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All-Russia is moving to liberation

 (only on youtube)
'come and see'
- a partisan film
 
Watch this film --- and you
will - finally - understand.
 
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=NJYOg4ORc1w
 
Some in the West are fond
of a loose use of words...
 
''stunning'', for example, to describe
a work of art... but believe me
when I say - this film about a
lad of 14 - made me laugh
and cry and - by the end 
- I was left stunned.

A recent attempt on youtube by an obvious
anti-Russian, to pour scorn on this film's
historical accuracy, tries to point out
that the nazi troops state they are
members of a unit that was not
there.. but can't bring himself
to see that they might have
been lying!


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St. John of Kronstadt Orthodox 
Spiritual Care Centre
 
THE TRAGEDY IN UKRAINE
 
"Veterans and children of the Great Patriotic War:
to the Government 
and people of Germany".
 
By events in Ukraine
 
Today, when the German government decided
to supply Ukraine with lethal weapons, the
world has changed — the silhouettes of a 
new world war are more than clearly 
outlined! And again - Germany! 
 
But there are honest people in Germany, anti-
fascists, and we hope that this Message will 
fall into their hands. People born between 
1927 and 1945 have the status of "war 
children" in Russia.
 
All those who survived that war can subscribe to this letter.
We think that actual signatures are not necessary, we
suggest that veterans
 
(or "war children") read them
this letter, 
independently or with someone's help, 
and send us (at the coordinates indicated
below) something like 
the following: 
 
Moscow, Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich, 90 years old, disabled
war veteran (or otherwise), Hero of 
the Soviet Union
(or Holder of the Order of 
Glory... or otherwise),
was repatriated to
 Germany during the war
(or otherwise). 

Or just the city, full name, and age. The 
main thing, is that they should be real 
people who are familiar with the text.
 
 
MESSAGE TEXT
 
We, the last veterans and all the peoples of 
Russia who survived that great and terrible
war, are now on the verge of death! Our 
time is already running out. For a huge 
part of our lives, we hoped we would 
come to the end of it, in peace - 
without all-destroying hatred! 
 
For the painfully long decades after the Second World War,
we overcame our righteous anger! I 
long for retribution for
the innumerable wounds, spiritual and physical, that we
still carry in our bodies and our hearts! And most of us
have forgiven! And not in a small way due to the fact
that Germany for many years has demonstrated its
repentance its understanding of what it has done!
And we have overcome, not only ourselves, but
also the voice of the blood of 
our barbarically
exterminated relatives! 
By whom?
Germans ...fascists! 
 
We have forgiven... following the laws of human
coexistence! So it was... until 2014. And then,
in 2014, when everything began in Ukraine... 
we looked with hope at Germany and at the
then Chancellor Angela Merkel. We couldn't
imagine that after all that the Germans did 
in Ukraine, after Babi Yar, after mountains 
of mutilated corpses, they would still look 
with lust at the Ukrainian fields that can 
feed Europe today! Or they, the Germans, 
who have covered the Crimea they once 
promised with blood, will still somehow
be interested in turning the Crimea 
into
an American and in general a NATO 
base, ideal for aggression against
Russia! 
Which would be clearly
aimed at a future war. 
 
After all, only fools do not understand the meaning and
goals of the entire coup in 
Ukraine... in the conditions
of which 
Russia behaved in the only possible way! But
the Germans are not fools! 
We the Russians, know for
certain 
your psychology, as "brothers in blood" - our
blood, which you 
"prudently" shed in rivers! 
 
We remember your "systematic methods of
population reduction"! Our population! Until
now, in different parts of our once united
Homeland, where the boot of German 
fascism was trodden, we find hidden 
mass graves of our civilians: in the 
Novgorod region, in the Kuban, in 
the Rostov region, in Karelia. In 
Belarus, in 2021... hundreds of 
civilian remains... were found 
in Brest    ...on the site of the 
Jewish ghetto the Trostenets 
concentration camp....  near 
Minsk terrible in its tragedy
revealed the secret of the 
remains... of thousands of 
tortured and killed people! 
 
We are talking about tens of thousands of newly
discovered victims of Nazism! This blood - still
cries out for revenge - and for decades the
memory of the barbarously destroyed 
Russian people, and monuments to 
Russian soldiers, liberators, have 
been desecrated with impunity! 
 
And the new Nazis are marching in the Baltic
States and Ukraine, in front of the entire
"civilized" world!  But in 2014, we were 
sincerely convinced -- that in this new 
Nazi demarche it's the Germans who 
will be our associates in preventing 
this meanness! 
 
We hoped that, guided by an elementary
conscience, the Germans would not 
participate..  in an obviously fascist 
anti-state coup in Ukraine! After all 
...the subsequent catastrophe of 
modern Ukraine was committed 
by direct descendants of those 
who were special bastards in 
the German army! Clearly, 
openly! 
 
Americans and Canadians have only hidden and preserved
this diabolical heritage, feeding this 
generation, but the
product of this evil... is Germany! Hitler's Germany! And
it was impossible for us to believe that it was 
Germany
that would again give a 
"road map" to these inhumans!
But 
we were wrong! Germany has once again allowed
these fascist geeks 
to enter the world! 
 
The support of modern Germany - in the face of
the new government of Ukraine-Bandera, the
heirs of the SS division " Galicia ", the thugs 
of the UPA OUN and all other abominations;
is simply unthinkable for us! This is beyond 
all that is human!  But you, Germany, have
already done it and continue to do it! You 
have, once again, set your sights on the 
Slavic world and these geeks are blood 
from the blood of German Nazism! And 
again to Russia! 
 
Only, even more despicable: inciting our closest
Ukrainian brothers against us! And you know it!
 
You know this as well as we do! You killed one
nation in that Great War! Yes, we are
one people! 
 
The truth is written and often spoken about 
by your own Steinmeier, who at the same 
time viciously took a direct part in the 
Kiev coup of 2014 — fascist in fact! 
 
This American may not be clear about some-
thing, but it's more than that, for you!  And 
after all, it was your vykormysh..  that got 
ready..  for their torchlight processions in 
Kiev! The living shadow of Nazi Germany 
is behind all this. It was only temporarily
covered up by sly diplomacy — "helmets 
instead of guns"! But that's it, "masks 
are reset"! Your supply of German 
weapons to Ukraine today, is 
natural, it is in the logic of 
your policy of recent 
decades. 
 
Today it is clearly pro-fascist! You have taken 
this step: German weapons will kill Russians 
again! Keep killing. During the years of the 
conflict in the Donbas, your professional 
killers have already killed Russians, at 
least by teaching them...  "how to kill 
correctly"! Only now -- it's even more 
despicable — you're teaching this to
- your blood brothers!  Donbass is on 
your conscience! Thousands of lives 
of its peaceful citizens --- again your 
handiwork! We do not care about the
role of Americans, in everything that
happens: there, is money-God!  We, 
veterans of that war, its children, 
are concerned about the role of 
the Germans! Because it is you 
who know -- exactly -- who the 
Ukrainian "national battalions" 
consist of --- and could have 
prevented and stopped, this 
new fascism !  But they did
not do it! And just by doing 
this — you are once again, 
responsible to history! 
 
And you are definitely participating -- in the 
preparation of Ukraine for war with Russia! 
You can't help but understand the purpose 
of everything that happened --- from the
unconstitutional coup in Kiev ....to the 
bloodshed in the Donbass!  But, in fact
this is preparation for the Third World 
War! And again, you are Germans... 
Germany!  We hear from the high 
German rostrum in Berlin today: 
"Russia will pay a high price"!!! 
This is the German Chancellor's 
speech! Unthinkable! We have 
already paid the price — 27 
million of our lives! Isn't that 
enough for you?! What price 
are you still talking about? 
 
There is no home --- in Russia, Ukraine and
Belarus - where "this price" isn't paid! And
there is no home in Germany, that did 
not participate in that terrible, bloody 
barbarism!  It's scary!  It's wild! And 
today, there are, already, more than 
13 thousand dead Russian people 
in the Donbass at the hands of 
the new Nazis! 
 
The German Chancellor's public mockery of the
Russian genocide in the Donbas is a crime in
itself! How much can the lessons of history 
be misunderstood and discredited!  The 
scariest story in the world! Do you want 
to be even scarier?! After all, this new 
"Dranch nach Oschtern" ..may lead to 
the fact that the 2nd Nuremberg trial 
over you will no longer be - there will 
simply be no humanity! You won't be 
here! But a special Ecumenical trial 
of you Germans is inevitable! Over 
all aggressors — but over you 
ESPECIALLY!
 
World justice will be served! And we, the last
veterans of that terrible war, are leaving this
world as witnesses!  Witnesses for the 
PROSECUTION! And today the victory 
will be ours, but those who died 
yesterday, or those of us who 
will die today, already bear 
witness to the role of the 
German people, in the 
history of the human 
world — a bloody 
history! 
 
German weapons are back in the 
hands of Nazi thugs! Please stop!
 
Email addresses for information:
veterans1945@yandex.ru
 
https://t.me/Veteran_v_stroy_chat
 
- Russian Union of Veterans: organizing
 questions and collecting signatures of
 veterans and children of the Second 
World War
 
 
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veteran1944@yandex.ru -questions about 
this publication to its author: Monk John
(Adlivankin), Deputy Head of the Russian
Orthodox Church. head and ved. 
specialist of the St. Peter's 
Orthodox Counseling Centre. 
St. John of Kronstadt.
 
 
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If you want the truth about
the massacre of civilans
in Bucha - paste the
web address below
into your browser

https://www.bitchute.com/video/6ZHPL2pTuadJ/



The video above is of a pro-Russia cavalcade
in Germany
 and it surely brought heart-
bursting tears!

More than 5,000 cars in just one campaign
in support of Russia --- in Germany !!!!!!!!!



NATO has a Scandinavian
'leftist' as its head - WHY?

THIS VIDEO EXPLAINS A LOT ABOUT TODAY'S NORWAY



REQUIEM
Efran and Poet's tribute to
 all those killed by wars

THE LATEST NEWS



Junior Lieutenant Morsky contributed
 to the capture of a fortified point of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine
February 4th, 9:30pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Guards Junior Lieutenant Ivan Morsky and his group, made 
their way to the rear of the positions of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine (AFU) to storm the enemy's fortified point. 
 
Russian intelligence - using a drone - revealed the location of 
military equipment and firing points, after which a group of 
Soldiers, taking the most favorable positions, attacked the 
enemy. Two machine-gun points of the Ukrainian Armed 
Forces were eliminated immediately, and the Ukrainian 
side, began to retreat. Morsky noticed seven soldiers 
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who tried to escape
 in a pickup truck. With a well-aimed shot from an 
RPG, the junior lieutenant destroyed the vehicle 
along with the enemy personnel.
 
As a result of the battle, the AFU stronghold was 
captured and cleared without loss of personnel
 in the Morskoy group.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the personal 
courage and professionalism of the Guards Senior 
Lieutenant Vladislav Leonov, who commanded a 
platoon of the anti-aircraft missile battery of
 the anti-aircraft division.
 
Leonov, as part of an air observation post, performed 
the task of covering Russian assault groups 
attacking enemy positions from enemy 
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
and
 FPV drones.
 
The senior lieutenant ---- noticed kamikaze drones and a 
heavy Baba Yaga-type unmanned vehicle approaching
the Russian positions... in time. Leonov gave the 
command to shoot down the enemy drones and 
opened fire himself. He managed to destroy 
two FPV drones with targeted shooting 
from an AK-74. The Baba Yaga UAV 
detonated in the air as a result of 
concentrated fire from several 
Russian servicemen.
 
Leonov also organized the evacuation to a safe place
for the further treatment of two wounded soldiers of 
the Russian Armed Forces, during the clash.
 
Earlier on February the 4th, the ministry said that the Guard 
corporal Alexander Putilov, as part of the artillery gun crew, 
participated in the destruction of a drone and an infantry 
fighting vehicle (BMP) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 
Prior to this, on February 3, the Russian Defense Ministry 
reported that Private Anatoly Bondarenko, as part of the 
unit, was performing a combat mission to defend his 
positions at an important tactical line. With help 
from a drone, Bondarenko detected the covert 
movement... of equipment of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine - in the direction of 
the positions of Russian troops and 
promptly transmitted coordinates
 to the artillery's calculations.
 
 
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which Russian 
President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, 
continues. The decision was made against the back-
ground of the worsening situation in the region.
 
 
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In Kharkiv, a shopping centre
employee --- filled a woman 
with gas from a canister
February 4th, 5:29pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
In Kharkiv, an employee of the territorial recruitment centre
(TCK, an analog of the military enlistment office in Ukraine) 
filled a woman with gas from a canister. This was reported 
on February the 4th, by the Ukrainian online publication 
"Country.na" in the Telegram channel.
 
It is noted that the incident could have occurred 
due to the fact that a local resident tried to 
protect a disabled person... from being 
forcibly taken away by employees 
of the shopping centre.
 
 
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Military commander Gavrish: with the 
capture of Constantinople, the 
Russian military will close
 the lid of the boiler
February 4th, 4:36pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
In Pokrovsky area of the special military operation, 
Russian fighters are advancing from two sides at
once, 
to the settlement of Constantinople in
Dnipropetrovsk region. As a result, the 
militants of the Kiev regime will find 
themselves in a cauldron, VGTRK 
military correspondent Alexey 
Gavrish said on 60 Minutes 
on Rossiya TV channel.
 
The advance to Constantinople, according to the military
 commander, comes from the north and from the south.
 
"I must say... that this city is of very important strategic 
importance for us, due to the fact that it is the capture
of this locality - that gives us the opportunity to close 
the lid of the boiler that goes from Udachnogo, Ulakli 
and just as far as Constantinople," Gavrish said.
 
"And those Ukrainian troops who are currently fighting in 
Dachne are already doomed in any case, because they 
do not have the opportunity to withdraw, they do not 
have the opportunity to rotate, they do not have the
 opportunity to replenish their reserves."
 
When Constantinople comes under the control of Russian troops, 
Ukrainian militants there will simply be doomed, he says. At the
 same time, the enemy, for whom this sector of the front seems 
to be as significant as possible, is transferring its main combat
 – trained reserves a little further north --- to the Pokrovsk area. 
 
There, near the village of Udachnoye west of Pokrovsk, 
counter battles have been going on for more than 
10 days, the military commander said.
 
"APU [The Armed Forces of Ukraine] initially threw in unprepared 
reserves. Now, as reported, they have withdrawn their main 
combat units from Kursk, and transferred them here. That 
is, they get their teeth into it [Udachnoye]," Gavrish said.
 
It is too early to talk about the timing of the capture of Pokrovsk, 
the military commander notes, but the Russian military is 
moving "opornik by opornik", maintaining the initiative, 
and the preponderance in artillery and aviation there 
- is simply obvious.
 
Earlier, military correspondent Vladimir Razin said that in 
the Pokrovsky direction, the Russian Army stops the
attempts of Ukrainian counterattacks around the 
clock --- and prevents attempts to transfer 
reserves to Pokrovsk.
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt.... to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region
February 4th, 10:30am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
---- continue the operation to neutralise AFU
 formations on the territory of Kursk region.
 
During the offensive, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted 
fire damage on formations of 1 heavy mechanised brigade, four 
mechanised brigades, 3 air assault brigades, 1 marine brigade,
and two territorial defence brigades of the AFU - close 
to
Bogdanovka, Viktorovka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Daryino,
Zazulevka, Zaoleshenka, Kazachya Loknya, Kositsa, 
Kubatkin, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Malaya 
Loknya.... Martynovka, Maryevka, Makhnovka, 
Melovoy, Mirny, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, 
Pogrebki, Pravda, Sverdlikovo, Staraya 
Sorochina, Sudzha, Cherkasskoye 
Porechnoye, and Yuzhny. 
 
In addition, three enemy counter-
attacks ------ were repelled.
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery - hit 
manpower and hardware of the AFU close to Basovka, 
Belovody, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, Ivolzhanskoye, 
Miropolye, and Obody, in Sumy region.
 
Over the course of the day, the AFU losses were up to 345 troops, 
2 tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle, one armoured personnel 
carrier, 27 armoured fighting vehicles, 1 Tunguska anti-
aircraft gun, 24 motor vehicles, 4 field artillery guns,
and two mortars.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction - the AFU 
losses amounted to more than 57,330 troops, 331 tanks, 244 
infantry fighting vehicles, 192 armoured personnel carriers, 
1,708 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,798 motor vehicles, 
406 artillery guns, 45 MLRS launchers --- including 13
of
 HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the US, 17 anti-
aircraft missile launchers, eight transport-loading 
vehicles, 106 EW stations, 15 counter-battery 
warfare radars, five air defence radars, 33 
units of engineering and other materiel, 
including 14 counterobstacle vehicles, 
one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, 9 
armoured recovery vehicles, and
command post vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise the AFU units,
 is in progress.
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation
February 4th, 9:30am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,
 continue the special military operation.
 
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces 
defeated units of two territorial defence brigades near 
Volchansk (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses were up to 35 troops, one armoured 
fighting vehicle, and four motor vehicles. Four field
 artillery guns and one electronic warfare station
 were neutralised.
 
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical 
situation. Russian troops hit manpower and hardware of 
2 mechanised brigades, 1 assault brigade, one airborne 
brigade of the AFU, and 2 territorial defence brigades 
near... Kupyansk, Peschanoye, Novomlynsk, Novaya 
Kruglyakovka, Zapadnoye, Zagoruykovka, Zeleny 
Gai (Kharkov region), Nevskoye (Lugansk 
People's Republic), Yampolovka, and 
Yampol (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses were more than 290 troops, one tank, three 
armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M113 
armoured personnel carriers, and 14 motor vehicles. Nine
 field artillery guns including three Western-made ones 
and three ammunition depots - were eliminated.
 
Units of the Yug Group of Forces --- took more advantageous lines 
and positions. Russian troops inflicted fire damage on formations 
of three mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade of the AFU, 
one formation of the International Legion ---- and two territorial 
defence brigades near Dyleyevka, Konstantinovka, Zelenovka, 
Ivano-Daryevka, Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Yantarnoye, Chasov 
Yar, and Dachnoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses were up to 260 troops, one armoured fighting 
vehicle, four motor vehicles, and four field artillery guns 
including three NATO-manufactured ones. Two 
ammunition depots and three electronic 
warfare stations - were eliminated.
 
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces --- continued active offensive 
operations. Russian troops eliminated manpower and hardware 
of 5 mechanised brigades, one motorised brigade, one jaeger 
brigade of the AFU, one marine brigade, one National Guard 
brigade --- and the Lyut Brigade of the National Police of 
Ukraine near Krasnoarmeysk, Udachnoye, Sergeyevka, 
Dzerzhinsk, Druzhba, Novoaleksandrovka, Baranovka, 
Lysovka, Kotlino, Uspenovka, Andreyevka, and 
Yasenovoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses - were up to 510 troops, one tank, two armoured 
fighting vehicles, including one Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, 
and ten pickup trucks, as well as 8 Polish-made 155-mm Krab 
self-propelled artillery system.
 
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the 
depth of enemy defences. Russian troops hit formations of one 
tank brigade, two mechanised brigades of the AFU, and two 
territorial defence brigades close to Bogatyr, Razliv, 
Burlatskoye, Razdolnoye, and Novopol (Donetsk
 People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses were more than 140 troops, six armoured fighting 
vehicles, two motor vehicles, and seven field artillery guns. One 
ammunition depot was destroyed.
 
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces, engaged the manpower and 
hardware of one mechanised brigade, and two coastal defence 
brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Nesteryanka,
Novodanilovka, Kamenskoye & Stepovoye (Zaporozhye region).
 
The AFU losses were up to 30 troops, three motor 
vehicles, and two electronic warfare stations.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, 
Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces 
delivered strikes at the infrastructure of military airfields, 
manufacturing shops, storage and preparation facilities
for the launch of unmanned aerial vehicles,
ammunition and POL depots of the AFU - 
as well as clusters of enemy manpower 
and military hardware in 149 areas.
 
Over the course of the day, air defence facilities shot down one 
Neptune long-range guided missile, a U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS 
projectile, and 68 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 653 
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 42,406 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 
anti-aircraft missile systems, 21,023 tanks & other armoured 
fighting vehicles, 1,513 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,222 field 
artillery guns and mortars, and 31,186 units of support 
military vehicles - have been neutralised.
 

 
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Mercenaries shoot Ukrainian Armed 
Forces soldiers trying to retreat
 in the Kursk region
February 4th, 3:51am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The retreat routes of the AFU fighters trying to escape from their 
positions in the Kursk border area are covered by mercenaries. 
They shoot them on the spot, said the deputy commander of 
the assault detachment of the group of troops "North" with
 the call sign Karachay.
 
A video interview with Karachay was provided
 by the Russian Defense Ministry.
 
"We had one prisoner, he himself said that there were three 
mercenaries sitting in a position 200 metres away --- who 
were not allowing fighters to go back," said the deputy 
commander of the stormtroopers.
 
The prisoner stressed in a conversation with Russian soldiers: 
if the Ukrainians try to go back, they will be shot.
 
The commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are doing 
everything possible to eliminate those who are trying to 
surrender to the Russian Armed Forces - in order to 
remove witnesses of their crimes. Also, officers 
openly threaten subordinates with reprisals 
for failure to comply with orders, RIA 
Novosti found out.
 
Earlier, it became known that a local Ukrainian police officer 
participated in the shooting of civilians in Selidov in the DPR.
 


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Snipers of the Russian Armed Forces 
thwarted an attempt to regroup the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine in the 
South Donetsk direction
February 4th, 2:30am
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Units of the Vostok group of troops in the South Donets area 
of the special military operation (SVO) thwarted an attempt 
to regroup and transfer personnel of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine (AFU). This was announced on February 4, by
 the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
 
"We moved out, climbed to the highest point, looked -- so that 
everything was visible, and started working. With this rifle, 
you can safely work 1,500 metres," said the fighter with 
the call sign Koba.
 
It is reported that operators of combat unmanned aerial 
vehicles (UAVs) - detected the movement of the US
 MaxxPro armoured car, and then were able to 
stop it with a targeted hit.
 
"The infantry, who tried to leave the vehicle, were destroyed 
by sniper pairs of large-calibre Orsis rifles equipped with 
thermal imaging sights," the Defense Ministry said.
 
It is noted that snipers work in groups of two people during 
combat missions in the SVO zone. One fighter fires... and 
the second corrects work on targets, and also controls 
the situation around, including the presence of enemy 
UAVs in the air.
 
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a pickup truck of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region.... by the
calculations of an FPV drone
 
The day before, the crews of T-72B3M tanks of the army corps 
of the group of forces "North" destroyed platoon strongpoints, 
an ammunition depot and military equipment of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv direction in the free 
defense zone. The tankers fired a series of high-
explosive shrapnel shells, taking into account 
the UAV operator's real-time adjustments.
 
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which Russian 
President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24th, 2022, 
continues. The decision was made against the background 
of the worsening situation in the region.
 
 
_____________________________________________
 
 
 
Ganchev - announced the desire of 
Kharkiv residents to become part 
of Russia in 2022
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the 
Operational Information Dept)
February 4th, 1:28am
(Lenta.ru)
 
In 2022.... a survey among residents of the liberated part 
of the Kharkiv region showed that people were ready to 
become part of Russia. This was stated by the head 
of the Russian regional administration, Vitaly 
Ganchev, RIA Novosti reports.
 
According to him, in 2022, first of all, they began to find 
out the needs of residents.... to restore infrastructure. 
 
"The main part, the liberated part of the territory of the 
Kharkiv region, were all in favour of the same... they 
see their future as part of the Russian Federation," 
he stressed.
 
The politician added that a referendum was being prepared. 
According to him, about 70,000 Kharkiv residents have 
left - for Russia.
 
Earlier, Ganchev said that the Kharkiv region is of 
strategic and political importance for Russia -
and will be liberated.
 
 
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In Ukraine, the Ukrainian Armed 
Forces reported a retreat ----
to the west of Kurakhovo
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the 
Operational Information Dept)
February 4th, 12:01am
(Lenta.ru)
 
Ukrainian military commander Bohdan Miroshnikov said 
that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) are retreating 
to the west of Kurakhovo, reports "Country.na".
 
"There is a decline in the Constantinople direction: there 
will be not very pleasant news. Due to the huge 
advantage (of the Russian Federation) in 
personnel, it is necessary to withdraw. 
The factor of drones on optical fibre
 is becoming more and more 
significant in that area," 
the journalist said.
 
A soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the call sign 
Muchnoy confirmed information that Russian troops are 
storming the approaches to Constantinople, trying to 
expand the area and take Ukrainian units into an 
operational encirclement.
 
Earlier, the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin said that the main 
battles in Kurakhovsky direction of the front in the region -
are concentrated in the area of the village of Dachnoye, 
which is located in the west of Kurakhovo city.
 


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Guards Corporal Putilov helped 
evacuate a wounded comrade
February 3rd, 9:30pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Guard Lance Corporal Alexander Putilov participated in the 
destruction of an unmanned aerial vehicle and an infantry
 fighting vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) as 
part of an artillery gun crew. 
 
The crew received orders to destroy a camouflaged enemy 
infantry fighting vehicle firing at Russian positions. When 
Putilov, following the instructions of the commander, 
prepared ammunition and took the place of the 
shooter, he noticed that an enemy unmanned 
aerial vehicle (UAV) was approaching the 
howitzer. The Ukrainian Armed Forces 
attacked the position of the Russian 
gunners, several servicemen were 
shell-shocked & one of them was 
seriously wounded.
 
Putilov was also injured, but continued to conduct targeted 
fire on the Ukrainian drone and shot it down. Then the
gunners aimed the gun ----- at the coordinates of the 
enemy's BMP and struck. The car was destroyed.
 
Meanwhile, an evacuation vehicle was waiting nearby. 
Putilov personally transferred the wounded comrade 
to the vehicle.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the dedication and 
courage of the Guard junior Sergeant Vitaly Razumov, who 
carried out a combat mission to capture an AFU 
stronghold as part of an assault group.
 
The stormtroopers were moving stealthily towards the target 
when Ukrainian intelligence discovered their location. 
Razumov quickly found his bearings and took a 
favorable firing position, immediately 
eliminating the AFU shooter, but 
received a bullet wound in 
the leg. 
 
Despite the injury, Razumov continued to fight the enemy and 
helped the assault group enter the flank of the AFU defense.
 
As a result, Russian attack aircraft managed to break into enemy 
trenches and eliminate three Ukrainian soldiers. The rest of the 
enemy personnel retreated, leaving the stronghold. Razumov, 
along with his colleagues, held the defense of opornik until 
reinforcements arrived.
 
Earlier on February 3rd, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that
 Private Anatoly Bondarenko, as part of the unit, was performing a 
combat mission to defend his positions at an important tactical 
line. With the help of a drone, Bondarenko detected the covert 
movement of equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 
the direction of the positions of Russian troops and 
promptly transmitted the coordinates to 
artillery calculations.
 
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which Russian 
President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, 
continues. The decision was made against the 
background of the worsening situation 
in the region.


 
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The Ukrainian, who had been hiding 
in a car for two days, was taken to
 the military enlistment office
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the 
Operational Information Dept)
February 3rd, 8:37pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Police officers in Odessa, in southern Ukraine, delivered
a Ukrainian man to the military enlistment office, who 
did not leave his car for two days ---- to avoid 
mobilization. This is reported by TASS.
 
According to the agency -- the man was first taken to the
hospital and then transferred to the military enlistment 
office. However --- it is not specified whether he 
voluntarily agreed to leave the car in which 
he had stayed --- for more than a day.
 
The police also confirmed that they stopped the car because 
of a traffic violation on February 2. As a result of checking
 the documents, it turned out that the driver is wanted as 
evading mobilization. When the man was offered to go 
to the military enlistment office, he locked himself
 in the car.
 
 
 
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US resumed arms shipments to Ukraine 
...after a suspension in recent days
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the 
Operational Information Dept)
February 3rd, 8:29pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
The United States last weekend resumed arms 
shipments to Ukraine after their being 
suspended in recent days, Reuters
 reports, citing sources.
 
The source noted that deliveries resumed after 
the White House abandoned its initial 
assessment and stopped 
all aid to Ukraine.
 
According to one U.S. official, there are factions 
within the administration that disagree on the 
extent to which the United States should 
continue to help Kiev with weapons 
from US stockpiles.
 
Earlier, Reuters reported - that the administration of 
former US President Joe Biden deliberately slowed
down military assistance to Ukraine in its last year 
in power ------ due to fears of an escalation of the 
conflict with Russia.
 
 
 
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In the DPR, four civilians were injured 
as a result of attacks by the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces
February 3rd, 7:18pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
As a result of attacks on the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) 
by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, four civilians were injured. 
This was announced on February 3, by the head of the 
region, Denis Pushilin.
 
"In the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, when an explosive object 
was dropped from a VFU drone onto a passenger car, a man 
born in 1976 received moderate injuries," the head of the 
DPR wrote in the Telegram channel.
 
Also in the Central City district of Horlivka, after a drone attack on 
a car, a woman born in 1980 and a man born in 1947 were injured.
 
In addition, a woman born in 1969 was injured in Kurakhovo 
due to the use of barrel artillery. It is noted that the victims 
are provided with the necessary medical care.
 
In addition - four civilian infrastructure facilities were reported 
damaged in the Nikitovsky (Palace of Culture, central sewage 
treatment plants) and Central City (shop, enterprise of the 
State Unitary Enterprise DPR "Water of Donbass") 
districts of Horlivka.
 
Also on Monday, it was reported that two men were injured -- as a 
result of an attack by an APU drone in the village of Tserkovny in 
the Belgorod region. Later, the governor of the region,
Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that the number of 
victims had increased to three.
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are firing daily at the territories 
of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as 
Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, against the background 
of a special operation to protect the Donbass, which 
Russia announced on February the 24th, 2022.
 


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Adviser to the head of the DPR Kimakovsky: 
The Armed Forces of Ukraine...... fill 
even children's toys with mines
February 3rd, 3:44pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Kiev regime has been actively using improvised invisible 
mines since the beginning of the CDF, thereby endangering
the lives of the civilian population. This - was stated in an 
interview with the TV channel "Russia 24" adviser to the 
head of the Donetsk People's Republic Igor Kimakovsky.
 
Explosive devices -- primarily -- pose an 
increased danger to untrained civilians.
 
"There are more and more such moments, when the enemy uses 
improvised explosive devices in this war. First of all, this means 
that the enemy is ruthless not only in relation to our military, 
because our military is largely trained – they undergo 
engineering training and understand what needs to 
be done in conditions when you are on an assault 
or anchoring in a populated area. But many 
civilians, especially children, because 
they often mine toys as well – are 
simply not prepared for this," 
says Kimakovsky.
 
Touching familiar objects - can be fatal. The 
militants even make traps out of drink cans.
 
"I met with the first such devices in Mariupol at Azovstal, where in 
the catacombs, for example, they stretched fishing lines, almost 
invisible.. at the level of helmets and shoes. And I - once - even 
almost --- caught my helmet on one of these objects. They
could mine RPGs (hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers
-Ed's note) 
----- it stands near the wall at an angle, you
touch it, there is an 
explosion. Or a bulletproof vest,
for example, that is in good 
condition -- you take it,
it is - blown up. One of the first lessons 
I received
from the sappers — in no case can you use cans 
from our energy drinks -- which are sold on our
territory. 
I don't know..... how they get to the
enemy, but as soon 
as you kick a can that
lies on the road, you 
consider empty ---
an anti-personnel improvised 
mine is
immediately detonated," said the 
adviser to the head of the DPR.
 
Kimakovsky also revealed the composition of improvised mines: 
the metal profile is filled with an explosive substance.
The mine has a special magnetic fuse that reacts 
to a large volume of metal. It is triggered, if, 
for example, a tank passes nearby.
 
 
 
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Ganchev: Kharkiv region 
certain to be liberated
February 3rd, 2:06pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Kharkiv region will certainly be liberated. It has serious 
strategic and political significance for Russia. This was 
stated by the head of the Russian regional 
administration, Vitaly Ganchev.
 
He stressed that the liberation of the Kharkiv region will 
reduce the number of attacks on the Belgorod region 
and the Luhansk Republic.
 
"I am sure that the Kharkiv region will still be liberated,"
 Ganchev said in a conversation with RIA Novosti.
 
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the country 
needs a "sanitary zone" where there will be no troops of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine and from where they will not be 
able to launch attacks. In a number of areas of the 
Kharkiv front, there are already significant 
dynamics, the head of the Russian 
regional administration noted.
 
Earlier on February 1, Ganchev said that Russian troops 
control about 70 settlements in the Kharkiv region. 
These include both small villages - and large 
cities, such as Volchansk.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt.... to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region
February 3rd, 11:15am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue 
the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the 
territory of Kursk region.
 
During the offensive, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted 
fire damage on formations of 7 mechanised brigades, four air 
assault brigades, and one territorial defence brigade of the 
AFU near Viktorovka, Gogolevka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, 
Daryino, Zazulevka, Zaoleshenka, Kazachya Loknya, 
Kolmakov, Kositsa, Kubatkin, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, 
Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Maryevka, 
Makhnovka, Melovoy, Mirny, Nikolsky, Novaya 
Sorochina, Pogrebki, Rubanshchina, 
Sverdlikovo, Staraya Sorochina, 
Sudzha, Cherkasskoye 
Porechnoye....... 
and Yuzhny.
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery hit 
the manpower and hardware of the AFU close to 
Barvinkovo, Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, 
Zhuravka as well as Miropolye in 
Sumy region.
 
During the day, the enemy lost up to 210 troops, two infantry 
fighting vehicles, two armoured personnel carriers, nine 
armoured fighting vehicles, nine motor vehicles, four 
field artillery guns, four mortars, and one 
ammunition depot.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses 
amounted to more than 56,980 troops, 329 tanks, 243 infantry 
fighting vehicles, 191 armoured personnel carriers, 1,681
 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,774 motor vehicles, 402 
artillery guns, 45 MLRS launchers, including 13 of 
HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the US, 16 anti
-aircraft missile launchers, 8 transport-loading 
vehicles, 106 EW stations, 15 counter-battery 
warfare radars, five air defence radars, 33 
units of engineering and other materiel - 
including 14 counterobstacle vehicles, 
one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, nine 
armoured recovery vehicles, and 
one command post vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise the AFU units,
 is in progress.
 
 
 
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Military commander Gavrish: 
Vodiane Vtoroye village... in 
the DPR ---- has completely 
come under the control of
Russia's Armed Forces
February 3rd, 10:18am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops took control of Vodiane Vtoroye village 
in the DPR. This was reported on the program 
"60 minutes" by military correspondent 
Alexey Gavrish.
 
He also said, that the ranks of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine were again replenished with detachments 
of untrained fighters.
 
"I must say that we have made progress in the area of Uspenovka, 
and we are also making progress in the centre of the village in 
Udachny, despite all the efforts of the enemy, despite his 
reinforcements. We also move along the railway track 
to Pokrovsk itself --- from Kotlino. On the eastern 
coverage, one of the settlements, the village 
of Vodiane Vtoroe, came completely under 
our control," the military correspondent 
said on the air.
 
According to Gavrish... new units of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine are being transferred to the Pokrovsk area.
 
"In fact, now the vector of attention of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine is shifting to Pokrovsk more and more. This is 
evidenced by the fact that more and more combat 
units are being transferred there. But they still 
can't stop our advance," Gavrish said.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation 
February 3rd, 9:25am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,
continue the special military operation.
 
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted 
fire damage on formations of two territorial defence brigades
 close to Udy and Okhrimovka (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 35 troops
 and three field artillery guns.
 
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. 
Manpower and hardware of one tank brigade, three mechanised 
brigades, one jaeger brigade, one assault brigade, one airborne 
brigade of the AFU, and 1 territorial defence brigade were hit 
close to Borovaya, Kupyansk, Zagoruykovka, Zeleny Gai 
(Kharkov region), Novoyegorovka (Lugansk People's 
Republic) and Yampol (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 300 troops, one U.S.-made 
M113 armoured personnel carrier, seven pickup trucks, and
 five field artillery guns, to include two --- Western-made.
 One Anklav electronic warfare station was eliminated.
 
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines 
and positions. Formations of four mechanised brigades, one 
airmobile brigade of the AFU, one marine brigade, and two 
territorial defence brigades suffered losses, by Dronovka, 
Verkhnekamenskoye, Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Predtechino, 
Chasov Yar, Dachnoye, and Ulakly (Donetsk 
People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 220 troops, one armoured 
fighting vehicle, and four motor vehicles. Two ammunition
 depots were destroyed.
 
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces - continued to engage in active 
offensive operations. Manpower and hardware of six mechanised 
brigades, 1 motorised infantry brigade, one jaeger brigade of the 
AFU, one marine brigade, two national guard brigades, and the 
Lyut Assault Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine were 
hit near Dzerzhinsk, Lysovka, Kotlino, Dimitrov, Uspenovka, 
Yasenovoye, and Andreyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 520 troops, 5 armoured 
fighting vehicles, to include a Swedish-made Viking
armoured personnel carrier, 3 motor vehicles,
and 2 artillery guns.
 
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the
 depth of the enemy's defences. Formations of one tank brigade, 
2 mechanised brigades of the AFU, and 3 territorial defence
brigades suffered losses near Razdolnoye, Burlatskoye, 
Novoselka, Vesyoloye, Novopol, and Dneproenergiya 
(Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses -- amounted to more than 150 troops, three
armoured fighting vehicles, and four field artillery guns, to
 include one French-made 155-mm Caesar self-propelled 
artillery system. One electronic warfare station.... 
was eliminated.
 
The Dnepr Group of Forces have engaged personnel and 
hardware of one mechanised brigade, 1 infantry brigade 
---- and three coastal defence brigades of the AFU near 
Malye Shcherbaki (Zaporozhye region), Dneprovskoye, 
and Otradokamenka (Kherson region).
 
The AFU losses were up to 70 troops, eight motor vehicles, 
and two field artillery guns. One ammunition depot was 
wiped out.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike drones, Missile Troops and 
Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged the 
power facility that support the actions of the AFU, the
 infrastructure of military airfields, UAV workshops, 
depots, and launch sites as well as clusters of 
enemy manpower and hardware in 146 areas.
 
Fighter Aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot 
down one Su-27 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force.
 
Air defence systems shot down four French-made Hammer 
guided aerial bombs, seven U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS 
projectiles, and 199 fixed-wing unmanned aerial 
vehicles, with 124 of them out of the special 
military operation area.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 653 
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 42,338 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 
anti-aircraft missile systems, 21,007 tanks and other armoured 
fighting vehicles, 1,513 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,190 field 
artillery guns and mortars, and 31,149 units of support 
military vehicles - have been neutralised.
 
 
 
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The Russian Defense Ministry announced that 
the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a 
missile attack on a boarding school
 in Sudzha
February 1st, 10:08pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that on February 1, the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) committed another war crime 
by launching a targeted missile attack on a boarding school 
in the town of Sudzha, Kursk region.
 
"On February 1, the Ukrainian Armed Forces committed another 
war crime by launching a targeted missile attack on a boarding 
school in Sudzha city. The launch of enemy missiles from the 
Sumy region was recorded by Russian air defense systems," 
the Telegram channel says.
 
According to the ministry, this provocation by the Kiev regime 
was aimed at distracting world public opinion from the 
atrocities committed by Ukrainian militants -- in the 
village of Russkoye Porechnoye, in Kursk region.
 
"The strike of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on a civilian object 
once again demonstrated the terrorist, inhuman nature of 
those who are in power in Kiev," the Defense 
Ministry stressed.
 
Acting Governor of the Kursk region Alexander Khinshtein 
clarified that there is no reliable information about the 
number of victims yet.
 
The news item is being updated
 
 
 
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The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
 told about the exploits of Russian servicemen 
in the free defense zone
February 1st, 9pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The ministry noted that a group of commandos under the 
command of Sergeant Serhiy Grishin received a combat 
mission to capture a stronghold of militants of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the area of 
one of the settlements.
 
Grishin determined the ways of covert approach to the enemy's
position, after which the sergeant independently opened the 
locations of observation posts, and the group launched an 
offensive. The sergeant, acting boldly and decisively, led 
the shooting battle. 
 
Unable to withstand the active pressure of Russian commandos, 
the Ukrainian militants retreated. Grishin's group occupied
the point and organized the defense of the occupied
positions.
 
Thanks to Grishin's courage, the group completed the assigned 
tasks to capture the enemy stronghold, while avoiding losses. 

This allowed the Russian military to continue an active 
offensive deep into the defense of the AFU militants 
and liberate the nearby village.
 
In addition, the Defense Ministry pointed out the actions of 
Sergeant Alexey Lomakov, who, as part of the logistics 
support brigade ---- performed tasks to deliver 
ammunition and food ---- to the positions of 
Russian troops located in the immediate 
vicinity of the contact line.
 
At the time of the next transportation, Lomakov's car was 
attacked by an FPV drone. The serviceman managed to 
divert the car... from the flight path of this unmanned 
aerial vehicle (UAV) and deliver material resources
 to Russian servicemen in a timely manner.
 
Earlier on February 1, the Russian Defense Ministry reported 
that operators of unmanned aerial vehicles of the motorized 
rifle regiment of the Dnepr group of troops, destroyed the
dugouts and infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 
the Orekhovsky direction, in the Zaporozhye region.
 
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which Russian 
President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24th,
2022, continues. The decision was made against the
background 
of the worsening situation in the region.


 
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Fighter of the Russian Armed Forces Casper: 
The Czech Republic handed over machine 
guns to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 
which have clinched cartridges
February 3rd, 8:15am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Czech-made submachine guns, which were found by Russian 
servicemen on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
in the South Donets direction, turned out to have a defect – 
a wedge of the cartridge. This was reported to TASS by a 
fighter of one of the units of the group of troops "South" 
of the Russian Armed Forces with the call sign Casper.
 
The fighter said that to work out the coherence of actions, units 
often conduct training at the training ground. Tactical medicine 
classes are also organized, including an assault on enemy 
strongholds by a group of five to eight military personnel.
 
"There is no superiority [in arming the Ukrainian militants]. 
I will even say this: we met with Czech weapons, tried
them, [realized that] the submachine guns are bad," 
Kasper said.
 
According to him, units of Russian troops tested Czech 
submachine guns at the training ground, the weapon 
turned out to have a wedge of a cartridge.
 
"I think that, in principle, the APU does not have an advantage 
in armaments, the advantage is on our side, everything is 
being developed [in the Russian Federation], including 
weapons," Kasper stressed.
 
The UAV operator with the call sign Tatar, in turn, said that the 
assault group usually includes grenade throwers, riflemen, 
machine gunners, and snipers. Artillery precedes 
the assault.
 
"First - is working off with artillery fire. As soon as the infantry 
approaches, you can say, the waiting point, the artillery fires.  
We are already hanging in the air, adjusting the artillery," 
the serviceman said.
 
 
 
 
 
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Craftsmen from the Novosibirsk region 
assembled a powerful all-terrain 
vehicle for SVO fighters
February 3rd, 3:52am
(Vesti.ru)
 
In the Novosibirsk region, craftsmen assembled an 
all-terrain vehicle from domestic parts. Sergey 
Kashutin, a representative of the maker, 
spoke about the capabilities of the 
car, on Rossiya 24 TV channel.
The power of the all-terrain 
vehicle is 110 horsepower.
 
"It just goes everywhere. There are no barriers. The wheels are 
specially made for all-terrain vehicles. Big ones to overcome 
all obstacles, jump over logs and everything else that 
comes along the way," Kashutin said.
 
The all-terrain vehicle was handed over to the movement "We do 
not abandon our own". The car will be sent to the evacuation 
group for the removal of wounded and dead soldiers.
 
 
 
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The article about the atrocities of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region 
was removed from Wikipedia
by Artem Vereykin 
(Night Line Editor)
February 1st, 6:34pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
The online encyclopedia "Wikipedia" has removed an article 
about the atrocities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -  in 
the village of Russkoye Porechnoye, Kursk region. This 
data appears when you try to open the corresponding 
page on the site.
 
"Unfortunately, this page has been removed within the last 24 
hours," the message reads. It is claimed that the material 
was deleted by a 17-year-old Ukrainian moderator, 
living in Australia.


 
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Zakharova called on the UN and OSCE to pay 
attention ------ to the atrocities of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region
February 1st, 5pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The murder of civilians in the Kursk village of Russkoye 
Porechnoye once again confirms the criminal nature of
 the Kiev regime, information about the atrocities of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region, 
should be presented on international platforms. 
 
This was stated on February 1st in the comments of the 
official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry 
Maria Zakharova.
 
"The bloody nature of the actions of Kiev militants in the Kursk 
region should be widely presented on international platforms: 
the UN, OSCE and their specialized structures, recorded by 
representatives of the International Committee of the
Red 
Cross, and will be the subject of proceedings 
by international human rights mechanisms ---
including non-governmental organizations,"
 the ministry's website says.
 
According to her, the Russian side has a lot of evidence of 
crimes committed by the Kiev regime in the Kursk region.
 
"Ordered to kill people --- if they speak Russian"
 
The commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk 
region staged a genocide based on the language principle, 
experts emphasize
 
On January 18th, the North group of troops published footage of
 the bodies of civilians found in basements in Russky Porechny. 
A criminal case on terrorism was opened on the fact of the 
murder (paragraph " b " of Part 3 of Article 205 of the 
Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Russian 
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova 
said that the guilty Ukrainian militants --- will 
be punished.
 
Later, it was reported that the bodies of the civilians found by 
the dead, had traces of gunshot wounds and electric burns. 
On January 31st, the Investigative Committee of Russia 
identified five Ukrainian militants who were involved 
in mass murders and rapes --- in this village. The 
Russian side promised to transfer information 
about the crimes of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine to the Office of the United 
Nations High Commissioner for 
Human Rights (OHCHR).
 
On February 1, the representative of the UN Secretary-
General, Stephane Dujarric, spoke out against the 
murders in the Kursk village.
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Russian positions in
 the border areas of the Kursk region on August 6th, 2024. 
The situation in the region was recognized as a federal 
emergency. The elimination of Ukrainian militants 
who invaded Russian territory, is underway.
 
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which Russian 
President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, 
continues. The decision was made against the 
background of the worsening situation in
 the region.


 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt.... to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region
February 1st, 12:30pm
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
continue the operation --- to neutralise AFU 
formations on the territory of Kursk region.
 
During the offensive, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted 
fire damage on units of one heavy mechanised brigade, four 
mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, one marine
brigade, and 3 territorial defence brigades of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine close to Gogolevka, Goncharovka, 
Guyevo, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malay Loknya, 
Makhnovka, Mirny, Nikolayevka, Nikolsky, 
Novaya Sorochina, and Sverdlikovo. 
Two counter-attacks launched 
by enemy units were repelled.
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and artillery strikes 
engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Zamostye, 
Kazachya Loknya, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Martynovka, 
Makhnovka, Melovoy, Nikolsky, Oleshnya, Staraya 
Sorochina, Sudzha, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, 
Yuzhny as well as Basovka, Belovody, 
Vesyolovka, Zhuravka, and Obody 
in Sumy region.
 
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses have amounted to more 
than 155 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, 15 motor 
vehicles, and one field artillery gun.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses 
amounted to more than 56,570 troops, 327 tanks, 241 infantry 
fighting vehicles, 185 armoured personnel carriers, 1,663 
armoured fighting vehicles, 1,750 motor vehicles, 397 
artillery guns, 45 MLRS launchers, including 13 of 
HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the US, 16 anti
-aircraft missile launchers, & transport-loading 
vehicles, 106 EW stations, 15 counter-battery 
warfare radars, five air defence radars, 33 
units of engineering and other materiel, 
including 14 counterobstacle vehicles, 
one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, nine 
armoured recovery vehicles, and one
 command post vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise the AFU units,
 is in progress.
 
 
 
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Military commissar shot dead 
in Poltava region of Ukraine
February 1st, 10:26am
(Izvestia.ru)
 
In the Poltava region of Ukraine, an unknown person shot and 
killed an employee of the territorial recruitment centre (TCK, 
analogous to the military enlistment office) while escorting 
military personnel to the training centre. This was 
announced on February 1 by the command of 
the ground Forces of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine (AFU) in Telegram.
 
"On February 1st, 2025, a blatant case occurred at a gas station in 
the city of Pyryatyn - while escorting military service personnel to 
the 199th training centre --- an armed attack on a serviceman of 
the Poltava regional territorial recruitment and social support 
centre," the report says.
 
It is specified that the attacker threatened the military commissar 
with a gun and demanded he give up his service weapon. Having 
been refused, the attacker fired. The employee of the shopping
 centre died from a serious injury at the scene.
 
"After the attack, the attacker took possession of a soldier's 
automatic rifle and disappeared along with one of the 
conscripted servicemen. The Command -- of the 
Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
strongly condemns this egregious crime and 
demands the strictest punishment for those
 responsible. The murder of a serviceman 
in the line of duty is a serious crime
that 
should be investigated ---
as soon as 
possible," the
military stressed.
 
Conflicts between citizens and employees of shopping centres 
in Ukraine occur regularly. So, on January 13, the Khmelnitsky 
court found guilty a man who attacked the employees of the 
shopping centre with a gas pistol. He was sentenced to 
one year and six months' probation.
 
Before that, on January 3, in the Poltava region, employees of 
the shopping centre broke a man's leg. Police have launched 
an investigation into the incident. The military enlistment 
office declined to comment on the situation. And in 
November, in the Kiev region, a military 
commissar opened fire on a man 
running away from him.
 
In April, President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, whose term 
of office expired on May 20 last year, signed a law on tougher 
mobilization. In particular, he lowered the age of mobilization 
from 27 to 25 years and signed a law on the creation of an 
electronic register of those liable for military service, 
which combines information about personal data of 
Ukrainians, including details of domestic and 
foreign passports. There are no provisions 
on demobilization in the documents.
 
Martial law has been in effect in the country since February 
2022. At the same time, Zelensky signed a decree on 
general mobilization. Later, the Verkhovna Rada 
repeatedly extended its validity. Most men 
between the ages of 18 and 60 ------ are 
prohibited from leaving the country.
 
The number of men of military age who have taken refuge
 in Europe from mobilization --- has exceeded one million.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation
February 1st, 9:30am
 
Last night -- the Russian Armed Forces carried out a long-range 
high-precision strike against the gas and energy infrastructure
that ensured the operation of Ukrainian defence industry 
enterprises. The goals of the strike were achieved. 
All the assigned targets were engaged.
 
 In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces defeated 
units of one motorised infantry brigade, one air assault brigade, 
and one National Guard brigade of the AFU close to Liptsy 
and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses were up to 30 troops, three motor 
vehicles, and three field artillery guns.
 
 Units of the Zapad Group of Forces ----- improved the tactical 
situation. Russian troops inflicted fire damage on manpower 
and hardware of two mechanised brigades of the AFU, one 
territorial defence brigade, and the Lyut Brigade of the 
National Police of Ukraine near Zagoruykovka, 
Peschanoye, Novaya Kruglyakovka (Kharkov 
region), Novolyubovka (Lugansk People's 
Republic) plus Grigorovka, Yampol, and
Seversk (Donetsk People's Republic)
 
The AFU losses were up to 320 troops, one armoured fighting
 vehicle, 15 pickup trucks, and one field artillery gun. Four 
ammunition depots and two electronic warfare stations 
were destroyed.
 
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines 
and positions. Russian troops --- hit units of three mechanised 
brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, and two territorial 
defence brigades close to Ulakly, Dileyevka, Belogorovka, 
Verkhnekamenskoye, Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Zelenovka, 
and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses were up to 220 troops, five pickup 
trucks, and two NATO-made field artillery guns. 
Four AFU field ammunition depots ---
 were destroyed.
 
The Tsentr Group of Forces' units --- continued active offensive 
actions, and liberated Krymskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
Russian troops eliminated manpower and hardware of four 
mechanised brigades, one motorised brigade, airmobile 
brigade of the AFU, and one National Guard brigade 
near Novoaleksandrovka, Dzerzhinsk, Druzhba, 
Lysovka, Slavyanka, Baranovka,
 Novoandreyevka, and Kotlino
 (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses were up to 570 troops, two tanks, including one 
German-made Leopard tank, four armoured fighting vehicles, 
nine pickup trucks, and three field artillery pieces.
 
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces - continued advancing into the 
depth of enemy defences. Russian troops inflicted fire damage on 
units of two mechanised brigades of the AFU and three territorial 
defence brigades close to Novopetrovskoye (Dnepropetrovsk 
region), Zelyonoye Pole, Rovnopol, Dneproenergiya, and 
Razliv (Donetsk People's Republic)
 
The AFU losses were more than 130 troops, one German-made 
Leopard tank, one armoured fighting vehicle, and one motor 
vehicle. The Russian Armed Forces eliminated four field 
artillery pieces, including one 155-mm French-made 
Caesar self-propelled artillery system.
 
 Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces - engaged the manpower and 
hardware of two coastal defence brigades of the Armed Forces
 of Ukraine nearby Primorskoye, Novoandreyevka, Pyatikhatki 
(Zaporozhye region) and Antonovka (Kherson region).
 
The AFU losses were up to 40 troops, four motor 
vehicles, and one electronic warfare station.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, 
Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces 
engaged the infrastructure of military airfields, storage and
 training sites for the launch of unmanned aerial vehicles 
as well as clusters of manpower and hardware of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine - in 156 areas.
 
Air defence systems shot down 10 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS 
projectiles and 108 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 42,095 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,984 tanks and other armoured
 fighting vehicles, 1,511 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,100 field 
artillery guns and mortars, and 31,097 units of support 
military vehicles... have been neutralised.
 
 

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Expert Seleznev explained the survivability of 
the Challenger tank: by its non-participation
 in battles
February 1st, 6:48am
(Vesti.ru)
 
According to the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain, 
the Challenger tanks delivered for the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine have never failed. Military commentator 
Denis Seleznev -- on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV 
channel, explained the invulnerability of British 
equipment -- by the fact that it is very little 
used in combat operations.
 
In his opinion, this model of the tank 
has many operational problems.
 
"The Challenger tank, of course, was known as a celebrity, 
because there was, supposedly, not a single tank lost in 
combat operations, but this is only for the reason that 
it did not participate in them: particularly, that is - it
had nowhere.. to get beaten. This turned out to be 
the main mystery of the survivability of this tank, 
namely - that it simply does not appear on the 
battlefield. And it does not appear there, 
because --- it has obvious operational 
problems, not even combat, that is, 
apparently --- it is too heavy, it is 
poorly passable... very difficult
to maintain ------ and it breaks 
down," Seleznev explained.
 
On December 13, the Russian Defense Ministry reported 
that the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost two British 
Challenger tanks during the fighting in the 
Kursk region.
 
 
 
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Ganchev: Russian Armed Forces 
control about 70 settlements 
in Kharkiv region
February 1st, 4:19am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation control about 70% 
of the settlements in the Kharkiv region, said the head of the 
Russian regional administration, Vitaly Ganchev.
 
Mostly we are talking about villages, and Volchansk 
can be distinguished from large cities. But even in 
small settlements, people still live.
 
"About 70 villages," RIA Novosti quotes Ganchev as saying.
 
He also added that most of the local residents are elderly people 
or those who need social or medical support, and our task is to 
give it to them.
 
Earlier, Ganchev noted that the liberation of Dvurechnaya, which 
became known on January 28th, will allow the Russian army 
to create a springboard for an offensive in the direction of 
the Kupyansky and Volchansky districts.
 
 
 
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Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
 took out the loot from Chasova Yar 
in Turkish armoured cars
February 1st, 3:68am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Ukrainian military exported looted property from Chasova Yar 
to the DPR, in Turkish Kirpi armoured cars. Local resident Pavel 
Morkovin, who suffered from the actions of the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces, told RIA Novosti about this.
 
He said that he observed the situation himself. ''When I drove up to 
my store ---- I saw a Turkish Kirpi armoured car with a crew of 
eight people.'' According to him, the Ukrainian military 
entered the store, took out the bars - and took away 
coffee machines, computers and other equipment.
 
"By and large, the Ukrainian Armed Forces used their
armoured vehicles, which NATO provided to them,
for looting ....and their 
own enrichment,"
RIA Novosti quotes Morkovin.
 
Earlier it became known that Russian fighters are
cleaning 
up the area of the railway station
in Chasovy Yar.
 
The operator of the calculation of attack UAVs of the 155th 
Marine Brigade, said that the APU began to use US tanks 
more often in the Kursk region.
 
 
 
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Avidzba: citizens of Abkhazia participate 
in the Free Trade Zone -- to preserve 
their common history with the 
Russian Federation
February 1st, 12:19am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Citizens of Abkhazia participate in the special military operation 
(SVO) -- as Sukhum and Moscow have a common cultural space, 
said the commander of the international brigade "Pyatnashka" 
Ahra Avidzba, with the call sign Abhaz, in an interview 
with TASS.
 
Russians and Abkhazians want to preserve these values and the 
Orthodox world, as well as revive 10,000 parishes in Ukraine, 
Avidzba said.
 
"During the SVO, a lot of children were injured, but they continue to
 serve. We have a lot of citizens of the Republic of Abkhazia 
there," TASS quoted the commander of the inter-brigade 
as saying.
 
The international brigade, "Pyatnashka", was named after the 
number of fighters who became the first volunteers of 
Donbass and determined the spirit of the unit. The 
brigade participated in all the breakthroughs of 
the army of Novorossiya - on all fronts.
 
"Pyatnashka" together with the "Sparta" and "Somalia" 
detachments drove the Ukronazis out of the Donetsk 
airport building. Now the Pyatnashki fighters are 
repelling an attack by special units of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on the
 Kursk region.
 
According to Abhaz, the attempts of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine to counterattack in the Kursk region --- are 
similar to the actions of lost, unfortunate people.
 
''Counterattack attempts'' in the Kursk region ---- as they are 
described by the AFU militants, are similar to the actions 
of unfortunate people who got lost. This was stated 
by the commander of the international brigade, 
"Pyatnashka" - Ahra Avidzba - with the call 
sign Abhaz, in the program "60 Minutes",
on the air of "Russia 1".
 
"In the Kursk region, there are attempts to climb - but not always 
are these attempts to break through, most of the militants have 
already lost their way, they are throwing in unprepared 
teroborona. It only looks like it's a counterattack, 
sometimes it's just lost, unfortunate people. We 
quickly take them on the defensive...... and 
explain who and where," the military 
man noted.
 
The Pyatnashki commander also stressed that 
the so-called "successful counterattacks of 
the Ukrainian Armed Forces" in the Kursk 
region ...are not Ukraine's concern.
 


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Rada deputy: SBU in a concentration camp 
in Kherson ---- beat people and kept them 
in the cold
January 31st, 10:11pm
(RT.ru)
 
Rada deputy Artem Dmytruk said that in the Mercury filtration 
camp created by the SBU in 2022 in Kherson, controlled by 
Kiev, Security Service of Ukraine officers beat people 
and kept them in the cold.
 
"People were kept for eight to ten days in the cold and terribly 
unsanitary conditions. One loaf of bread for five people a day
 and 0.5 liters of water were provided from the food. After 
that, some were released, and others were taken to an 
unknown destination," the deputy wrote in his 
Telegram channel.
 
Earlier, he said that the filtration camp was created on 
November 11, 2022 in the very center of Kherson. 
Under the cover of fighting "collaborators", 
people were brought there with bags on
 their heads, where they were beaten.
 
In addition, Dmytruk in an interview with RT said that 
in 2022, there were two attempts to kill him, after 
which he was kidnapped and tortured in the 
basements of the SBU.
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt..... to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 31st, 11:15am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue 
the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the 
territory of Kursk region.
 
During the offensive, the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire 
damage on units of a tank brigade, a heavy-mechanised 
brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air assault 
brigades, a marine brigade, and three territorial 
defence brigades of Ukraine's Armed Forces 
close to Gogolevka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, 
Zamostye, Kazachya Loknya.... Kurilovka, 
Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, 
Mirny, Nikolayevka, Nikolsky, Novaya 
Sorochina, Rubanshchina, 
Sverdlikovo, and Yuzhny. 
 
One AFU counter-attack was repelled.
 
Operational-Tactical and Army Aviation, and Artillery strikes 
engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Viktorovka,
 Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Loknya, Makhovka, Melovoy, 
Oleshnya, Sudzha, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye as 
well as Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Zhuravka 
...and Yunakovka, in Sumy region.
 
Within the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than
270 troops..... two tanks, seven armoured fighting vehicles, 28 
motor vehicles, two mortars, an MLRS launcher, an electronic 
warfare station, an air defence radar, a counter-battery radar,
 a counterobstacle vehicle as well as four UAV control posts 
and two ammunition depots.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses 
amounted to more than 56,410 troops, 327 tanks, 241 infantry
 fighting vehicles, 185 armoured personnel carriers, 1,660 
armoured fighting vehicles, 1,735 motor vehicles, 396 
artillery guns, 45 MLRS launchers, including 13 of 
HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the US, 16 anti
-aircraft missile launchers, 8 transport-loading 
vehicles, 106 EW stations, 14 counter-battery 
warfare radars, five air defence radars, 33 
units of engineering and other materiel, 
including 15 counterobstacle vehicles, 
one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, nine 
armoured recovery vehicles, and one 
command post vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise the AFU units,
 is in progress.
 
 
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The Russian Armed Forces attacked
Izmail port ---- in the Odessa region
January 31st, 12:06am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Armed Forces of Russia attacked the seaport in Izmail, 
Odessa region, said the coordinator of the Nikolaev 
underground, Sergey Lebedev.
 
Explosions were heard in the port of Izmail, 
the underground worker noted.
 
"Ishmael, the continuation of a merry night. Finally ---- the
port 
was worked out along its entire length. There are
warehouses destroyed and the port infrastructure is
broken, which means 
that the port will not accept
military cargo for several days, 
or maybe even
weeks," Lebedev said, in response to a 
request from RIA Novosti.
 
Meanwhile, the Russian army earlier attacked the city of Kilia 
in the Odessa region, killing several dozen mercenaries 
from Romania.
 
"I really want these hubs for Western military-technical 
assistance - to simply stop working. They have 
completely stopped," said the Foreign 
Ministry's Ambassador-at-Large,
 Rodion Miroshnik.
 
According to him, Ukraine uses the ports of the 
Odessa region ---- to receive the main flows
of 
Western weapons.
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports --- 
on repelling AFU attempt to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region 
January 30th, 10:40am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue
 the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the 
territory of Kursk region.
 
In the course of offensive actions - units of the Sever Group of 
Forces inflicted losses on formations of one tank brigade, one 
heavy mechanised brigade, four mechanised brigades, 2 air 
assault brigades, one marine brigade, and three territorial 
defence brigades of the AFU by Gogolevka, Goncharovka, 
Guyevo, Pervy Knyazhy, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya 
Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolayevka, Nikolsky, Novaya 
Sorochina, Rubanshchina, Sverdlikovo, and 
Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. Two counter-
attacks launched by the enemy's units 
were repelled.
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and artillery ---- inflicted 
losses on manpower & hardware of the enemy near Viktorovka, 
Guyevo, Zazulevka, Kazachaya Loknya, Kolmakov, Kositsa,
Kruglenkoye, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Malaya 
Loknya, Martynovka, Makhnovka, Melovoy, Nikolsky, 
Novaya Sorochina, Oleshnya, Sverdlikovo, Staraya 
Sorochina, Sudzha, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye as 
well as Basovka, Belovody, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, 
and Obody, in Sumy region.
 
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 240 
troops, two infantry fighting vehicles, one armoured personnel 
carrier, 4 armoured fighting vehicles, 14 motor vehicles, four 
artillery guns, nine mortars, two electronic warfare stations, 
three UAV command posts, and two ammunition depots. 
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses 
amounted to more than 56,140 troops, 325 tanks, 241 infantry 
fighting vehicles, 185 armoured personnel carriers, plus 1,653 
armoured fighting vehicles, 1,707 motor vehicles, 396 artillery 
guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of 
MLRS made by the US, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, 8 
transport-loading vehicles, 105 EW stations, 14 counter-
battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 32 units 
of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counter
-obstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, 
nine armoured recovery vehicles, and one 
command post vehicle. 
 
The operation to neutralise the AFU units,
 is in progress.
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation 
January 30th, 9:25am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,
 continue the special military operation.
 
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces 
inflicted losses on formations of one motorised infantry 
brigade and one air assault brigade of the AFU near 
Volchansk (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 50 troops, one 
armoured personnel carrier, three motor vehicles,
 and one field artillery gun.
 
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical 
situation. Losses were inflicted on manpower and hard-
ware of three mechanised brigades of the AFU, two 
territorial defence brigades, and one national guard 
brigade by Peschanoye, Zagryzovo, Zagoruykovka, 
Kutkovka, Putnikovo & Kurilovka (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to more than 320 troops, two 
armoured fighting vehicles, 10 motor vehicles, eight 
field artillery guns, including three NATO-made 
guns. One ammunition depot was wiped out.
 
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines 
and positions. Losses were inflicted on the formations of two 
mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade of the AFU, and 
one territorial defence brigade near Seversk, Dronovka, 
Verkhnekamenskoye, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk
 People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 175 troops, two motor 
vehicles, and one field artillery gun. One ammunition 
depot was wiped out.
 
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, continued to engage in active 
offensive operations. Losses were inflicted on the manpower and 
hardware of three mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry 
brigade, one airmobile brigade of the AFU, and 1 national guard 
brigade near Dzerzhinsk, Druzhba, Nelepovka, Novopavlovka, 
Shcherbinovka and Andreyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 550 troops, two 
armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, 
and two field artillery guns.
 
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into 
the depth of the enemy's defences. Losses were inflicted on 
formations of two mechanised brigades of the AFU, one 
marine brigade, and one territorial defence brigade 
near Novoselka, Razliv, Volnoye Pole (Donetsk 
People's Republic), and Novodarovka 
(Zaporozhye region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 125 troops and three 
motor vehicles. Five field artillery guns, including one 
NATO-made gun, were destroyed.
 
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower 
and hardware of one mechanised brigade of the AFU and one 
territorial defence brigade near Antonovka, Tokarevka 
(Kherson region), and Kamenskoye 
(Zaporozhye region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 
55 troops and two motor vehicles.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, 
Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces 
struck Ukrainian defence industry objects, infrastructure of 
military airfields, UAV workshops and storages -- as well as
 engaged the enemy's manpower & hardware in 142 areas.
 
Air defence units shot down two French-made Hammer guided 
aerial bombs, four U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, and 
61 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 41,861 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,892 tanks and other armoured 
fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,058 field 
artillery guns and mortars, and 30,904 units of support 
military vehicles - have been neutralised.
 
In the past six months, monthly medical and irrecoverable losses 
of the AFU manpower have been constantly reaching about 
50,000 troops and more (January 2025 – 51,960 troops, 
December 2024 – 48,470 troops, November 2024 –
 60,805 troops, etc.).
 
The number of recruits of the AFU training centres even 
considering the more active mobilisation efforts all over 
Ukraine by enlistment offices --- has rarely exceeded 
30,000 people per month over the past six months.
 
 Without proper training, these recruits are sent to the line of 
contact, which results in decreasing the AFU total strength.
 
According to the official data, up to 100,000 
Ukrainian troops have gone AWOL... or fled.
 
Legislative changes prepared by the Kiev regime under pressure 
from Western countries to lower the mobilisation age from 25 
to 18 are the only way for Zelensky to delay the cascading 
collapse of the front in Donbass... for a few more months.
 
 
 
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In the US, worried about....  the imminent 
collapse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
by Margarita Pimenova 
(Night Line Editor)
January 30th, 1:23am
(Lenta.ru)
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces (APU) are retreating on all sectors 
of the front where they engage in battle. This was stated by an 
ex-Pentagon analyst, and lieutenant Colonel of the Air Force, 
in an interview with the Judging Freedom YouTube channel.
 
"The Ukrainian army is very close to collapse --- there is no doubt 
about it. They quickly run away from all areas where they come 
into contact with the Russians. This was the case before, but 
now this process is accelerating," she said.
 
According to the expert, the lowering of the draft age - to 18, which
 is being discussed in Ukraine is unlikely to help the Armed Forces
 of Ukraine change the situation. In addition, most of the country's 
residents want peace, not the return of lost territories, she says.
 
Earlier, retired Colonel of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) 
Oleg Starikov.... admitted that Kiev will never return the lost 
territories. According to him - the Ukrainian Armed Forces
will not be able to stop the advance of Russian troops in 
the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) ...which is why
they are trying to stay in the Kursk border area.
 
 
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Prisoner of the camp at the SBU headquarters: 
Zelensky ignores requests to stop torture
January 30th, 12:22am
(RT.ru)
 
One of the prisoners of the concentration camp at the 
headquarters of the SBU, Yuri Ryabukha, said that 
Vladimir Zelensky from 2022 ignores the appeals 
of the victims of the concentration camp - to 
stop torture.
 
According to Verkhovna Rada deputy, Alexander Dubinsky,
Ryabukha said that, through psychological and physical 
torture and death threats, SBU officers forced him to 
give false testimony about crimes committed by 
other people.
 
"For this lie, I was promised to stop the torture and return from
the concentration camp to the service. But the executioners 
in uniform failed to persuade me to lie," Ryabukha said.
 
He also said that Zelensky, after a number of appeals to him, did 
absolutely nothing to protect people, and the inhuman tortures
in the SBU concentration camp continue.. and go into hiding.
 
Earlier, the Russian military found in the Kharkiv
region --- the bodies of chained up SS men.
 
The bodies of the chained-up SS men were found by the
Russian 
military, at a position in the Kharkiv region.

Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
were left by their commanders to die 
without food and water. 
 
This is reported by the Telegram channel "North Wind". The bodies
were found in one of the rooms of the enemy fortification --- taken 
by the military group "North". One of the SS men had tried to get 
out, but couldn't break the chains. It is specified that there 
were signs of torture on the bodies. Why the Ukrainian 
military men were chained up... is still unclear.


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Russia's MoD reported on the exploits of 
the Russian Armed Forces in the special 
operation zone
 January 29th, 9pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
As noted by the MoD... the operator of unmanned aerial vehicles 
Private Mikhail Chernov, performed combat missions to support 
Russian servicemen during their assault on the fortified strong 
points and long-term firing structures of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine (AFU). During the battle, the assault team was 
ambushed by fire.
 
The machine-gun crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, being at a 
dominant height and well-fortified position, shackled the actions
 of a group of Russian commandos, forcing them to fight in 
unprepared positions. Having correctly assessed the 
situation and quickly prepared the attack UAV for 
departure, Chernov, immediately sent it to the 
area of operation of enemy machine gunners. 
 
Having promptly discovered the location of the enemy machine-
gun crew, the serviceman destroyed it with a targeted hit of 
the drone. Chernov's competent and decisive actions made 
it possible to continue the group's offensive and dislodge
 the enemy from an important stronghold.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry also reported.. that the group under 
the command of the guard, private Anatoly Sineglazov, performed
 a combat mission to detect enemy positions, identify long-
term fortified structures, and armoured vehicles, and
adjusted the fire 
of Russian artillery crews.
 
In the course of conducting offensive operations, Sineglazov, 
together with his subordinates, secretly moved to the line of 
combat contact, and also competently led subordinate 
personnel under the incessant fire influence from the 
enemy. The serviceman identified the most 
dangerous centres of resistance and firing
points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 
the coordinates of which were 
immediately transmitted to 
the positions of the 
Russian artillery 
for destruction 
---correcting
 its fire.
 
After the battle ended, Sineglazov, with his subordinates, 
prepared several hidden dugouts disguising them, using 
improvised materials. Over the next two days... without 
disclosing their location, the group of Russian fighters 
monitored the enemy & transmitted the coordinates 
of targets to be hit to the artillery control point, as 
a result of which the enemy's positions were 
destroyed, along with the militants and 
equipment located there, the 
ministry said.
 
 
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Political analyst Fatigarov: our fighters 
are brave, savvy, they solve problems 
unconventionally
January 29th, 5:15pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - 
have tremendous ingenuity, bravery and a non-standard approach
to solving combat tasks. This opinion was expressed by political 
analyst Vasily Fatigarov on the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
 
According to the journalist, our military uses weapons that are 
available. He said that he witnessed how the soldiers adapted
 a mine from a mortar to a hand grenade launcher.
 
"Our guys have tremendous ingenuity, bravery, and a non-standard 
approach to solving and performing combat tasks. And speaking 
more broadly, we use all types of weapons, conventional ones, 
of course, which we need to use," Fatigarov said.
 
Earlier it was reported that the soldiers of the group of forces 
"North" showed a warehouse with captured NATO weapons 
--- captured in the battles in the Kursk region.
 
 
 
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Military commander Kukushkin: 
Russia's Armed Forces control
 more than 90% of Dzerzhinsk 
in the DPR
January 29th, 5:14pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Over 90% of the city of Dzerzhinsk (Ukrainian name-Toretsk, 
Editor's note) in the Donetsk People's Republic is under the 
control of the Russian army. This was stated by military 
correspondent Pavel Kukushkin in an interview with 
Rossiya 24.
 
He clarified that the fighting is currently taking place 
on the territory of the Toretskaya mine.
 
"We can safely say that yes, 90 percent, roughly, if we say, more 
than 90% of the city is behind us. The only source of resistance,
 I repeat, is the Toretskaya mine," Kukushin said.
 
The liberation of Dzerzhinsk, as well as Chas Yar, which is 
located next to it, is important for the Russian army, the 
military commander stressed.
 
"The liberation of both Toretsk and Chas Yar opens up operational 
space for us to attack Konstantinovka. This is a very important 
logistics centre for supplying groups of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine," Pavel Kukushkin said.
 
And after the liberation of Konstantinovka, the Russian Armed 
Forces will open up operational space for Slavyansk and 
Kramatorsk, the military correspondent added.


 
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Russian soldiers told how they 
liberated Novoelizavetovka 
in the DPR
January 29th, 3:30pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
During the liberation of the village of Novoelizavetovka, the 
assault detachments of the Russian Armed Forces were 
covered by tankers of the 90th division of the Center 
group of Troops. Details of the offensive operation 
were shared with Rossiya TV channel by 
Russian soldiers.
 
According to the tank commander Daniil Dorofeev, our military 
knew in advance the location of the Ukrainian militants.
 
"We were following the route. They knew in advance where the 
enemy was. We worked on them, extinguished the firing points.
 The infantry entered the village," the tankman said.
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces... tried to prevent the advance of our 
troops by firing at them with all their guns.

Gunner-operator of the 
tank, Valery Grigoriev,
told about the hit of an enemy missile
on 
the tank.
 
"During the liberation actions of the [Novoelizavetovka]
"settlement", 
after a certain time, an ATGM flew at us.
The tank staggered a little.... but held 
out,"
the Russian military said.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry announced the release of 
Novoelizavetovka in the DPR on January 29. For more 
information about how the Russian Armed Forces 
took control of this locality, see the program 
"Vesti" on "Russia 1" at 5pm.
 

 
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Fighter of the Russian Federation Batukaev:
''militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine''
 in Chas' Yar - wore US flags
January 29th, 2:16pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Ukrainian Armed Forces militants killed near the town 
of Chasov Yar --- were wearing US flags. Zelimkhan 
Batukayev, commander of the 2nd motorized rifle 
battalion of the 4th Brigade of the 3rd Combined 
Arms Army of the Southern Military District, 
told the TASS news agency.
 
The serviceman specified that his unit was knocking out units of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the territory of a children's 
camp in the south-east of Chasova Yar. According to 
Batukayev, there were no Ukrainian militants 
among the killed opponents.
 
"When we started moving into the camp itself, we didn't find any 
dead enemy with the Ukrainian flag, but there were American
 flags. I am 99% sure --- that they are not Ukrainians," 
the battalion commander explained.
 
The situation was similar during the liberation of Artemivsk, 
Batukayev added. 90% of the militants entrenched in the 
city --- were foreign mercenaries.


 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt.... to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region 
January 29th, 11am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
continue the operation ---- to neutralise AFU 
formations on the territory of Kursk region.
 
During the offensive, units of the Sever Group of Forces, inflicted
damage on formations of 1 tank brigade, one heavy mechanised 
brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, a
marine brigade ---- and three territorial defence brigades of the 
AFU close to Gogolevka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Zaoleshenka, 
Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, 
Nikolayevka, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, 
Rubanshchina, Sverdlikovo, Sudzha, and
Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. Eight 
hostile counter-attacks 
were repelled. 
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and Artillery engaged AFU 
manpower and hardware.... close to Viktorovka, Goncharovka, 
Guyevo, Zazulevka, Kazachya Loknya, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, 
Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, 
Makhnovka, Melovoy, Nikolayevka, Nikolsky, Novaya 
Sorochina, Oleshnya, Sverdlikovo, Sudzha, 
Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, Yuzhny, 
Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, 
Vodolagi, Zhuravka, and 
Obody in Sumy region. 
 
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 
420 troops, three tanks, seven armoured fighting vehicles, 29
 motor vehicles as well as seven UAV control posts and an 
ammunition depot. One AFU serviceman surrendered.
 
 Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses 
amounted to more than 55,900 troops, 325 tanks, 239 infantry 
fighting vehicles, 184 armoured personnel carriers, 1,649 
armoured fighting vehicles, 1,639 motor vehicles, 392 
artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of 
HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the US, 16 anti
-aircraft missile launchers, 8 transport-loading 
vehicles, 103 EW stations, 14 counter-battery 
warfare radars, four air defence radars, 32 
units of engineering and other materiel,
 including 13 counterobstacle vehicles,
 one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, nine 
armoured recovery vehicles, and one 
command post vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise the AFU units,
 is in progress.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation 
January 29th, 9:30am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,
 continue the special military operation.
 
In Kharkov direction, the Sever Group of Forces hit units 
of a motorised infantry brigade.. and an assault brigade
of the AFU near Liptsy and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 30 troops, an 
armoured fighting vehicle, a motor vehicle, and 
two field artillery guns.
 
The Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. 
Russian units engaged manpower and materiel of a tank 
brigade, a mechanised brigade, one assault brigade of 
the AFU, and a national guard brigade close to Topoli,
 Lozovaya, Zeleny Gai (Kharkov region), and 
Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 320 troops, a tank, three 
armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M113
 armoured personnel carriers, eight motor vehicles, six 
field artillery guns, including two Western-made 
artillery pieces, and two Nota electronic 
warfare stations. Three ammunition
 depots, were destroyed.
 
The Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and 
positions. Russian units hit formations of two mechanised 
brigades of the AFU and two territorial defence brigades 
close to Verkhnekamenskoye, Yantarnoye, Orekhovo-
Vasilevka, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk 
People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 220 troops, three 
armoured fighting vehicles, five motor vehicles, 
and two field artillery guns.
 
The Tsentr Group of Forces liberated Novoyelizavetovka
(Donetsk People's Republic) as a result of 
active operations.
 
Russian troops engaged the manpower and materiel of three 
mechanised brigades, a jaeger brigade of the AFU, and 
a national guard brigade close to Andreyevka, 
Novopavlovka, Udachnoye, Shcherbinovka, 
& Tarasovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The enemy's losses amounted to up to 520 troops, a tank, 
seven armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-
made M113 armoured personnel carriers, seven 
motor vehicles, five field artillery guns, and a 
U.S. AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radar.
 
The Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth 
of the enemy's defences. A mechanised brigade of the AFU, 
a marine brigade, and a territorial defence brigade were hit 
near Razliv & Konstantinopol (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The enemy sustained losses of more than 135 troops, a tank,
 and four field artillery guns, including a Western-made gun.
 
The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower 
and hardware of a mechanised brigade and a territorial 
defence brigade close to Malaya Tokmachka 
(Zaporozhye region) and Antonovka 
(Kherson region).
 
The AFU lost more than 50 troops and four motor vehicles.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike UAVs, Missile Troops and 
Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces --- have engaged the 
infrastructure of military airfields, drone & uncrewed surface 
vehicles manufacturing workshops, depots, and assembly 
sites as well as clusters of enemy manpower and 
hardware, in 156 areas.
 
Air defence systems - shot down 165 
fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 41,800 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,887 tanks and other armoured 
fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,041 field 
artillery guns and mortars, and 30,878 units of support 
military vehicles, have been neutralised.
 
 
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Zyuganov: full internal mobilization 
of each person - is necessary
for 
victory in the SVO
January 29th, 8:50am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The victory of Russia in a special military operation requires full 
internal mobilization of every Russian citizen, said the head of 
the Communist Party, Gennady Zyuganov, on the TV 
channel "Russia".
 
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation --- together with the 
All-Russian headquarters of the protest movement, sent a shipment 
of cargo to the special operation zone. It includes cars and motor 
vehicles, warm clothes, and military ammunition, as well as 
trench candles.
 
"Today, in order to win, we need to solve tasks, the first of which 
is the complete internal mobilization of each person and the 
understanding that the war that NATO and the CIA 
declared on the Russian world ------ is a war 
against each of you," Zyuganov said.
 
He added that the war unleashed against the Russian world 
is aimed at destroying Russian culture, traditions, history 
and the true independence of Russia.
 
 
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Air defense forces destroyed
 26 drones in Bryansk region
January 28th, 11:20pm
(RT.ru)

Russian air defense forces -- destroyed 26 
Ukrainian drones over the Bryansk region.
This was announced by the governor of 
the region, Alexander Bogomaz.
 
"The air defense forces of the Ministry of Defense of the 
Russian Federation intercepted and destroyed 26 
unmanned aerial vehicles of an airplane type, 
including three jet ones," he wrote in the 
Telegram channel.
 
According to the governor, there were no casualties.
 
Earlier it became known that the wreckage of a 
downed UAV caused a fire in the Kstovskaya
industrial zone of Nizhny Novgorod region.
 
 
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In the Smolensk region --- a UAV was shot down 
while trying to attack a nuclear power facility
January 28th, 10:45pm
(RT.ru)
 
Civilian objects of the Smolensk region - were subjected to a
massive attack by drones --- one of the UAVs was shot down 
during an attempt to attack a nuclear power facility.
 
This was announced by the governor of the region,
 Vasily Anokhin.
 
"In various districts of the Smolensk region, civilian objects were 
subjected to a massive attack by UAVs. According to preliminary 
information, one of the drones was shot down during an 
attempted attack on a nuclear power facility,"
 he wrote in the Telegram channel.
 
According to the governor, the Russian Defense Ministry's air
 defense and electronic warfare systems are destroying UAVs.
 
There were no casualties or damage.
 
Earlier, the Smolensk region announced 
the danger of a UAV attack.
 
In addition, six drones were destroyed in the Toropetsky 
district of the Tver region. Several drones were also 
shot down near Andreapol.
 
 
 
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Putin announced plans to open 
48 more centres in the field
of 
unmanned aircraft
January 28th, 6:30pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, January 28, 
said that at the moment there are 15 centres in the field 
of unmanned aircraft in the country, but in the future 
48 more will be opened.
 
"In total, 48 such centres are planned to be created in the 
horizon of the current decade. Now there are already 15 
of them," he said during a meeting on the development 
of unmanned aircraft.
 
The Russian leader added that it is possible to create more 
such centres in various regions of Russia, including 
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ryazan, Novgorod, 
Sakhalin and Tomsk regions, as well as 
in the Perm Region.
 
Putin noted that the centre in Togliatti... will be expanded 
and will become a research, educational and production
 cluster in the field of civil unmanned aviation.
 
Earlier in the day, it was reported that developers at the Moscow 
Institute of Physics and Technology created a system for active 
vibration suppression of laser guidance devices for unmanned 
aerial vehicles weighing up to 5 kg. The implementation of 
the innovation will allow reducing the spread of the laser 
beam by 20-30% and reducing the weight of drones 
by 40-50%.


 
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 Putin is ready to single out people 
who will negotiate peace
 in Ukraine
January 28th, 6:08pm
(RT.ru)
 
Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to single out people
 who will negotiate peace in Ukraine if Kiev wants to engage
 in dialogue.
 
VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin asked the president... if he 
considered it possible to negotiate with Vladimir Zelensky.
 
"If he wants to take part in the negotiations, I will single out 
such people who will conduct these negotiations, please. 
The issue --- is the final signing of the documents," 
Vladimir Putin said.
 
The President stressed that negotiations "can be conducted 
with anyone," but due to his illegitimacy, Vladimir Zelensky 
"has no right to sign anything."
 
 
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Military commander Razin: The Russian
Armed Forces 
narrow the corridor for
the transfer of AFU reserves 
to the Kursk region
January 28th, 5:03pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
After the liberation of Nikolaevo-Daryino in the Kursk region, 
Russian fighters began to narrow the corridor through 
which the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to
 transfer reserves. This was stated on the air 
of the program "60 minutes" on "Russia 1" 
by military correspondent Vladimir Razin.
 
According to Razin, the Kursk region remains 
one of the most active sectors of the front.
 
"After the liberation of Nikolaevo-Darino, this is the western flank, 
we approached Sverdlikovo, and now the fighting is going on in
 the area of Sverdlikovo. Thus, we narrow the corridor through 
which the enemy still does not stop transferring a large 
number of reserves to the Kursk region every day," 
the military commander said.
 
At the same time, part of the reserves of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine, thanks to the efforts of Russian fighters, does not
 even get to the territory of the Kursk region.
 
"Some of these reserves are being destroyed in the Sumy region. 
That is, our intelligence works quite deeply ------- and our missile 
launchers hit both clusters and command posts of the enemy,"
 Vladimir Razin said.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry announced the liberation of 
the village of Nikolaevo-Darino in the Sudzhansky district 
of the Kursk region, on January 27.
 
 
 
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Ganchev: the liberation of Dvurechnaya 
will allow us to develop an offensive 
on the Volchansky district
January 28th, 1:05pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The liberation of the village of Dvurechnaya will create a 
springboard for an offensive towards Kupyansky and 
Volchansky districts, the head of the Russian 
administration of the Kharkiv region, 
Vitaly Ganchev told RIA Novosti.
 
He also clarified that Dvurechnaya is a relatively large settlement 
that previously had the status of a regional centre. In addition, 
earlier the entire right bank of the Oskol River in this area 
was controlled by AFU militants. Now there will be less 
shelling of the left bank from the enemy, the head of
 the administration noted.
 
"This is a springboard for a further offensive on the territory of the 
Kupyansky district in the direction of the Volchansky district,
 that is, it is quite a serious operational and tactical space 
for our troops," Ganchev added.
 
Recall that on January 28, the Russian Defense Ministry reported 
that units of the Zapad group of troops liberated Dvurechnaya
 in the Kharkiv region.
 
Defense Minister Andrey Belousov congratulated the soldiers 
of the 25th separate Guards motorized Rifle Brigade, who 
participated in the liberation of Dvurechnaya.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt.... to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 28th, 11:15am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
continue the operation ---- to neutralise AFU 
formations on the territory of Kursk region.
 
During the offensive, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted 
fire damage on formations of one tank brigade, one heavy 
mechanised brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air 
assault brigades, one marine brigade.. and three 
territorial defence brigades of the AFU close to 
Viktorovka, Gogolevka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, 
Zaoleshenka, Pervy Knyazhy.... Kurilovka, 
Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka.. 
Nikolayevka, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, 
Sverdlikovo, Sudzha, and Cherkasskoye 
Porechnoye. 5 enemy counter-attacks 
were repelled.
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery strikes --- 
engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Bogdanovka,
 Zamostye, Kazachya Loknya, Pervy Knyazhy, Kolmakov, 
Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Lebedevka, Loknya, Martynovka, 
Melovoy, Mirny, Nikolayevka, Yuzhny plus Basovka, 
Belovody, Veselovka, Vodolagi, Glukhov, and 
Zhuravka, in Sumy region.
 
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to 
more than 280 troops, one tank, one infantry 
fighting vehicle, six armoured fighting 
vehicles, and 20 motor vehicles.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses 
amounted to more than 55,470 troops, 322 tanks, 239 infantry 
fighting vehicles, 184 armoured personnel carriers, 1,642 
armoured fighting vehicles, 1,664 motor vehicles, 392 
artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of 
HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the US, 16 anti
-aircraft missile launchers, 8 transport-loading 
vehicles, 103 EW stations, 14 counter-battery 
warfare radars, four air defence radars, 32 
units of engineering and other materiel, 
including 13 counterobstacle vehicles,
 one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, 9 
armoured recovery vehicles, and 
one command post vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise the AFU units,
 is in progress.
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation 
January 28th, 9:45am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
continue the special military operation.
 
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted 
losses on formations of one motorised infantry brigade of the 
AFU and one territorial defence brigade near Liptsy and 
Volchansk (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 25 troops, one armoured 
fighting vehicle, and two motor vehicles. Two field artillery 
guns and one ammunition depot were neutralised.
 
As a result of decisive actions of the Zapad Group of 
Forces, Dvurechnaya (Kharkov region) was liberated.
 
Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of one tank 
brigade, two mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of 
the AFU and two territorial defence brigades near Topoli, 
Zapadnoye... Peschanoye, Lozovaya, Kopanki, Zeleny 
Gai, Krasnoye Pervoye (Kharkov region), Makeyevka
 (Lugansk People's Republic), Yampol, Grigorovka, 
and Ivanovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 330 troops, four armoured 
fighting vehicles, to include two U.S.-made M113 armoured 
personnel carriers, and six motor vehicles. Four field 
artillery guns, to include three of Western-made, 
two electronic warfare stations, and two 
ammunition depots were eliminated.
 
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines 
and positions. Formations of two mechanised brigades, one 
assault brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence 
brigades were hit near Verkhnekamenskoye, 
Yantarnoye, Zelenovka, Orekhovo-Vasilevka, 
Chasov Yar, and Dachnoye (Donetsk 
People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 220 troops, two US HMMWV
 armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one U.S.
-made 105-mm M119 gun. An ammunition depot was wiped out.
 
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces - continued advancing to the 
depth of the enemy's defences. Manpower and hardware of four 
mechanised brigades, a motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, 
two national guard brigades, and a territorial defence brigade 
were hit ------- close to Shcherbinovka, Dzerzhinsk, Lysovka, 
Krymskoye, Zverevo, Novoyelizavetovka, Vozdvizhenka, 
Yasenovoye, Novovasilyevka, and Kotlino (Donetsk
 People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 600 troops, two tanks, two 
armoured fighting vehicles, to include one U.S.-made Bradley 
infantry fighting vehicle, seven motor vehicles, and one field
 artillery gun.
 
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing to the 
depth of the enemy's defences. Formations of one mechanised 
brigade of the AFU, a national guard brigade, and a territorial 
defence brigade ---  were hit near Bogatyr, Vremevka, and 
Rovnopol (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to more than 115 troops, one tank, two 
motor vehicles, and four field artillery guns, to include one 
manufactured by Western countries.
 
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have engaged manpower and 
hardware of a mechanised brigade, one coastal defence brigade
 of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade close to 
Stepnogorsk, Novopokrovka, Rabotino 
(Zaporozhye region), Antonovka 
(Kherson region), and Kherson.
 
The AFU losses were more than 40 troops 
and three motor vehicles.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike UAVs, Missile Troops and 
Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces --- have engaged the
infrastructure of military airfields, drones & uncrewed surface 
vehicles manufacturing workshops and depots ..as well as 
clusters of enemy manpower and hardware in 152 areas.
 
Air defence systems have shot down 15 U.S.-made 
HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 64 fixed-wing 
unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 41,635 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,870 tanks and other armoured 
fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,022 field 
artillery guns and mortars, and 30,853 units of support
 military vehicles have been neutralised.
 
 
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Military commander Kukushkin -- 
AFU bridgehead in Kursk border 
area reduced by two-thirds
January 28th, 9:37am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Since August 2024 --- the Russian Armed Forces have reduced the 
AFU bridgehead in the Kursk border area by more than two-thirds. 
This was reported by military correspondent Pavel Kukushkin on 
the air of the program "60 Minutes" on the TV channel "Russia".
 
Kukushkin noted that the liberation of the settlement of 
Nikolaevo-Daryino made it possible to further narrow 
the bridgehead of the Kiev regime in the Kursk 
border area.
 
"Now this foothold is being reduced, now it is reduced by more than
 two-thirds. The liberation of Mykolaiv-Daryino also brings us closer 
to controlling one of the routes that is being supplied to this 
bridgehead from the Sumy region," the military 
commander said.
 
On January 27, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that 
Russian troops liberated the village of Nikolaevo-Darino 
from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
 


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Special forces, liberating Timofeyevka 
in the DPR, used the "method of 
pulling the enemy apart"
January 28th, 5:38am
(Vesti.ru)
 
A detachment of Russian soldiers during the liberation of the village 
of Timofeyevka in the Donetsk People's Republic was divided into 
several triples in order to prevent the enemy from conducting 
targeted fire from fortified positions. The fighters told about 
the subtleties of the strategy in an interview with the 
correspondent of the TV channel "Russia" 
Alexander Kotsyube.
 
Dmitry Trunin, the commander of the reconnaissance group, 
called this tactic "the method of pulling the enemy apart."
 
"The troika --- worked from the left flank, the troika worked from the 
right flank, and the troika worked directly along the front to break 
up the enemy from its firing positions. ....So that the enemy does 
not have time to aim in one group and conduct targeted fire on 
one group. From the flanks -- they also hit the enemy with 
various automatic weapons, machine guns --- destroyed 
him, forced him to withdraw, or destroyed him already," 
Trunin said.
 
As noted by Maxim Nazin, a fighter of the assault unit, the enemy 
trenches were divided into zones for a competent offensive.
 
"We jumped into their trenches, controlled the positions, that is, 
we worked with the guys, covered each other, divided sectors, 
went in carefully, threw grenades," the serviceman said.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry announced the liberation of the 
village of Timofeyevka in the DPR on January 24. Military 
personnel of the Center Group of Forces units --- 
participated in the offensive operation.

The 
locality is located to the east of
the city 
of Krasnoarmeysk.
 
Watch the full report on the battle for the village of Timofeyevka
 on January 28 in the program "Vesti at 20: 00" on the TV 
channel "Russia".
 


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A Leningrad blockade runner 
buried her great-grandson, 
who died on her own land.
by Salima Zarif
January 27th, 10:24pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Blockade runner Irina Zimneva buried her great-grandson, who
 fought with neo-Nazis in the special military operation zone. 
She said this on the air of "Russia".
 
January 27 marks the 81st anniversary of the complete lifting of the
 siege of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War. The woman paid 
tribute to the victims who died at the hands of the Nazi invaders. 
For her, this is a personal story, especially in light of the events
 in Ukraine.
 
"My great-grandson just died. We buried him on December 29.
The boy has now given his life, again --- in the fight against 
Nazism, against fascism," Zimneva said.
 
The siege of Leningrad lasted 872 days. The Nazis tried to wipe 
the city off the face of the earth. It was planned to achieve the 
goal by eliminating food supplies.
 
"We thought the war would never happen
 again," the blockade runner said.
 
2025 is declared the Year of Defender of the Fatherland in Russia.
This decision is a sign of the unquenchable memory of the 
events of the Great Patriotic War.
 


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The MoD of the Russian Federation --- 
reported on the exploits of Russian
 servicemen in the free zone
January 27th, 9pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The Ministry noted the actions of Junior Sergeant Danila Sinitsyn, 
who commanded the calculation of the artillery gun of the 
howitzer artillery battery and performed tasks for fire 
support of the unit in the defense of an 
important area.
 
Militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) attempted to attack 
the territory defended by the Sinitsyn battery. Immediately after 
this information was received by the serviceman, he began to 
defeat the enemy. Accurate fire from barrel artillery crew 
struck at the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 
destroying several vehicles and manpower. Thanks 
to Sinitsyn's professional actions, the enemy 
retreated, and the site remained under 
the control of Russian servicemen.
 
In addition, the Ministry of Defense drew attention to the merits of
 Private Sergei Vlasov, who acted as part of the multiple launch 
rocket system (MLRS) calculation and performed tasks to 
support Russian units in one of the important tactical 
areas of the offensive.
 
During the battle, Vlasov received the coordinates of the 
concentration of equipment and reserves of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine, preparing to attack the positions of 
Russian troops. After assessing the situation, he 
quickly and secretly moved the combat vehicle 
to a favourable firing position, made 
calculations, aimed at the target, 
and attacked the enemy forces.
 
As a result of the targeted salvo, the AFU militants suffered 
significant losses and, unable to introduce additional 
reserves into the battle, retreated. Thanks to 
Vlasov's skillful and competent actions, 
Russian units managed to repel 
the enemy's attack.
 
Earlier on January 27, the Russian Defense Ministry reported, that 
the crew of a T-80BV tank of a separate motorized rifle brigade of 
the 3rd Army Corps destroyed a tank and an infantry fighting 
vehicle (IFV) with two targeted hits on the APU in the 
Chasuyarsk direction of the special operation zone.
 
 
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which Russian 
President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, 
continues. The decision was made against the 
background of the worsening situation
 in the region.
 
 
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The Chechen fighter told how he 
crawled out to his comrades... 
for ten days
January 27th, 6:54pm
(RT.ru)
 
A Russian fighter with the call sign Chechen, told how 
he crawled out to his comrades with serious injuries,
 for ten days.
 
He told RT how his reconnaissance company was ambushed 
by the Ukrainian Armed Forces while performing a combat 
mission near Svatovo (LPR). The Ukrainian Armed Forces 
riddled UAZs with machine-gun fire, two colleagues 
were killed, and seven were wounded.
 
According to the Chechen, the remnants of the group were saved 
by the fact --- that the driver with broken legs was able to drive 
several hundred metres. After that, they tried to get out on 
the Ural, but that was also hit, the military man says.
 
"Everything in the car started to burn, I somehow got out of it. 
Then I remember vaguely: the battle began, I fired several 
bursts, rolled into a ditch along the road and lost 
consciousness," he said.
 
The explosive wave shattered the fighter's heels, and one of 
the bullets hit the hand. He lost consciousness. Colleagues 
were able to evacuate him - on an armoured personnel 
carrier - they were sure that the Chechen was dead.
 
 
 
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Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked 
the church near Shebekino 
with incendiary shells
January 27th, 4:44pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) with the use of an unmanned 
aerial vehicle (UAV) dropped an incendiary projectile on the Holy 
Trinity Church near Shebekino, Belgorod region. This is reported 
on January the 27th, on the website of the Belgorod and 
Starooskolskaya diocese of the Russian Orthodox 
Church (ROC).
 
The incident occurred the day before in the village of Murom. 
It is specified that the attack was carried out using a Baba 
Yaga drone, previously... using thermobaric projectiles. In 
addition, after the shelling, the UAV circled the structure 
for a long time and attacked fire trucks that arrived to 
extinguish the fire.
 
"As a result of a targeted attack and a strong fire, only the central 
dome of the temple was completely burned out and part of the 
mural inside was damaged," the publication says.
 
It is noted that minor damage was received on the wall 
of the temple. The building is promised to be restored.
 
Earlier in the day, the Governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav 
Gladkov announced an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on
 the city of Grayvoron. As a result, the glazing of a private house 
was damaged, the gas pipeline was broken. Power lines were 
also damaged, and part of the settlement was left without 
electricity.
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to strike at Russian 
territories against the background of a special operation 
in the Donbass, which was announced on February 24th, 
2022. The decision was made due to the aggravation of 
the situation in the region - due to shelling by the 
Ukrainian military.
 
 
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"Country.na" ------ most of the surveyed 
Ukrainians are ready for negotiations
January 27th, 3:42pm
(RT.ru)
 
More than half of the surveyed Ukrainian citizens - 
are ready for early negotiations to end the conflict.
 
This was reported by the publication "Country.na" 
with reference to a survey conducted by Socis.
 
"In December last year, 50.6% of respondents said 
they were in favour of "finding a compromise 
solution with the involvement of leaders
of 
other countries," the publication's 
Telegram channel says.
 
In addition, 19.5% of respondents were in favour of 
"suspending hostilities and temporarily freezing 
the conflict."
 
Earlier, a survey conducted by the Democratic Initiatives 
Foundation in Ukraine, showed that every third young 
person wants to leave the country forever after the 
borders are opened.
 
 
 
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Fighter of the Russian
Armed Forces Ryazan: 
APU killed 15 soldiers
for refusing to defend
 Velikaya Novoselka
January 27th, 2:01pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Ukrainian Armed Forces militants shot about 15 of their colleagues 
who refused to defend Velikaya Novoselka village in the DPR. This 
was stated in an interview with the TASS news agency, by a 
Russian fighter with the call sign Ryazan.
 
The serviceman explained that Ukrainian prisoners told about the 
shootings. Later, a basement was found in Velikaya Novoselka, 
where the AFU militants killed their colleagues.
 
"During the assault operations, servicemen of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine were captured. During the conversation with them, not 
only the enemy's firing points, the main defense areas were 
revealed, but also information that not all the servicemen 
of the 110th brigade were set up for a counter battle 
with us," Ryazan added.
 
Velikaya Novoselka was liberated on January the 26th, in 2025. 
 
According to the estimates of Russian fighters, just in the north-
eastern part of the village ---- up to 500 militants of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine, were destroyed.
 
In addition, 100s of weapons were found in the village
----- from mines, to Javelin anti-tank missile systems.
 
 
 
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The great-grandson of the Great Patriotic War
veteran, Sadykov, was killed in the SVO zone 
January 27th, 10:40am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The great-grandson of the Hero of Russia, veteran of the Great 
Patriotic War Ibragim Pasha Sadykov, Kerim Makhmudov, died 
in the area of a special military operation.
 
The head of Dagestan, Sergey Melikov, wrote in his Telegram 
channel that Kerim Makhmudov voluntarily went to the free
 defense zone and showed courage and perseverance 
until the last battle.
 
He, like his great-grandfather, sought to eradicate Nazism. 
Kerim's other great-grandfather was also a veteran of the 
Great Patriotic War.
 
 
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Defense Ministry --- The Russian Armed Forces 
liberated Nikolaevo-Darino in the Kursk region
January 27th, 10:04am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russia's troops liberated Nikolaevo-Daryino, in the Kursk region, 
according to the daily summary of the Russian Defense Ministry.
 
The settlement was liberated by the forces of the group of troops 
"North" of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Earlier, 
the Telegram channel Shot wrote about the release of 
Nikolaevo-Daryino. According to him, the Ukrainian 
army lost more than 100 fighters of the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces in the battle for the village.
 
Nikolaevo-Darino is a village in the Sudzhansky district of the 
Kursk region, where clashes have been taking place since 
August 6. During this time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces 
lost more than 50 thousand people in the region.
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation 
January 27th, 9:15am
 
In Kharkov direction, the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses
on formations of one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU &
one territorial defence brigade near Velikiye Prokhody 
and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU lost up to 15 troops, three field 
artillery guns, and an ammunition depot.
 
The Zapad Group of Forces has improved the tactical situation. 
Russian troops inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of
 three mechanised brigades, an assault brigade of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine, and one territorial defence brigade -- near 
Redkodub, Kutkovka, Kupyansk, Zagoruykovka, Glushkovka, 
Boguslavka, Zeleny Gai, Kopanki (Kharkov region), Kolodezi, 
and Yampol (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The enemy losses amounted to up to 355 troops, seven 
pick-up trucks, and five field artillery guns. Three 
ammunition depots were destroyed.
 
The Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and 
positions. Losses were inflicted on formations of two 
mechanised brigades, one assault brigade, plus an 
airmobile brigade of the AFU, and two territorial 
defence brigades near Seversk, Vasyukovka, 
Orekhovo-Vasilyevka ---- and Chasov Yar, 
Konstantinovka, Dachnoye, as well as
Ulakly (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU sustained losses of up to 250 troops, one infantry
 fighting vehicle, two motor vehicles, and 2 field artillery
 guns. Two ammunition depots were destroyed.
 
The Tsentr Group of Forces - continued advancing to the depth 
of enemy defences. Russian troops delivered strikes - on the
manpower and hardware of five mechanised brigades, one 
motorised infantry brigade, one jaeger brigade of the AFU,
 two National Guard brigades, and one brigade of the 
National Police of Ukraine close to Dzerzhinsk, 
Baranovka, Shevchenko, Slavyanka, 
Yasenovoye, Novoyelizavetovka, 
and Andreyevka (Donetsk 
People's Republic)
 
The enemy lost up to 610 troops, four armoured 
fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, and 
six field artillery guns.
 
As a result of decisive actions of the Vostok Group of Forces units, 
Velikaya Novoselka (Donetsk People's Republic) was liberated.
 
Strikes were delivered on formations of one tank brigade, one 
mechanised brigade of the AFU, and one National Guard 
brigade close to Bogatyr and Vremevka (Donetsk 
People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to more than 160 troops, 
a tank, four motor vehicles, and four artillery guns
 including a Polish-made 155-mm Krab self-
propelled artillery system.
 
The Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower 
and hardware of two coastal defence brigades of the 
AFU and one territorial defence brigade near 
Pridneprovskoye and Antonovka 
(Kherson region).
 
The AFU lost up to 35 troops, four motor 
vehicles, and one ammunition depot.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, 
Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces 
have engaged the infrastructure of military airfields, drone 
manufacturing workshops, POL bases, as well as clusters 
of enemy manpower and hardware in 149 areas.
 
Air defence systems shot down four U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS 
projectiles and 64 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 41,571 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,858 tanks and other armoured 
fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,010 field 
artillery guns and mortars, and 30,830 units of support 
military vehicles, have been neutralised.
 
 
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Pushilin announced the expansion of 
the zone of control of the Russian
Armed Forces - in all directions 
of the front
January 27th, 7:04am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops have advanced in all directions of the front in 
the Donetsk People's Republic, in particular, in recent days 
our fighters have liberated the settlements of Velyka 
Novoselka and Zelyone. This was announced on 
the air of the TV channel "Russia 24" by the 
head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
 
According to him, Velikaya Novoselka is part of the agglomeration 
with the villages of Vremevka and Neskuchnoye, which were a 
serious fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). 
These settlements in the south-Donetsk direction were 
liberated by the Russian Armed Forces. 
 
On the Kurakhovsky and Krasnolimansky directions, the expansion 
of the zone of control by Russian units is being recorded. In the 
Red Army sector of the front, our fighters are working to 
disrupt the logistics of the Kiev regime.
 
Pushilin also noted the advance of Russian
 troops in Dzerzhinsk and Chasov Yar.
 
"In Dzerzhinsk, we see that the Toretskaya mine is the last fortified 
area where the enemy still remains ----- but the situation changes 
- literally - every day. We see the progress of our units. The main
 battles are taking place in the western part of Chas Yar: the 
enemy is trying to cling to the last high-rise buildings and 
still has the opportunity to hold on there, but our units 
are moving --- and moving forward," the head of the 
republic said.
 
The general advance of Russian troops in the DPR allows 
the residents of Donbass to "get on peaceful rails" and 
concentrate on reconstruction work and development 
of their settlements, Pushilin summed up.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry announced the liberation of 
Velikaya Novoselka in the DPR, on January 26th. The 
settlement was taken under control by the forces 
of the Vostok group of troops.
 
 
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Soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
---- posed as civilians in Chasovy Yar
January 27th, 4:29am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Ukrainian servicemen in Chasovy Yar wore civilian clothes,
posing as local residents. This was stated in an interview 
with RIA Novosti by a resident of the city, Pavel Morkovin.
 
According to him, the APU mortars were stationed in a 
nearby vegetable garden, and there was also a radar 
covered with a net.
 
"Their commander had a tag – the 17th brigade, and before I 
came - the 27th brigade. It was clear from these, who they 
were. Well, the rest of the citizens.. were dressed 
accordingly, they could be mistaken for 
civilians - if you don't know," 
said Morkovin.
 
The local resident added, that the soldiers dressed in civilian 
clothes could thus disguise themselves from Russian drones.
 
The Russian offensive on Chasov Yar began in late spring 2024. 
Its release will allow Russian troops to develop an offensive 
against the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
 
 
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Military commander Kulko: stormtroopers of
 the Russian Armed Forces --- captured the 
bunker of NATO generals in Chasovy Yar
January 26th, 10:24pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Military correspondent Dmitry Kulko in his Telegram channel 
reported that Russian soldiers captured a network of 
powerful fortifications in the south of Chasova Yar.
It was created by the Kiev army, on the territory 
of the forest recreation centre “Chasovoyarets" 
even before the start of the special 
military operation.
 
According to the military commander, in 2023, officers of NATO and 
the Kiev army will be stationed in the underground command post. 
In 2024 the bunker was destroyed by an Iskander strike. Probably, 
then --- the Polish General, Adam Marczak, was eliminated.
 
"Stormtroopers of the Russian Armed Forces took the
 bunker of NATO generals in Chas Yar," Kulko wrote.
 
He added that ------- before the capture by the Russian military, the
 fortifications were used by the militants of the 24th Lviv brigade 
of the Kiev regime army, which opposed the Russian Armed 
Forces in Chas Yar ....and was defeated.
 
Earlier, military expert Andrey Marochko said that a significant part
 of Chasova Yar is under the control of the Armed Forces of the 
Russian Federation. In the city, Russian soldiers completely 
cleared the basements and workshops of the refractory 
plant, for which ---- there were persistent battles.
 
 
 
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Employees of the shopping centre 
kidnapped and beat up the son of
 a writer who expelled Russians
 from Ukraine
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the
Operational Information Dept)
January 25th, 10:52pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Employees of the territorial recruitment centre (TCCC, 
analogous to a military enlistment office) kidnapped 
and beat the son of writer Victoria Koltunova, who
 had previously called for... the expulsion of 
Russians from Ukraine. She told about 
this on Facebook (a social network 
banned in Russia; owned by Meta 
Corporation, recognized as anti-
Russian and banned).
 
According to her, the young man was taken out of the city, 
despite the fact that he had all the documents - that his 
mother and wife are disabled people of the second 
group. He was "beaten for about three hours"
had money extorted, and was then thrown
--- 
unconscious --- onto the road.
 
Koltunova said that her son was seriously injured, his ribs 
were broken, his lung was punctured, and his brain was 
concussed. He underwent surgery, but this failed.
 
In 2008, the writer reviewed the film "Ukraine. 
Becoming a Nation", in which -- she called on 
all those who consider themselves Russians
- to leave the territory of Ukraine for Russia.
 
Earlier in Kharkiv, employees of the shopping centre
forcibly mobilized a taxi driver. They cut off the car,
beat the man, and forcibly took him to the military 
registration and enlistment office.
 
 
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 Ukraine fighter reports the entry of 
Russian troops - in a strategically
important village, by Kurakhovo
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the 
Operational Information Dept)
January 25th, 10:34pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
A fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) with the call sign 
Muchnoy, reported that Russian troops had entered Andreevka, 
a strategically important village in the Kurakhovsky direction.
 His words are quoted by "Country.na".
 
He explained that the settlement is located north of the highway
 from Kurakhovo to the west, and control over it, is critically 
important for Ukrainian units west of the city.
 
According to Muchny, heavy fighting continues for Andreevka, 
the Russian Armed Forces are trying to gain a foothold there. 
They are also moving north of Sukhoi Yalov.
 
 
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Private Budaev helped clean up the 
AFU stronghold in the SVO zone 
January 25th, 10pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Private Alexander Budaev, as part of the unit, participated in the 
liberation of one of the settlements in the zone of the special 
military operation and discovered a disguised stronghold of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
 
Using the terrain, Budaev managed to sneak into the enemy's 
flank unnoticed and attack. The effect of surprise - made it 
possible to inflict serious damage to the AFU - and the 
enemy, which was not ready for an attack, lost some 
of its personnel. While Budaev turned the enemy's 
attention to himself, Russian soldiers broke into 
the stronghold and cleaned it out.
 
After that, the private was engaged in the defense of 
new frontiers, opposing the enemy, who tried to 
return the position back under its control,
without result.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the competent actions 
of private Yevgeny Baykov, who together with his unit held 
positions at an important tactical line. The Ukrainian 
Armed Forces, which tried to regain the positions 
from which they had previously retreated, sent 
their assault groups to the Russian borders.
 
Baykov fired at the advancing enemy, moving competently 
and professionally holding his positions. The assault 
groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost a 
significant part of their personnel and 
were forced to retreat.
 
 
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A teacher from Krasnoyarsk 
went to the SVO to help 
his son
January 25th, 5:40pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Dmitry, an OBZH teacher from the city of Sharypovo in the 
Krasnoyarsk Territory, went to the SVO zone a year and 
a half after his son Artem left. On the "citizen" he was 
a lifeguard and teacher of the military-patriotic club.
 
According to the Telegram channel SHOT, Artem was 
mobilized in September 2022, his father came to
him,
 last summer.
 
The man - at first - just worked in the location of the unit, 
doing everything he could. He also repaired machinery 
and looked after the generators.
 
In the Autumn, 48-year-old Dmitry signed a contract with 
the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 
received the call sign Technician - and began
to 
fight in the same platoon with his son.
 
He also said, that he should gain experience in emergency 
situations himself, so that later he can teach reasonable 
behaviour to children.
 
Dmitry is supported by teachers from all over Siberia. They, 
together with the Popular Front, organized the delivery of 
night vision devices and a portable drone detector to 
the unit.
 
 
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Slovak Prime Minister Fico: Ukraine 
will lose a third of its territory 
due to the conflict
January 25th, 1:37pm
(RT.ru)
 
As a result of the conflict, Ukraine will lose a third of its territory. 
This opinion was expressed by the Prime Minister of Slovakia 
Robert Fico on the air of the program "Saturday Dialogues".
 
"I will say once again: everything will end with Ukraine in such a 
way that it will lose a third of its territory and be occupied by 
foreign troops," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
 
He wondered if it was worth tens or hundreds of thousands of 
deaths. In his opinion, the citizens of Ukraine themselves 
will have to answer this question "in the near future".
 
Earlier, Fico said that foreign instructors who destabilize the 
situation in the country will be expelled from the country.
 
 
 
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Professor Malinen: with the suspension of 
US aid to Kiev, only negotiations remain
January 25th, 1:30pm
(RT.ru)
 
After the suspension of US military assistance in Ukraine,
 Vladimir Zelensky will only have to negotiate.
 
This was stated by Tuomas Malinen, a professor at the 
University of Helsinki, on his page in the social network.
 
"The US military assistance to Ukraine seems to have been 
stopped. This means that Zelensky has only one option — 
to negotiate," he said.
 
Earlier, Irish journalist Chay Bose said that Zelensky
 will be remembered --  as a puppet of the West.
 
 

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The head of the UAV crew "Superkam" 
told about the destruction of military 
equipment of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine
January 25th, 12:51pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Operators of the group of troops "West" - opened the positions 
and equipment of the enemy. This was stated in an exclusive 
interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel by the head of the
 Supercam UAV crew with the call sign Radion.
 
The Superkam unmanned aerial reconnaissance vehicle patrols 
the area around the clock in order to identify enemy positions, 
which are then used by artillery. Radion shared that thanks to
 "Superkami" for the Russian army remain profitable frontiers, 
and for the enemy - the loss of 400 soldiers.
 
"During the work of the Supercam calculations, the Patriot anti-
aircraft missile system, the Vampire multiple launch rocket 
system, HIMARS, the Caesar and Paladin self-propelled 
guns were identified and destroyed. This -- is all 
confirmed by objective control data, so the 
information is reliable," said the head of
 the calculation.
 
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that 
during the day, the Russian Armed Forces shot 
down three HIMARS shells and 44 drones.
 
 
 
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The underground reported a strike on 
the village of Alexsevka, where the 
AFU detachments arrived
January 25th, 12:22pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian army hit the village of Alekseyevka, where the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces units had arrived shortly before. 
 
This was announced by the coordinator of the Nikolaev 
pro-Russian resistance Sergey Lebedev in the 
Telegram channel.
 
He noted that local residents began to leave the village as soon 
as they learned about the approaching Ukrainian army. At the 
time of the arrival of the AFU detachments, the village was 
already empty.
 
"In the Sumy region, 4 FABs arrived in the village of Alekseyevka. 
On the eve, the replenishment of the Armed Forces stopped by. 
They settled in abandoned houses and hid equipment on the 
territory of former industrial enterprises in the north-
western part of the village," Lebedev said, in 
a statement.
 
Earlier, the underground also reported a strike by Russian fighters 
on a camp of foreign mercenaries near Kharkiv. In addition, 
Lebedev spoke about the strike on a Ukrainian facility
 in the port of Odessa.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt..... to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 25th, 10:15am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
continue the operation to neutralise an 
enemy group, which broke into the 
territory of Kursk region.
 
During the offensive, the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire 
damage on units of a tank brigade, a heavy mechanised 
brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air assault 
brigades, a marine brigade, and three territorial 
defence brigades of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine close to Viktorovka, Zazulevka, 
Zaoleshenka, Lebedevka, and Malaya 
Loknya, Makhnovka, Melovoy, plus
Nikolayevka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, 
Nikolsky, Rubanshchina, Sudzha, 
Sverdlikovo, Staraya Sorochina, 
& Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. 
One AFU counter-attack 
was repelled.
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and Artillery --- engaged 
AFU manpower and hardware close to Bogdanovka, Viktorovka, 
Guyevo, Kazachya Loknya, Pervy Knyazhy, Kruglenkoye, 
Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Malaya Loknya, 
Martynovka, Makhnovka, Melovoy, Mirny, plus
Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Sverdlikovo, 
Starya Sorochina, Sudzha, Cherkasskoye 
Porechnoye, Yuzhny, Basovka, Belovody, 
Veselovka, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, 
Miropolye, and Yunakovka 
in Sumy region.
 
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 190 
troops, three tanks, including a U.S.-made Abrams tank, three
 armoured personnel carriers, five armoured fighting vehicles, 
six motor vehicles, a U.S.-made M777 howitzer, two mortars, 
an electronic warfare station as well as six UAV control 
posts, and an ammunition depot.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses 
amounted to more than 54,460 troops, 318 tanks, 237 infantry 
fighting vehicles, 183 armoured personnel carriers, 1,613 
armoured fighting vehicles, 1,602 motor vehicles, 388 
artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of 
HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the US, 16 anti
-aircraft missile launchers, 8 transport-loading 
vehicles, 99 EW stations, 14 counter-battery 
warfare radars, four air defence radars, 32 
units of engineering and other materiel, 
including 13 counterobstacle vehicles,
 one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, 9 
armoured recovery vehicles, and 
one command post vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise the AFU units,
 is in progress.
 
 
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Designer of the Microbe drone Gryaznov: 
IT specialists are also patriots
January 25th, 9:46am
(Vesti.ru)
 
IT specialists are also patriots of the country and are ready to 
defend their homeland to the best of their abilities. This was 
reported to the Rossiya TV channel by the designer of 
Microbe drones and a former employee of the 
information technology sector, 
Alexander Gryaznov.
 
The specialist shared that it was important for him to show that IT 
specialists are also patriots of the Motherland, although they are 
not tied to a particular country. Therefore, he created an 
enterprise that produces Microbe drones.... which help 
soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces in the free zone.
 
Earlier it became known that kamikaze drones "Microbe" 
with artificial intelligence.... were sent to the zone of 
free defense.
 
 
 
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The commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
went to the wrong floor and was captured 
by Russian stormtroopers.
January 25th, 6:39am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Ukrainian commander during the fighting in a multi-storey 
building in the city of Kurakhovo.. mistakenly went down to 
the floor where the Russian military were located.... and 
was captured. Later, he also persuaded his colleagues 
to surrender.
 
This was announced by a fighter of the Russian assault group 
of the 110th motorized rifle brigade with the call sign Nifer
 in a conversation with RIA Novosti.
 
He explained that during the battles for the high-rise building, 
Russian stormtroopers took up positions on the first floor. 
Above, Ukrainian militants continued to hold the line.
 
"It was getting dark. They (the Ukrainian military. - Editor's note) 
they wanted to "steer" us. And the commander of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine came down to us – he did not understand 
that these were Russian soldiers standing there. We 
captured him," the Russian fighter said.
 
Realizing that the commander was captured, another Ukrainian
 militant also decided to surrender and went down to the first
 floor ...to join the Russian stormtroopers.
 
"We let the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine go back 
to talk to his own people, so that they would surrender. The 
commander went, came back, and we went... to talk to 
them," Nifer added.
 
The stormtrooper explained that -- when he entered the Ukrainian 
military, he made it clear to them that the Russian military would 
not open fire on them, the Kiev regime militants understood this 
and also did not shoot.
 
"We explained to them that no one would torture or kill them," 
he said.
 
According to him, the wounded prisoners were given medical care, 
then the surrendered prisoners were fed. At the same time, the 
Ukrainian military did not inform their commanders that they 
had surrendered. They assured their superiors that they 
were still on the upper floors and "everything was 
in order."
 
"So we fooled them for two days - we gave them orders (through 
prisoners) so that they wouldn't shoot at us... On the third day, 
by lunchtime, the prisoner again, reports on the radio: 
"Everything is fine" -- and in five minutes our people 
hang the flag on a high-rise building," the Russian 
stormtrooper explained.
 
He added that when Russian soldiers began to take prisoners out of 
the high-rise building, one Ukrainian soldier was killed by "his own" 
with the help of a drone, and another was killed by a mine. In the 
morning, Nifer told his command that he would withdraw the 
remaining prisoners, without informing them about the 
time of the advance, so that this information would 
not be intercepted.
 
The Russian stormtrooper said they had begun evacuating while 
there was a lull. He was able to bring out both the prisoners 
and his wounded colleagues, and the high-rise building, 
according to him, was occupied by "guys from 
allied units."
 
The Russian Defense Ministry - announced the liberation of the city 
of Kurakhovo in the Donetsk People's Republic on January 6, 2025. 
It is the most important city in the south-western part of Donbass. 
 
A group of troops liberated the village of Yuzhnaya, which 
included the 5th and 110th separate motorized 
rifle brigades.
 
 
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Marochko: fierce battles are taking place
 near Novoegorovka in the LPR
January 25th, 1:58am
(Vesti.ru)
 
At the liberated Novoegorovka in the LPR, Russian troops are
 engaged in fierce battles, military expert Andrey Marochko
 told TASS.
 
According to him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying 
to put pressure from two directions at once.
 
"There now (in the area of Novoegorovka – editor's note), 
the enemy is trying to push from the north-west and 
from the south-west direction," TASS quotes 
Marochko as saying.
 
He noted that at present, the Russian military is conducting 
maneuverable defense in the area of this settlement, and
 planned combat work is being carried out.
 
Earlier, Marochko reported that Russian fighters near the village
of Makeyevka, deprived the Ukrainian military of a tactical 
advantage. Out of desperation, the enemy was forced 
to leave several more positions.
 
 
 
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Private Klimovich brought a car with cargo 
for the Russian Armed Forces - out of the 
shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
January 4th, 9:30pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Junior Sergeant Pavel Zyabkin commanded the automatic 
grenade launcher crew and eliminated two machine-gun 
points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
 
Zyabkin's team moved into position when a junior sergeant 
discovered two firing positions of Ukrainian machine 
gunners. He gave the command to the calculation, 
the enemy was eliminated, after which, the 
Russian attack aircraft were able to freely 
approach the AFU stronghold and clear it.
 
During the battle, Zyabkin also discovered a group of enemy 
infantry in a car, which was approaching the positions of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine as reinforcements. The 
junior sergeant destroyed the enemy group, which 
allowed the Russian troops to gain a foothold 
on new frontiers.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the competent and 
professional actions of Private Alexander Klimovich, who 
performed tasks related to the delivery of material and 
technical property to Russian units. During the next 
flight, his car was attacked by artillery and mortar 
crews of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. After 
conducting a series of maneuvers on a 
difficult terrain, Klimovich managed to 
get the car out of the shelling and 
deliver the cargo to the positions 
of the Russian units in one piece.
 
Earlier, on January 24, the Defense Ministry reported that 
Lance Corporal Sergei Voevodin brought a car with cargo
 for the Russian group of troops from under the artillery 
fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 
Earlier, on January 23, the Russian Defense Ministry said that 
private Ilfat Garipov noticed the approach of a sabotage
 group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine when he was 
on combat duty at an observation post. 
 
Having decided to set up an ambush for the approaching 
enemy, Garipov found a suitable hiding place. When the 
saboteurs came closer, the private opened fire, 
causing serious damage to the enemy.
 
 

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The media reported the desertion of hundreds
 of soldiers from the 157th brigade of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine
January 24th, 8pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
At least a third of all military personnel of the 157th separate 
assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine voluntarily 
left its location. This was reported on January 24 by the 
Ukrainian publication Hromadske.
 
"This newly created brigade.. did not pass the necessary 
combat coordination, but it was immediately sent to 
the hottest destinations — Pokrovskoye and 
Kurakhovskoye. The command ignores 
relatives," the newspaper writes, 
referring to the words of 
military relatives.
 
One of the brigade's fighters told the newspaper that 48 new 
fighters were sent to the front line without training and all of
them died. No one took the bodies of their dead comrades.
 
Another serviceman noted that the brigade was being 
"dismantled for spare parts", hence the lack of 
coordinated work. He added that they are 
redirecting already created battalions
 to other sectors of the front.
 
It is specified that the 157th separate mechanized brigade 
began to be formed in the spring of 2024, and it began to 
perform combat tasks in November.
 
On January 20, a captured AFU militant Viktor Gordienko said 
that in the infantry, the place of commanders was occupied 
by sergeants who sent the military to defend positions 
without training and the necessary weapons reserves.
 
According to the prisoner, on one day he and his colleagues 
were brought to the dugout to the position and ordered to 
hold the defense. On December 29, 2024, they started 
shooting at them; one of the militants was killed, 
three escaped, Gordienko himself reached 
the nearest city through fields.
 
Earlier, on November 13 last year, Verkhovna Rada 
deputy Alexander Dubinsky estimated the daily
losses of Ukraine.... at 1,500 people.
 
 
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Rada deputy Fedina: Lviv orchestra 
will be sent to the frontline of the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry
by Alexandra Sinitsyna 
(Night Line Editor)
January 24th, 6:48pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Lviv military band is going to be sent to the front line in the 
ranks of the infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This 
was stated by People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada,
 Sofia Fedina, in the Telegram channel.
 
"Musicians are very "super-efficient fighters". Unlike police 
officers, investigators, GBRovtsy, security officers - or
pensioners who were trained and know how to use 
weapons - after all, "Mama raised flowers" was 
for the front," the MP sneered.
 
Fedina added that at this rate, there will be no one 
to accompany Ukrainian heroes with music
 at funerals every day.
 
Earlier it was reported that the Austrian mercenary of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine Richard Schermann, was killed
 in the Zaporozhye region. A Russian drone was used 
against him.


 
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 Russia gave Ukraine 15 times more
 bodies of military personnel 
during the exchange
by Sergey Istomin (Editor 
of the "Russia" section)
January 24th, 1:21pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Another exchange of bodies of military personnel took place 
between Russia and Ukraine, which was held according to 
the formula 757 for 49. This was announced by military 
commander Evgeny Lisitsyn in Telegram.
 
Thus, Moscow handed over to Kiev about 
15 times more bodies than it received.
 
The Coordination Centre for the Treatment of Prisoners of War 
of Ukraine confirmed the information about the receipt of the 
remains of 757 soldiers. The Ukrainian side did not name the
 number of bodies returned to Russia.
 
The previous exchange of fallen servicemen was reported on 
December 20, 2024. Then, Russia handed over 503 bodies 
to Ukraine, receiving 42 in return.
 
In addition, on January 15, Moscow and Kiev exchanged 
prisoners of war according to the formula 25 for 25. 
The United Arab Emirates acted as a mediator 
in the procedure.
 
 
 
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The Ministry of Health ------- spoke about 
the condition of victims  - of the attack
by Ukraine's Armed Forces on Bekhty
January 24th, 1:05pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
After the shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine of 
Bekhter village in the Kherson region, 13 victims, 
including three children, remain in hospitals. 

This was announced on January 24th, by 
Assistant Minister of Health of Russia 
Alexey Kuznetsov.
 
He specified that three victims are in serious condition.
 
"One child and two adults are in serious condition, the 
rest are in a state of moderate severity," RIA Novosti 
quoted Kuznetsov as saying.
 
The shelling of Kazan, Rylsk and Oryol, showed the fear of the 
Ukrainian regime caused by the situation in the free defense 
zone.
 
The Armed forces of Ukraine attacked the village of Bekhty in the 
Kherson region on January 20. The cluster munition strike hit the 
area adjacent to the school. As a result of the attack, two people 
were killed and 25 others were injured.
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are firing daily at the territories of the 
Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as Zaporozhye 
and Kherson regions, against the background of a special 
operation to protect the Donbass, which Russia 
announced on February 24, 2022.

 
 
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Medvedev: about 450 thousand people 
entered the service under contract 
in 2024
January 24th, 11:47am
(Vesti.ru)
 
In 2024, about 450,000 people entered the service, under the 
contract. Another 40 thousand joined volunteer formations. 

This was stated by Deputy Chairman of the Russian 
Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev..... during a 
meeting of the Security Council Commission 
on the recruitment of contract soldiers.
 
He called it the fulfillment of the set tasks 
for recruitment over the past year.
 
"About 450 thousand people signed a contract for military service. 
In addition --- more than 40,000 of our citizens joined volunteer 
formations and went to the special military operation zone," 
Medvedev said.
 
He thanked all the Russians who voluntarily went to defend
 the Fatherland - for showing mutual assistance, genuine 
brotherhood, firmness of spirit, courage, and love
 for the Motherland.
 
Earlier, Medvedev said that in Russia, the contract 
is the only tool for attracting military personnel 
to participate in the SVO.
 
 
 
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US Professor Kuznik: Russia 
-- won the Ukrainian conflict
January 24th, 10:42am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Militarily, Russia has won the Ukrainian conflict. Peter Kuznik, 
a US professor and director of the Institute for Nuclear 
Research at the American University, shared his 
thoughts in an interview with the Rossiya 
24 TV channel.
 
In his opinion, the Russian Federation has built 
an effective strategy and the West will not be 
able to weaken it.
 
"Trump said, he wants to end the war in Ukraine. We all –
you and I -
want to end this war. And the longer it continues, the more tragic
it is for the Russian and Ukrainian peoples. If this continues for 
another six months or a year, in what state will we finally sit 
down at the negotiating table? The West wants to weaken 
Russia --- and teach it a lesson, and Zelensky wants to 
regain all the lost territories — this will not happen.
 Russia -- has won militarily: it has more weapons, 
more people & a better strategy at the moment. 
And even the majority of Ukrainians.... now - 
according to polls - say that they want to 
stop fighting and are ready to give up 
territories for this. All this --- is a 
catastrophe for Ukraine... a 
catastrophe for the whole
world," Kuznik said -- on 
Rossiya 24 TV channel.
 
According to the professor, the US president can influence the 
early end of the conflict: it is he who can stop Vladimir 
Zelensky - through pressure.
 
Actions against the head of the Kiev regime have already been 
taken by Trump. The other day, he made the first decision to 
stop helping Nezalezhnaya Square for 90 days. During this 
time, a check will be made on whether the allocation of 
aid meets the political goals of the new White House 
administration.
 
 
 
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Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: 
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed more 
than 12,500 militants and 29 tanks of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine
in a week
January 24th, 9:51am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian military personnel destroyed 12,815 militants and
29 tanks, including 2 US Abrams of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine, in the territory of a special military operation,
Russia's 
Defense Ministry said in a weekly summary.
 
The largest number of enemy personnel units was destroyed by 
units of the Center, West and North groups of troops – 9,610 
Ukrainian militants. The remaining 3205 soldiers of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed in the areas of 
responsibility of the units of the South, East and 
Dnipro groups of troops.
 
In addition, the Russian military destroyed 150 armoured combat 
vehicles, including 3 Bradleys, 18 M113 units and one MaxxPro 
and an HMMWV - each made in the US, a Finnish-made Pasi 
armoured personnel carrier, a French-made VAB armoured 
car, and other special & military equipment of the enemy.
 
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that 
one Abrams tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
was destroyed in the Kursk region.
 
 
 
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Rogov: the Russian flag is raised in 
the centre of Velikaya Novoselka
January 24th, 8:20am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian military raised the tricolor in Velikaya Novoselka in 
the west of the Donetsk People's Republic. The battle for the 
liberation of the settlement continues, Chairman of the 
Commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian 
Federation on sovereignty, co-chairman of the 
Coordination Council for the integration of 
new regions, Vladimir Rogov, told 
RIA Novosti.
 
He specified that the Russian flag is installed on the roof of a 
residential building. According to him, Russian fighters are 
expanding their control zone in Velikaya Novoselka.
 
"In the center of Velikaya Novoselka, our soldiers raised the 
Russian tricolor on one of the residential buildings. At the
 same time, the fighting for the complete liberation of 
the village --- continues," Rogov explained.
 
 
 
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Russian soldiers remotely cleared a road 
on the left bank of the Dnieper River... 
with drones
January 24th, 8:08am
(Vesti.ru)
 
It is more convenient to use drones to clear the road remotely. 
This was stated on the air of the TV channel "Russia 24" by 
the commander of the mine clearance company with the 
call sign Chelyabinsk.
 
He said that the task of his fighters was to clear one of the roads 
on the liberated left side of the Dnieper River from the mines of 
the Kiev regime militants. Drones, in dangerous areas shot by 
the enemy, are used --- for personal safety.
 
"Drones, of course, are more convenient. First – we save the lives 
of ourselves and our personnel," Chelyabinsk explained.
 
Also, drones help mine enemy water routes – channels near
islands and backwaters. Floating ammunition prevents
boats from landing Ukrainian militants.
 
"They are still trying only to swim across the Dnieper, but they are 
not succeeding," said the sapper-UAV operator with the call sign 
Zohan. "We mine the water, and they can't get in."
 
According to Zohan, the water mines are equipped with a float. 
When an enemy boat or boat hits it, the mine explodes.
 
 
 
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TASS: The Russian Armed Forces "cut"
 the AFU brigade in half in Velikaya 
Novoselka in the DPR
January 24th, 7:16am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian military surrounded a group of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine in Velikaya Novoselka in the Donetsk People's 
Republic, "cutting" the settlement in half. This was 
reported to TASS by law enforcement agencies.
 
It is noted ----- that the militants of the Kiev regime are 
completely blocked in the southern part of the village.
 
"The 110th brigade [of the Armed Forces of Ukraine] will no longer 
leave if it does not hand over its weapons. They are in the 
southern part and completely blocked. Novoselka 
itself is divided in half," the text says.
 
Earlier, Igor Kimakovsky, an adviser to the head of the DPR, said in
 a comment to Russia 24 that the defense of the Ukrainian army 
near Velikaya Novoselka collapsed. As of January 23, there 
was only sporadic resistance, mainly in the north of the 
village. The 110th Brigade of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine was issued an ultimatum to surrender. 
 
There are about 1,500 Ukrainian militants 
in the cauldron.
 
 
 
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Major Shchekochikhin said that the forces 
of the Russian Armed Forces --- entered 
Petrovka along the forest belt
January 24th, 6:15am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation liberated the village of 
Petrovka, entering there in small groups along the forest belt and 
railway. The commander of the assault squad of the 15th 
motorized Rifle Brigade, Major Oleg Shchekochikhin, 
told Rossiya TV channel about this.
 
The fighter told how stormtroopers entered the village.
 
"The main road, along which our commandos entered 
along the forest belt, along the railway, seeped into
the village of Petrovka," the major said.
 
He noted - that the offensive was also launched from 
the westernmost part of the settlement. There, the 
Russian Armed Forces..... crossed the river. The 
enemy did not expect this and was not ready.
 
Earlier.... it became known that commandos of 
the Russian Armed Forces, released civilians 
during the capture of Petrovka in the DPR.
 
 
 
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Ivlev called Syrsky's words about 
the AFU counteroffensive 
a smoke screen
January 24th, 4:20am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The State Duma Deputy commented on the statements of 
the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
Alexander Syrsky about the counteroffensive, calling 
them an attempt to manipulate public opinion.
 
State Duma deputy from Crimea, Major General of the 
reserve, Leonid Ivlev, criticized Syrsky's rhetoric.
 
"The enemy is never simple-minded and resorts to various tricks. 
Syrsky is trying to create a smoke screen... in conditions when 
the strategic and operational-tactical initiative, is completely
on the side of the Russian army," the parliamentarian noted.
 
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian troops have 
already liberated 801 sq. kilometres of territory in the Kursk 
region - which is 63.2% of the territory originally occupied 
by Ukrainian units. Ivlev noted how the Ukrainian Armed 
Forces are losing on all fronts, and soldiers are 
surrendering en masse.
 
"The Ukrainian Armed Forces are losing on all fronts. Whether it is 
the Donbass or the Kursk region. And the soldiers of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine are already surrendering in platoons. Wow, 
there's a lot of optimism about Syrsky," he said.
 
The MP pointed out that Syrsky's statements are mostly 
informational in nature and are aimed at obtaining 
support from the new administration of the 
United States and NATO countries.
 
"This is the sad goal of the Kiev regime – to fight 
to the last Ukrainian," Ivlev said.
 
On August 6, 2024, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted 
an offensive in the Kursk region, which was completely stopped 
by Russian troops. According to the Chief of the General Staff 
of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov, the operation 
will be completed --- by defeating the enemy with access to 
the state border.
 
Earlier, Commander-in-Chief Syrsky admitted that total 
mobilization in Ukraine does not help cover the needs 
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - in infantry.
 
 
 
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Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
were impressed ---- by the work of
the 
commandos of the Russian 
Armed Forces in Kurakhov 
--- and surrendered
January 24th, 1:51am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian attack aircraft showed high combat skills in clearing 
high-rise buildings in Kurakhov and forced the enemy to 
surrender, said the commander of the assault 
company with the call sign Nifer, in an 
interview with RIA Novosti.
 
Captured Ukrainian servicemen noted the coherence 
of these actions and the superiority of the Russian 
assault company.
 
"You came in as special forces, as skilled guys. We looked at you, 
how you work, how you dropped by, that we didn't even notice 
you, and how you shoot," RIA Novosti quoted a captured 
Ukrainian soldier as saying.
 
The Ukronazis were afraid of the assault and realized that they had
 nowhere to go. They conducted chaotic shooting on the principle 
of "anywhere". Russian attack aircraft, when clearing and 
entering enemy positions, make one or two shots at the
 target and move on, said Nifer.
 
The enemy was waiting for support from other units of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine (AFU). But the Russian attack aircraft also 
expected this and rebuffed the units of the Armed Forces
 of Ukraine that arrived to help.
 
"We drew them last night. They were given them, watered with all 
kinds of weapons. And they retreated and never came near us 
again. Yes, they were most afraid that we entered smoothly,
work smoothly --- and do not have such a thing that we 
shoot into the void," Nifer concluded.
 
On January 6, the Ministry of Defense announced the release 
of Kurakhov. The city is 40 km from Donetsk and 30 km from 
Krasnoarmeysk. Kurakhovo is the largest settlement in the 
south-western part of the Donbas and has an important 
operational significance. The liberation of the city 
creates a springboard for the Russian army's 
offensive in the Zaporizhia region along 
the Zaporizhia-Donetsk highway.
 


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  Retreating Ukrainian Officer 
Hides Behind Child
January 21st, 2025
(SouthFront)
 
Russian military reporters are sharing an interesting video
filmed by a Russian FPV drone on the Ukrainian frontlines.
 
Russian drone operators - spotted a vehicle of the Ukrainian 
command staff moving in the rear on the Donetsk frontlines. 
The decision to attack the enemy was made immediately 
but at the moment when the UAV was approaching the 
target, the passengers rushed away from it.
 
Two people - jumped out of the car. The driver ran away and fell 
on the ground nearby, the officer - surprisingly - got out with a 
child in his arms. The Ukrainian officer was hiding behind 
the child. The driver and the passengers were well 
aware from where the Russian drone was 
approaching them - and it is not a 
coincidence, that the officer 
turned out to be behind 
the child.
 
Fortunately, Russian soldiers timely assessed 
the situation and managed to turn the drone 
away at the very last moment.
 
It is not clear.. why a child was taken to the frontlines. 
The Ukrainian officer could evacuate him to the rear. 
Taking into account this officer’s attitude, it should 
not be excluded that the poor child could be a 
victim of black transplantologists who are 
very active in the war-torn country. 
 
Anyway, the actions of Ukrainian officers are another 
clear example of the attitude of Ukrainian neo-nazis
 to the civilian population.
 
 
 
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Assault group of Sergeant Yerofeyev
 captured the AFU stronghold 
without losses
January 21st, 9:45pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Sergeant Vladimir Yerofeyev commanded an assault group in
one of the important areas of the Russian offensive, and 
managed to capture a stronghold of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine (AFU) without losses. The Ministry of 
Defense of the Russian Federation reported on 
the exploits of Russian army soldiers in 
performing combat tasks - in the zone
 of a special military operation (SVO).
 
Yerofeyev's group was assigned the task of capturing an enemy 
stronghold near the village. The servicemen moved forward to
complete the task. On the way - they were almost discovered 
by a Ukrainian reconnaissance drone, but Yerofeyev noticed 
its approach in time by a characteristic sound and ordered 
them to take cover under the rubble of trees.
 
The group managed to get to the stronghold unnoticed. 
The enemy, who did not expect an attack, suffered 
losses and was forced to retreat. Russian attack 
aircraft captured opornik in a short time -- and 
without losses.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the dedication of the 
driver of the BARS-32 detachment, Vitaly Dandyl, who was 
transporting three wounded Russian servicemen from 
the front line to the medical unit when the car was 
attacked by an enemy FPV drone. The vehicle 
caught fire.
 
Despite the threat to life, Dandyl pulled the wounded soldiers 
out of the burning car and moved them to the nearest 
wooded area, hiding them from enemy drones. 
The driver supported the vital functions of 
the victims, until the evacuation team 
arrived at the scene.
 
 
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Kadyrov announced the destruction of 
the Starlink of the Ukrainian Armed 
Forces in the Kharkiv region
by Alexandra Sinitsyna
 (Night Line Editor)
January 21st, 6:53pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Firing positions with the Starlink satellite communication system,
 as well as the manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) 
were destroyed -- in the Kharkiv region. This was stated
in the Telegram channel by the head of Chechnya,
Ramzan Kadyrov.
 
"Skilful actions of our drone guides revealed the movement of 
manpower, their shelters, as well as equipped firing positions 
with the Starlink satellite communication system in forest 
plantations. The data was passed to the artillery, which 
covered the enemy's concentration with precise 
strikes," Kadyrov said.
 
According to the head of Chechnya, the personnel of the Zapad-
Akhmat battalion of the Russian Defense Ministry and the 
Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for 
the Kurchaloyevsky district of the Chechen Republic 
were engaged in the elimination of enemy forces 
and equipment, along with servicemen of the 
116th separate special purpose brigade 
"Steel" --- of the Rosgvardiya.
 
Earlier, SpaceX announced that it was ceasing to 
finance the maintenance of Starlink, in Ukraine. 

The owner of the company, Elon Musk, offered 
the Pentagon to take over the payment for 
satellite Internet.. but then changed his 
mind and said that he would continue
 to finance it.
 
 
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In Ukraine reported about forced
 mobilization of a man out 
walking his dog
January 21st, 6:19pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
A resident of Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine was forcibly mobilized while 
walking his dog on the street. This was reported on January 
21 by the Ukrainian publication "Country.ua" in its
Telegram channel.
 
It published footage in which two men in the uniform of police 
officers and one in the equipment of an employee of the 
shopping centre (territorial recruitment centre, 
analogous to the military enlistment office) 
approached a citizen with a dog, began to 
push him to the fence-grid -- and then 
twisted and forced him into an 
official car. 
 
The Ukrainian tried to escape, but could not. All this time, 
the man's pet .............. was running around the car
of the 
military commissars.
 
After the mobilized man was taken away,
 the dog was left alone on the road.
 
Military registration and enlistment offices have
put on the ''wanted list'' over half a million men.
 
Earlier, on January 16, Ukrainian media reported that residents 
of the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine staged a riot against 
employees of the shopping centre and police officers. In the
footage of eyewitnesses, the rural road is loaded with 
official cars, and dozens of law enforcement officers 
with machine guns are visible on the streets. 
Women walk between cars in the video 
and are outraged because of the 
mobilization of men.
 
In Lviv, on January 7, military commissars beat a Ukrainian 
on the hands and feet during forced mobilization. Three 
men in the uniform of employees of the shopping 
centre, and one in civilian clothes ---- forced 
the citizen into their car.
 
Before that, on December 22, 2024, a man was killed in the 
military enlistment office in Odessa, trying to save his son
from mobilization. The Ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, 
Artem Dmytruk -- said that employees of the shopping 
centre, shot at the resident of Odessa. The former 
MP drew attention to the fact - that murders in 
military registration and enlistment offices 
have already become typical for Ukraine.
 
Martial law in Ukraine is effective from February 2022. At the same 
time, President Volodymyr Zelensky (powers expired on May 20th, 
2024) signed a decree on general mobilization. Later, the
 Verkhovna Rada repeatedly extended its validity. Most 
men between the ages of 18 and 60 - are prohibited 
from leaving the country. In April 2024, the head 
of the Kiev regime... approved a law on
tougher mobilization.
 
 
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The wounded commander of a tank company 
with the call sign Groom performed a feat 
near Pokrovsk
January 21st, 5:21pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
In early January, during the repulse of the AFU attack on the 
Pokrovsky direction, the commander of a tank company, 
Andrey Romanov, with the call sign Groom, was 
wounded in the eye and saved his colleagues. 
 
The military man of the Russian Armed Forces told the details 
of the incident in the program "Vesti with Alexey Kazakov" 
on the TV channel "Russia 24".
 
Romanov and his comrades first came under a raid by APU 
drones, and then suddenly ran an SUV over a mine. As a 
result, several soldiers were injured.
 
"The left wheel blew up --- I immediately flew out of the car, I woke up
on the ground. I hear screams - and the fact that drones were flying. 
The driver has very serious injuries. Naturally, we must immediately 
provide assistance and evacuate. There were five of us. Four 
people were taken on stretchers, including me, and started 
dragging them," says the tank company commander.
 
According to Andrey Romanov, they were picked up by a passing 
car. Due to the lack of places, the soldier decided to stay with 
his colleagues, and send the rest of the wounded by car.
 
"We found a place to stay for the night --- spent the night. We walked 
slowly along a well-trodden path to our own people, and came out.
We met their own people and they had already found out that the 
driver did not survive, unfortunately. And then - they looked
at me, they say, now there's a splinter in my eye. Let's go
to Donetsk. 
In Donetsk, the operation was immediately
performed - the 
fragment was taken out. Even then,
they said that I was 
lucky --- I kept my eyes,"
the commander added.
 
Romanov also said that as a result of the attack, one enemy tank
 was burned by the Russian Armed Forces. Two more APU 
combat vehicles - retreated.
 
 
 
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The SVO fighter, who was considered dead, 
woke up in the morgue, recovered 
and returned to the front
January 21st, 1:08pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
A soldier of the Russian Armed Forces with the call sign Katun,
who was considered dead, recovered in the morgue, then
recovered from his injuries and went back to the front. 
About how it was, he told in an interview with
 "Komsomolskaya Pravda".
 
In 2024, the house where the Russian fighter was staying was 
shelled. The blast wave knocked him out of the way and 
smashed through two walls. The victim was taken to
the evacuation zone, where he went into cardiac 
arrest. The doctors pronounced him dead and 
sent the body to the morgue.
 
Katun said that he woke up from the cold, and the last thing he 
remembered was the battle. ''When I woke up, I thought that I 
was in a sleeping place, I started to feel it, but it turned out 
to be far from a sleeping bag.''
 
"My second thought was that the guys wanted to make fun of 
me and packed me in a black bag," the military man recalls.
 
He got out of the bag and went through the corridors of the 
morgue, which greatly frightened the attendant, who 
turned pale - and fainted. Later it turned out that
the fighter was in a state of clinical death, 
and his survival is a real miracle.
 
As soon as Katun recovered --- he 
immediately returned to the front.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt..... to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 21st, 10:39am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue
 the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which 
broke into the territory of Kursk region.
 
During the offensive actions, the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire 
damage on formations of one tank brigade, one heavy mechanised 
brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, one 
marine brigade, and 3 territorial defence brigades of the AFU 
close to Gogolevka, Guyevo, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, 
Makhnovka, Nikolayevka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, 
Staraya Sorochina, and Sverdlikovo. One AFU 
counter-attack, was repelled.
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and artillery ---- engaged 
AFU manpower and hardware ----- near Viktorovka, Zaoleshenka, 
Kazachya Loknya, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, 
Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Mirny, Mikhaylovka, 
Novaya Sorochina, Oleshnya, Sudzha, Cherkasskoye 
Porechnoye, Yuzhny, as well as Basovka, Belovody, 
Vodolagi, Zhuravka, Miropolye, and Yunakovka in 
Sumy region.
 
During the day, the enemy has suffered losses of more than 270 
troops, an Abrams tank, a U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting 
vehicle, three armoured fighting vehicles, 9 motor vehicles, 
3 artillery guns, 1 mortar & 2 electronic warfare stations.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses 
amounted to more than 53,600 troops, 309 tanks, 237 infantry 
fighting vehicles, 178 armoured personnel carriers, 1,590 
armoured fighting vehicles, 1,574 motor vehicles, 381 
artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of 
HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the US, 16 anti
-aircraft missile launchers, 8 transport-loading 
vehicles, 96 EW stations, 14 counter-battery 
warfare radars, four air defence radars, 31 
units of engineering and other materiel,
 including 13 counterobstacle vehicles,
 one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, nine 
armoured recovery vehicles, & one 
command post vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise the AFU units 
is in progress.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation
January 21st, 9:17am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
continue the special military operation.
 
In Kharkov direction, the Sever Group of Forces hit formations 
of a motorised infantry brigade of the AFU close to Volchansk 
(Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 60 troops, one tank, one 
armoured fighting vehicle, two motor vehicles, and four 
field artillery guns.
 
The Zapad Group's units captured more advantageous lines and 
positions, inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two 
mechanised brigades and one infantry brigade of the AFU 
close to Novoyegorovka (Lugansk People's Republic), 
Drobyshevo, Kolodezi, Seversk, Yampol (Donetsk 
People's Republic), Dvurechnaya, Glushkovka, 
Zeleny Gai, and Lozovaya (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to more than 510 troops, seven armoured 
fighting vehicles, including a U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel 
carrier. 17 motor vehicles, ten field artillery guns, including five 
Western-made guns, and two field ammunition depots of the 
enemy - were eliminated.
 
The Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and 
engaged the units of two mechanised brigades, a motorised 
infantry brigade......  and one assault brigade of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine -- close to Konstantinovka, Druzhkovka, 
Izhevka, Predtechino, Belogorovka, Verkhnekamenskoye,
 Ivano-Daryevka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Yantarnoye, and 
Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The enemy sustained losses of up to 290 troops, two motor 
vehicles, seven field artillery guns, with four of them made 
by NATO countries. One ammunition depot and one 
electronic warfare station, were destroyed.
 
The Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing to the 
depths of the enemy's defence and liberated Volkovo
 (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of four 
mechanised brigades.. one motorised infantry brigade of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine... a National Guard brigade, 
two territorial defence brigades close to Shcherbinovka, 
Petrovka, Dzerzhinsk, Lysovka, Baranovka, Slavyanka, 
Novoyelizavetovka, Solenoye, Novoaleksandrovka, &
 Novovasilevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 580 troops, seven armoured 
fighting vehicles, including one French-made VAB armoured 
personnel carrier, six motor vehicles, and 9 artillery guns.
 
The Vostok Group of Forces --- advanced into the depths of the 
enemy's defence, defeated units of two mechanised brigades 
of the AFU, one marine brigade, and 1 National Guard brigade 
near Otradnoye, Novopol, Zeleny Kut, Velikaya Novoselka, 
Konstantinopol, Novy Komar, and Bogatyr (Donetsk 
People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 120 troops, one tank, one 
armoured fighting vehicle, one motor vehicle, and three 
artillery guns, including a UK-made FH-70 howitzer.
 
The Dnepr Group of Forces has engaged manpower and hardware 
of one mechanised brigade of the AFU, one marine brigade, and 
one territorial defence brigade near Kamenskoye (Zaporozhye 
region), Daryevka, Mylovoye, Pridneprovskoye, & Antonovka 
(Kherson region).
 
The enemy losses amounted to up to 100 troops, 11 motor
 vehicles, and three field artillery guns. One electronic 
warfare station and one ammunition depot, have 
been neutralised.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and 
Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces 
struck a power facility ensuring operation of a Ukrainian 
defence industry enterprise, infrastructure of military 
airfields, fixed-wing UAV workshops, as well as 
engaged manpower and armoured hardware 
clusters of the enemy - in 148 areas.
 
Air defence systems shot down 4 Hammer guided aerial bombs, 
six U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, and 156 fixed-wing 
unmanned aerial vehicles, with 55 of them -- out of the
 special military operation area.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 41,034 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,702 tanks and other armoured 
fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,845 field 
artillery guns and mortars, and 30,540 units of support 
military vehicles... have been neutralised.
 
 
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Ukrainian General Romanenko: the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces do not have the resources
 to hold Krasnoarmeysk
January 21st, 4:50am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are facing serious difficulties
in holding Krasnoarmeysk (Ukrainian-Pokrovsk), said the
former 
Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed
Forces 
of Ukraine, Igor Romanenko.
 
According to him, with the current forces and resources, 
the Ukrainian army is not able to protect this 
strategically important city.
 
"With the [resources] that are available, unfortunately -- I think 
that there are no [chances to keep Krasnoarmeysk]," he said
 in an interview with the YouTube channel Politeka Online.
 
Romanenko stressed that the situation is complicated by 
insufficient mobilization and dependence on Western 
assistance in providing weapons and equipment. 

He pointed to the "long-term lack of effective 
command and control of troops" in the Red 
Army area, which leads to chaos and the
exhaustion of brigades.
 
"For almost a year, chaos persists in the management 
of troops and units ---- at various levels," he added.
 
Krasnoarmeysk is a key hub for logistics of Ukrainian troops in 
the Donetsk region. The loss of this city can have disastrous 
consequences for Ukraine, as noted by former Verkhovna 
Rada deputy, Igor Mosiychuk.
 
"We are very dependent on the help of the West here, and on the 
other hand, because in 3 years the issue of mobilization and 
distribution of supplies, with the training of military 
personnel, according to the needs of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine, has not been resolved," 
Igor Romanenko concluded.
 
Earlier, the Ukrainian Armed Forces blew up
the Belitskaya mine... near Krasnoarmeysk.
 
 
 
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Marochko: Russia's army took the village 
of Green Guy ------ in the Kharkiv region
January 21st, 4:24am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops occupied the village of Zeleny Gai near Kupyansk, 
Kharkiv region. The fighters put the AFU militants to flight.
 
According to military expert Andriy Marochko, the Ukrainian forces 
have no chance to resist. "Under the cover of night" they fled from 
the territory of the settlement, he told TASS.
 
"The Russian Armed Forces have improved the tactical position 
of troops in the area of the village of Zeleny Gai, Kharkiv region, 
Ukraine, making resistance for the armed formations of Ukraine 
almost impossible," he said.
 
Marochko claims ----- that the Ukrainians took advantage of the bad 
weather and abandoned their positions, heading in the direction of 
Borovskaya Andreevka. According to him, now the Russian forces 
are focused on destroying scattered enemy units.
 
Earlier on January 18th, the coordinator of the Nikolaev 
underground Sergey Lebedev reported on the defeat 
of the AFU mercenary camp by Russian forces.
 
 
 
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Junior Sergeant Arsunkaev contributed
to the destruction of the Bradley BMP
 in the SVO zone
January 20th, 9:30pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Junior Sergeant Abubakar Arsunkayev adjusted artillery fire and 
contributed to the destruction of the US-made Bradley infantry 
fighting vehicle (BMP). The Ministry of Defense of the Russian 
Federation, reported on the exploits of Russian army soldiers 
in performing combat tasks in the zone of a special military 
operation (SVO).
 
The Armed Forces of Ukraine in one of the tactical directions, 
were going to go on the offensive and pulled together military 
equipment and assault infantry groups in one place. At that 
time, Arsunkaev was serving at the fire correction post, 
observing the movements of enemy equipment.. and 
determining its coordinates, after which he passed
 instructions to the gunners. 
 
Thanks to the accurate measurements of the junior sergeant, 
Russian servicemen successfully eliminated the Bradley 
infantry fighting vehicle and a significant number of 
AFU personnel. This thwarted the plans of the 
Ukrainian command and forced the enemy
 to retreat.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted ---- the courage and 
professionalism of Private Daniil Lobanov's guards. The unit 
in which he operated --- defended one of the settlements in 
the SVO zone from attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. 
The enemy once again hit the defended area with mortars.
 Despite the difficult weather conditions, Lobanov, using 
a reconnaissance drone, managed to detect the 
camouflaged position of the enemy mortar 
gun, along with the calculation.
 
The Guard private identified the coordinates of the detected target 
and passed them on to the commander of his unit. The enemy was 
hit by a mortar attack. Part of the AFU personnel managed to hide
 in the ravine, which did not go unnoticed by Lobanov, who 
continued to observe. He gave the new coordinates to 
the Russian mortars, and the remnants of the 
enemy's armed formation were destroyed 
by a second strike.
 
Earlier on January 20, the Russian Defense Ministry said that senior 
ensign Hamid Dzharullayev was carrying out the task of delivering 
ammunition to soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Russian
Federation - when his car was subjected to massive 
mortar fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine
and 
an attack by an FPV drone.
 
 Dzharullayev managed to divert the car from the flight path of the 
kamikaze drone and brought the vehicle out of the area of enemy 
mortars, delivering ammunition to the front line in a timely manner.
 
Earlier, on January the 19th, the Ministry noted the merits of Junior 
Sergeant Ilya Lukashov, who - at an observation post in one of the 
defense areas detected the movement of a sabotage group of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Russian positions. 
 
Having equipped a place for shooting, competently using the 
terrain conditions for shelter, waiting for the enemy to be 
ambushed, he began to shoot at it. The enemy group 
suffered heavy losses in a few minutes, and the 
survivors fled, leaving the wounded behind. 
 
The Defense Ministry also noted the actions of Lance Corporal 
Nikolai Dvornikov, who discovered two Ukrainian drones while
advancing --- as part of the head patrol. Drones conducted 
reconnaissance on the path of the likely Russian convoy.
 
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which Russian 
President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24th, 2022, 
continues. The decision was made against the background 
of the worsening situation in the region.
 
 
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Rogov responded to a statement 
by General Syrsky about "Hazel"
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the 
Operational Information Dept)
January 20th, 9:21pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Ukraine has recognized the uniqueness of the Russian 
Oreshnik ballistic missile. This was stated by the 
chairman of the Commission on sovereignty, 
patriotic projects and support for veterans 
of the Public Chamber of the Russian 
Federation, Vladimir Rogov --- in a 
conversation with RIA Novosti.
 
Thus, he commented on the words of the Commander-in-Chief of
 the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Alexander Syrsky about the 
country's lack of means to intercept the "Hazel Tree". 
 
According to the interlocutor of the agency, the commander-in-
chief understands that it is useless to continue "lying and 
making a careless appearance". 
 
"We see that, from the stage of denial came 
the stage of the recognition of "Hazel"," 
— concluded Rogov.
 
Earlier, Syrsky admitted that Ukraine has nothing to shoot down
 the Oreshnik . He noted that this situation encourages the 
country to create its own air defense system, which 
would also be an anti-missile system.
 
 
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In Kharkiv region ------- they told about the
daily shelling by Ukrainian Armed Forces
by Gleb Palekhov (Editor of 
the BSSR department)
January 20th, 5:33pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Against the background... of the successful offensive of
Russian troops, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are firing
daily, at the rear territories of the Kharkiv region,
where civilians are located. 

This was stated in an interview with TASS by the head of 
the military-civil administration (CAA) of the region,
 Vitaly Ganchev.
 
"The liberated territory of the Kharkiv region is shelled 
almost daily by Ukrainian forces," the official said.
 
He added that such attacks by Ukrainian troops
demonstrate their helplessness.. in facing the 
Russian offensive.
 
Earlier, Ganchev declared the superiority of the Russian Armed 
Forces over the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkiv region. 
According to him, Russian troops are moving particularly 
effectively in the Kupyansk direction.
 
 
 
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Putin: the purpose and meaning of SVO
 is to fight for the interests of Russia 
and its people
January 20th, 3:08pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the purpose and 
meaning of the special operation - the struggle for the 
interests of our country and people. This was stated
by the head of state .....during a meeting with 
permanent members of the Security Council, 
broadcast by the TV channel "Russia 24".
 
"Of course --- we will fight for the interests of Russia, for the 
interests of the Russian people," Putin said. The President 
pointed out that this is the meaning of conducting a 
special military operation.
 
Vladimir Putin also said that the goal of resolving the Ukrainian 
conflict .....should be a long-term peace, and not a short truce.
 
Earlier, presidential press Secretary, Dmitry Peskov, noted 
that the whole country is waiting for success at the front.
 
According to the representative of the Kremlin, this 
is a very important factor, inspiring fellow citizens.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt.... to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 20th, 11am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue
 the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which
 broke into the territory of Kursk region.
 
During the offensive actions, the Sever Group of Forces' units 
inflicted fire damage on formations of one tank brigade, one
 heavy mechanised brigade, four mechanised brigades, two
 air assault brigades, one marine brigade, and 3 territorial 
defence brigades of the AFU near Guyevo, Zaoleshenka, 
Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, 
Nikolayevka, Nikolayevo Daryino, Nikolsky, 
Novaya Sorochina, Sverdlikovo, and 
Yuzhny. 4 enemy counter-attacks
 were repelled.
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery inflicted 
losses on manpower & hardware of the AFU near Agronom, 
Viktorovka, Goncharovka, Kazachya Loknya, Pervy 
Knyazhy, Kubatkin, Lebedevka, Loknya, 
Martynovka, Makhnovka, Mirny, 
Nikolayevka, Nikolsky, Sudzha, 
Cherkasskoye Porechnoye as 
well as Belovody, Vodolagi, 
Veselovka, Zhuravka, and 
Khrapovshchina in 
Sumy region.
 
During the day, AFU losses amounted to more than 460 troops, four 
tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, one armoured personnel 
carrier, nine armoured fighting vehicles, 57 motor vehicles, 
five artillery guns, one mortar, one electronic warfare 
station, one armoured recovery vehicle, four UAV 
command posts, and one ammunition depot.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses 
amounted to more than 53,330 troops, 308 tanks, 236 infantry 
fighting vehicles, 175 armoured personnel carriers, 1,581 
armoured fighting vehicles, 1,565 motor vehicles, 378 
artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of 
HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the US, 16 anti
-aircraft missile launchers, 8 transport-loading 
vehicles, 94 EW stations, 14 counter-battery 
warfare radars, four air defence radars, 31 
units of engineering and other materiel, 
including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, 
one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, nine 
armoured recovery vehicles, and 
one command post vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise the AFU units,
 is in progress.
 
 
____________________________________________
 
 
 
Russian troops free
Shevchenko in DPR
January 20th, 9:11am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian servicemen of the Center Group of Forces,
have liberated the village of Shevchenko in the
Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). This was
reported in the Ministry of Defense of
the Russian Federation.

Shevchenko village... lies west of Kurakhov.
 
"Units of the Center group of troops ---- continued to advance into 
the depth of the enemy's defense ---- and liberated the village of 
Shevchenko in the Donetsk People's Republic," the report says.
 
In addition, the Center destroyed two US-made M113 armoured 
personnel carriers, three vehicles, a Gvozdika self-propelled 
artillery system, and up to 545 enemy personnel.
 
 
Earlier on January 19th, the "Central" group 
liberated Vozdvizhenka village, in the DPR.
 
 
_____________________________________
 
 
 
Russian Defense Ministry: Russian army 
has liberated Novoegorovka in the LPR
January 20th, 9:06am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian armed Forces liberated the villages of Novoegorovka 
in the LPR and Shevchenko in the DPR, the Russian Defense 
Ministry said.
 
The village of Novoegorovka in the Luhansk People's Republic 
came under the control of the Russian army due to the active 
actions of the fighters of the group of troops "West".
 
"As a result of active military operations, units of the Zapad group 
of troops liberated the village of Novoegorovka in the Luhansk 
People's Republic," the military department said in
 a statement.
 
In addition, Zapad fighters destroyed about 400 Ukrainian army 
fighters, a Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, an M113 armoured 
personnel carrier, three armoured combat vehicles, seven 
vehicles and five field artillery pieces. An enemy 
ammunition depot destroyed.
 
Also, the Russian Defense Ministry on Monday informed about 
the liberation of the village of Shevchenko in the DPR to the 
west of Kurakhov, by forces of the Center group of troops.
 
On January 4th, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the 
liberation of another locality in the LPR, the village of Nadia. 
According to RIA Novosti estimates, in 2024, the Russian 
Armed Forces liberated 214 settlements in the special 
operation zone.
 
 
 
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Rogov: the Russian army knocked out 
the APU from Kotlin in the DPR
January 20th, 8:51am
(al Manar)
 
The Russian armed forces have driven out Kiev regime fighters 
from the village of Kotlino, which is located southwest of the 
city of Krasnoarmeysk in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Now the clearing of the settlement is coming to an end, 
Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the commission of the 
Public Chamber of Russia on sovereignty issues, 
co-chairman of the Coordination Council for the 
integration of new regions, told RIA Novosti.
 
"Our troops have driven the enemy out of Kotlino, the mopping 
up of its northern part is coming to an end," Rogov explained.
 
A road and railway line runs through the village of Kotlino, 
which connects Krasnoarmeysk in the DPR, with the 
Dnipropetrovsk region in Ukraine.
 
The day before, it became known that the Russian army 
liberated the village of Vozdvizhenka in the DPR. 
 
 
 
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Russian sapper - told about
"meowing" cabinets -- 
and
nightstands mined by the
Ukrainian 
Armed Forces
January 20th, 2:50am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began mining cabinets 
and nightstands with explosive devices with speakers ---- to 
attract people with the sounds of a cat meowing. This was 
warned by the commander of a platoon of sappers, 
Leonid Otdelnov, reports TASS.
 
The Russian military explained that such sounds 
most often attract attention, because they 
immediately cause a desire to help.
 
"We go in, we hear meowing, for example, in the closet --- and you 
can understand that when you open the closet compassionately, 
there will be an explosion," he said in a video distributed by the 
Russian Ministry of Defense.
 
The ministry also touched upon the topic of demining 
the liberated village of Selidovo, as well as roads 
and infrastructure, TASS reports.
 
"During combat operations, sappers have to neutralize various 
types of mines installed, as well as unexploded elements of 
cluster munitions and foreign-made mines," the Russian 
Defense Ministry said.
 
It is reported that - when finding unexploded ordnance, Russian 
sappers do everything possible to remove and neutralize them. 
But... if this cannot be done, then they destroy the dangerous 
object right on the spot, using the overhead charge method.
 
Earlier it was reported that in the Kursk region, AFU militants 
disguise cluster munitions as backpacks, cigarette packs 
and even interior items. According to the deputy 
commander of the engineering and sapper 
company from the North group of the 
Russian Armed Forces with the call 
sign Hydrach, Russian sappers 
successfully "split" all these 
tricks of the enemy - and 
clean up the liberated
 territories.
 
 
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APU booby-trapped escape routes 
from Kurakhov for its fighters
January 20th, 2:20am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine mined the escape routes 
from Kurakhov for their own soldiers. This was stated by the 
captured Ukrainian serviceman Maxim Koreiko in an 
interview with RIA Novosti.
 
He noted that when the Ukrainian Armed Forces had
already withdrawn the drone crew operators and
infantry with US
Javelin anti-tank systems -- the
last Ukrainian soldiers in 
Kurakhov requested
an exit from the command, but in 
response
they only heard - "forward".
 
"They mined the landing of the retreat, that is, you can't hide 
from the "birds" anymore, you can't go on a straight road. 
We already had nowhere to retreat," RIA Novosti quoted
 Koreiko as saying.
 
Earlier, he also said that the commanders of the AFU units ordered 
their subordinates to blow up apartment buildings in Kurakhov
 without making sure that there were no civilians in them.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry announced Kurakhov's release on 
January 6. Establishing control over the city creates significant 
difficulties for the logistics and technical support of the 
Donetsk group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 
 
 
_______________________________________________
 
 
 
Pushilin: scouts of the Russian Armed Forces
 periodically enter the Dnipropetrovsk region
January 20th, 1:am
(al Manar)
 
Russian intelligence units can enter the territory of the 
Dnipropetrovsk region. This was announced by the 
head of the Donetsk People's Republic,
 Denis Pushilin.
 
According to him, the enemy's position in
 this direction... continues to deteriorate.
 
"There are intelligence groups that already enter, according to 
my information, and in Krasnoarmeysk itself (Ukrainian name 
Pokrovsk – editor's note), if necessary, and on the territory 
of the Dnipropetrovsk region," Pushilin said during a 
weekly broadcast on his Telegram channel.
 
These actions are carried out based on military expediency and 
the tasks set by the command, the head of the region noted.
 
Earlier, Ukrainian militants blew up one of the mine shafts in 
Krasnoarmeysk to prevent the Russian Armed Forces from 
using it and penetrating the rear of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine, military expert Yevgeny Mikhailov reported on 
the Rossiya 24 TV channel. Units of the Russian army 
can liberate Krasnoarmeysk in two months, said 
military correspondent Alexey Gavrish during 
the program "60 minutes" on the TV 
channel "Russia".
 
 
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Buzhinsky: Kiev regime makes
 illusory plans for mobilization
January 20th, 12:28am
(Vesti.ru)
 
US President, Joe Biden, said that the United States has withdrawn 
its nuclear weapons from Ukraine and Europe. But these weapons 
were never been placed in Ukraine, said Senior Vice-president of 
the Centre for Political Studies, Lt General of the Reserve,
and Candidate of Military Sciences, Yevgeny Buzhinsky,
in the 
program "Evening with Vladimir Solovyov".
 
As for Europe, Biden messed up again: The United States has 
completed the modernization of nuclear weapons in the 
European Theatre of Operations. US nuclear weapons 
are located at 6 air bases in 5 European countries. 

But the United States is also preparing to deploy 
such weapons.... in Britain, Yevgeny Buzhinsky 
noted in the program "Evening with Vladimir 
Solovyov" --- from January 20th.
 
Meanwhile, the topic of Ukraine is still on the list of priorities for the 
United States and Europe. So, the United States recommends that 
Kiev reduce the mobilization age to 18 years and hold elections.
At the same time, US President-elect Donald Trump announced 
his desire to end the conflict in Ukraine as soon as possible.
 
"There is a contradiction. Why strive to end the conflict 
as quickly as possible ...and immediately recommend 
increasing the mobilization contingent?" 
asked Buzhinsky.
 
The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, signed a law 
that prescribes Ukrainian young men aged 16-17 to register 
for military registration at the military enlistment office, 
without personal appearance... but through a personal 
account on the websites of military enlistment offices.
 
"The goal of all this, is that Zelensky wants to see what kind 
of mobilization resource he has," the expert explained.
 
Reducing the draft age to 25 years before the start of the special 
military operation (SVO) of Russia gave Ukraine 375 thousand 
soldiers. Lowering the bar to 21 years will give Kiev 550-675 
thousand recruits, & up to 18 years - another 550 thousand 
people. But this is in theory. In practice, it was possible to 
recruit 1-2% of conscripts to the army.
 
"The second aspect ----- the number of deserters from the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine is growing. In 2024, the Prosecutor's Office of 
Ukraine initiated 89,500 cases. But this figure doesn't take 
much into account. In particular, in November 2024, 
7,000 servicemen ---- deserted from the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine, in December – 17,000," 
Buzhinsky said.
 
Thus, all this makes Kiev's plans for mobilization....... illusory. In 
addition, the training of Ukrainian servicemen in Europe leaves 
much to be desired. According to statistics, a soldier of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine trained in two months in the 
West dies at the front on the 30th day after arrival, 
and a soldier trained in two weeks in Ukraine - 
on the 14th day, the expert explained.
 
That is, statistics show that the mobilization in Ukraine 
is not going as the Kiev authorities would like, 
Buzhinsky concluded.
 
 
 
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Sfera complex to protect cities from 
UAVs -- must pass temperature test
January 20th, 12:02am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Sphere complex -- developed by the Polet Chelyabinsk Radio 
Plant (part of Rostec's AIS holding) to protect cities from drones, 
is to be tested in extreme climatic conditions. This was stated 
by the head of the technological group of assembly and 
assembly production, Yulia Yesareva.
 
The system detects different types of UAVs .......at a distance of one 
kilometre. The product is also capable of jamming drones hundreds 
of metres away. "Polet" - has already checked the accuracy of the 
declared parameters on captured copies of unmanned vehicles 
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Sphere complex is tested 
under conditions of maximum loads.
 
"Climate tests in a special chamber should take place in the 
temperature range from -50 to +65 degrees," Yesareva said.
 
Verification is carried out -- to identify shortcomings and
eliminate them. "Sphere" ------- should be able to protect
dugouts as well as combat vehicles. The latter suffers
the most from enemy drones.
 
 
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 In Ukraine, the Ukrainian Armed Forces 
announced the destruction of their
 own fighters near Kurakhovo
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the 
Operational Information Dept)
January 18th, 11:02pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are sacrificing their troops in the 
Kurakhovo area of the DPR, Ukrainian journalist and military 
analyst Yuriy Butusov has said - as reported by RIA Novosti.
 
"We have been training our combat-ready troops in an 
unnecessary salient near Kurakhovo for several
 weeks in a row," he said. According to him, 
since the Russian military has completely 
taken control of the city, the destruction 
of Ukrainian troops in this area no
 longer makes any sense. 
 
"The withdrawal from these ledges is simply critical, 
as quickly as possible!" — said the journalist.
 
Earlier.... Butusov said that the Russian military liberates 
settlements without resistance from the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine. Butusov explained this - by the lack of 
defensive lines on the flanks of the Ukrainian 
side and the new tactics of the Russian 
forces ---- which are successfully 
moving around without getting
 involved in street battles.
 
 
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The Russian Defense Ministry reported 
on the exploits of the Russian military
 in the special operation zone
January 18th, 9pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The ministry -- drew attention to the merits of Junior Sergeant Ilya 
Lukashov, who was on combat duty at an observation post in one 
of the defense areas. During the observation, Lukashov detected 
the movement of a sabotage group of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine (AFU) in the direction of Russian positions. 
He reported this to the command ----- and decided 
to set up an ambush on the path of the militants.
 
After that, the junior sergeant equipped a place for shooting, 
correctly using the terrain conditions for shelter, and when 
the enemy was in the firing sector, he began to shoot at it.
 
 The enemy group suffered heavy losses in a few minutes, and
 the survivors fled, leaving the wounded behind. As a result, 
the Ukrainian Armed Forces were prevented from entering 
the area of defense of the Russian troops - and possible 
losses of personnel, were prevented.
 
The Defense Ministry also noted the actions of Lance Corporal 
Nikolai Dvornikov, who discovered 2 Ukrainian drones while
advancing as part of the head patrol. Drones conducted 
recon., on the path of the likely Russian convoy.
 
After detecting them, Dvornikov, taking a hidden position, 
estimated the distance to the targets and shot down 
both drones with well-aimed shots. Thanks to the 
actions of the corporal, it was possible to 
prevent the enemy from detecting 
Russian troops. 
 
The column of Russian Armed Forces arrived in the 
specified area - in a timely manner - without losses.
 
 
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RIA Novosti: Russian Army soldier
 in Kurakhovo ----- persuaded 13 
soldiers of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine to surrender
January 18th, 8:58pm
(RT.ru)
 
The commander of the assault company of the Borz assault 
detachment of the Russian Army told how a soldier with 
the call sign Bosyak persuaded 13 soldiers of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine to surrender in 
Kurakhovo (DPR).
 
This is reported by RIA Novosti.
 
The tramp turned out to be alone in the location of Ukrainian 
soldiers. He went up to the second floor and persuaded the 
opponents to surrender.
 
Previously, the Russian military captured a soldier of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine, who mixed up positions and 
went to the Russian Armed Forces. He talked to the 
prisoner and sent him to his colleagues. After that, 
he entered the Ukrainian positions himself.
 
"There were 13 armed enemy soldiers standing around him.
He, alone, explained to them that they had no way out," 
the commander said.
 
Earlier.. units of the Guards paratrooper Don Cossack regiment 
of the Airborne Forces from Feodosia captured part of the
AFU fighters, during the liberation of the settlements of
Leonidovo
 and Alexandria in the Kursk region.
 
 
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The bodies of civilians were found in
 the basements of the Kursk village
 liberated from the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine
January 18th, 8:38pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The bodies of civilians were found in basements 
in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye, Kursk 
region, liberated by Russian servicemen. 
This became known on January 18.
 
Footage from the village..... was published in the 
Telegram channel of the group of troops "North".
 
As the Russian Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-Large for crimes 
committed by the Kiev regime, Rodion Miroshnik, pointed out, 
among the victims are old people and women. He said that 
while leaving the village, Ukrainian militants threw 
grenades at them.
 
Miroshnik also noted that Western countries "falsely turn their 
eyes away" from the crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
(AFU) and block attempts at international investigations.
 
According to TASS, the remains of seven civilians were found in 
the village. In the first basement, the bodies of two people were 
found, one of them had bruises on his legs. Five dead civilians 
were found in the second basement.
 
Earlier, on January 17th, it was reported that the Investigative 
Committee (IC) of Russia completed the investigation of more 
than 50 criminal cases against the military of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine who committed crimes in the Kursk
 region. It was noted that the defendants will soon 
appear in court.
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Russian positions in 
the border areas of the Kursk region on August 6, 2024. 

The elimination of Ukrainian militants who invaded 
Russian territory, continues.
 
 
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The ''US'' has completed deployment 
of B61 12 nuclear bombs in Europe
by Maria Mamaeva
January 18th, 8pm
(Komsomolskaya Pravda)
 
The United States announced the full deployment of nuclear 
weapons to ''strengthen the capabilities of NATO countries''.
 
The United States has completed the full deployment of new B61 
12 gravity nuclear bombs in Europe. This was stated by the
 head of the US National Nuclear Security Agency 
(NNSA) Jill Hruby.
 
"The new B61-12 gravity bombs are fully deployed, and 
we have increased the ability of NATO to see its 
nuclear capabilities," she said, during a 
speech at the Hudson Institute.
 
At the same time, Hrubi did not specify on the territory of which 
countries there are bases where new US nuclear bombs were 
placed. The head of the NNSA also stressed that the
US&UK continue their strategic partnership in this

area, maintaining 
their ''commitment to
nuclear deterrence''.
 
Previously KP.RU reported that Russia has approved a new 
nuclear doctrine. According to Russian Presidential press 
Secretary Dmitry Peskov, this initiative was a signal for
 the West - in the current political situation.
 
[Rhondda Records adds:
''US'' in the UK in the 1950s, 
meant ''useless'' so don't
worry - they probably
won't go ''boom!''.
Seriously ---- they
are f***ing nuts!]


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 Pushilin spoke about the underground 
towns built - in the city of Kurakhovo
January 18th, 4:04pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin 
said that there are "underground towns" built in the liberated 
Kurakhovo by the armed formations of Ukraine (VFU) during 
the occupation. He announced this on January 18 in his 
Telegram channel.
 
Pushilin recalled that the settlement was liberated from 
several sides by a number of units during the month -
 from November 25 to December 25.
 
"The fortifications of the VFU were made quite serious there, 
a lot of trenches were dug and shelters were arranged 
under the residential sector and on the approaches 
to the settlement — entire underground towns," 
he wrote.
 
The head of the DPR also awarded the soldiers of the 5th Guards 
Brigade named after Alexander Zakharchenko, who have been 
serving in the region since 2014.
 
"You acted with verified operations, which were planned very 
competently by the commanders. It is advisable to retain 
personnel as much as possible. In offensive operations,
 the enemy was pushed back. Thank you very much - 
from all the residents of the Donetsk People's
Republic," 
he addressed the military.
 
Earlier in the day, Pushilin compared the destruction in 
Kurakhovo to Avdiivka. The head of the DPR also 
spoke about the increased danger in the city.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry --- announced the release of 
Kurakhovo by the Russian military on January 6th. The 
ministry said that this is the largest city in the south
-west of the Donbass. During the fighting to liberate 
the settlement, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 
more than 12,000 people and about 3,000 units 
of weapons and military equipment.
 
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which Russian 
President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, 
continues. The decision was made against the 
background of the worsening situation in
 the region.
 
 
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The fighter who held the defense alone
 apologized to his parents for the 
lack of communication
January 18th, 4:04pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Junior sergeant of the Russian Armed Forces Magomed Abdulaev, 
who spent 21 days holding the defense alone in a dugout in the 
special operation zone, apologized to his parents for not 
being in touch for almost a month.
 
The VGTRK film crew arrived in Dagestan, where they talked with 
the military family and the head of the Buinaksky district of the 
republic. During the journalists ' visit, Abdulayev made a 
video call.
 
"First of all, I wanted to apologize for making you worry, 
I was out of touch for a month. You know, combat 
tasks," the fighter said.
 
Recall that Abdulaev defended the dugout with 
a colleague for 8 days, and later, alone, for
another 21 days. 
 
Abdulaev's son believes that his father 
has accomplished a feat.
 
"Of course, I am proud of him that he accomplished such a feat, 
that he did this, showed his courage, pulled out his companion.
 I was glad, of course, when he got in touch," said the child.
 
The military daughter is also proud of her father
 and hopes that he will return home soon.
 
His mother, said in an interview with Rossiya TV channel 
that she had never seen her son in a depressed state.
 
Patimat Abdulayeva said that she is very proud of 
her son. She added that Magomed always gives 
her confidence that everything will be fine 
with him.
 
"He is always positive. I ask him: "What's wrong with your legs?" 
He says: "A little frostbite, but nothing.." and jokes all the time. 
I've never seen him depressed. This - has never happened 
before. He supports me with his confidence, I feel calm," 
she shared.
 
His father, Abdurakhman Abdulayev, said that his son went to 
the front from the first day of the special military operation. 
According to him, the military man never doubted his 
decision, for a minute.
 
"There was no communication with him. Well, I was worried 
as a father, sometimes you drive, you cry, your soul hurts. 
Any father will understand this. But now.. it's hard to 
remember, too, because - you can't sleep at night.
You can't sleep at night, you walk until morning, 
you fall asleep in the morning. It was a hard 
month, it was a very hard month, but ---- it 
was possible to withstand it," he shared.
 
 
 
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tass: A Danish pilot-instructor of the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces was killed in a missile strike 
in Kryvyi Rih
January 18th, 1:13pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Danish pilot-instructor Jepp Hansen, who trained Ukrainian 
militants, was eliminated during a missile strike on the 
AFU training centre in Kryvyi Rih. This was reported 
by the TASS news agency, citing a source in the 
law enforcement agencies.
 
Details and the exact time of the impact, 
the agency's interlocutor did not say.
 
"Hansen was destroyed during a missile strike on
 the Ukrainian Armed Forces' training centre in 
Kryvyi Rih," he said.
 
Earlier, the coordinator of the pro-Russian Nikolaev resistance 
Sergey Lebedev -- announced the destruction of up to three 
dozen Romanian mercenaries in the city of Kilia, Odessa 
region. He specified, that the mercenaries were 
overtaken on the road from Romania.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt... to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 18th, 12:55pm
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue 
the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which 
broke into the territory of Kursk region.
 
The Sever Group of Forces engaged formations of one tank 
brigade, a heavy mechanised brigade, four mechanised 
brigades, two air assault brigades, a marine brigade, 
and three territorial defence brigades of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine --- close to Guyevo, Lebedevka, 
Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, 
Novaya Sorochina, Pogrebki, Sverdlikovo, 
Sudzha, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. 
One AFU counter-attack was repelled.
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery strikes 
engaged AFU manpower and hardware -- near Viktorovka, 
Zaoleshenka, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Kubatkin, Kurilovka, 
Loknya, Martynovka, Melovoy, Nikolsky as well 
as Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Vodolagi, 
Zhuravka, and Miropolye in Sumy region.  
 
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to over 210 
troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, nine motor vehicles, 
an artillery gun, two mortars, an ammunition depot, and a 
UAV command post.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses 
amounted to more than 52,660 troops, 304 tanks, 231 infantry 
fighting vehicles, 174 armoured personnel carriers, 1,567 
armoured fighting vehicles, 1,502 motor vehicles, 372 
artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of 
HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the US, 16 anti
-aircraft missile launchers, 8 transport-loading 
vehicles, 93 EW stations, 14 counter-battery 
warfare radars, four air defence radars, 30 
units of engineering and other materiel, 
including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, 
one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, 
8 armoured recovery vehicles, 
and a command post vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise the AFU units
 ...is in progress.
 
 
 
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TASS: about 300 metres are left 
before the complete blocking of 
the APU in Velikaya Novoselka
January 18th, 10:24am
(Vesti.ru)
 
About 300 metres remain until the absolute blocking of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine in Velikaya Novoselka village to the south of 
the Donetsk People's Republic, the security forces told the 
TASS news agency.
 
In late December, Igor Kimakovsky - an adviser to the head of the 
DPR, told Rossiya 24 TV channel that the Russian Armed Forces 
are gradually squeezing out enemy units from their positions in 
Velikaya Novoselka. After that, the Russian army cut off the
 main route of ammunition supplies to the settlement for 
Ukrainian troops.
 
Earlier, the law enforcement agencies reported - that most of the 
positions in the village of Vremevka in the south of the Republic 
were cleared from the Ukrainian army. The security forces 
clarified that the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
in this area included a large group, which included 
elite units.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation 
January 18th, 9:30am
 
This morning, in response to the fire of U.S.-made ATACMS 
operational-tactical missiles on civilian infrastructure in 
Belgorod region, the Russian Armed Forces carried out 
a group high-precision strike against the Ukrainian 
defence industry facilities, including the Luch 
design bureau, which is designing and 
manufacturing Neptune long-range 
guided missiles, and Olkha MLRS 
rockets. All objectives achieved, 
targets engaged. 
 
In Kharkov direction, the Sever Group of Forces hit formations 
of a motorised infantry brigade and a national guard brigade
 close to Volchansk and Glubokoye (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU lost up to 30 men, two motor 
vehicles, and three field artillery guns.
 
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines 
and positions. Russian units hit manpower and hardware of two 
airmobile brigades and an air assault regiment of the AFU 
close to Lozovaya and Zagryzovo (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 470 troops, a tank, two 
armoured fighting vehicles, including a U.S.-made M113 
armoured personnel carrier, five motor vehicles, and 8
 field artillery guns, including two manufactured by 
NATO states. One ammunition depot 
was wiped out.
 
The Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical position. 
Russian troops hit formations of three mechanised 
brigades, an airmobile brigade --- and an assault 
brigade of the AFU nr Seversk, Novodmitrovka, 
Chasov Yar, Dachnoye, and Konstantinovka 
of the Donetsk People's Republic.
 
The AFU losses amounted to more then 245 troops 
and four motor vehicles.  One ammunition depot 
was wiped out.
 
As a result of their successful offensive, the Tsentr 
Group of Forces units liberated Petropavlovka 
(Donetsk People's Republic).
 
Russian forces engaged the manpower and materiel of seven 
mechanised brigades of the AFU near Petrovka, Dzerzhinsk, 
Solenoye, Petropavlovka, Peschanoye, Novovasilyevka, 
and Slavyanka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
 
The enemy lost up up to 585 troops, three armoured fighting 
vehicles, four motor vehicles, and four artillery guns.
 
The Vostok Group of Forces' units continued advancing 
to the depths of the enemy's defence and liberated 
Vremevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
Russian units hit a mechanised brigade and an air assault 
brigade near Konstantinopol and Velikaya Novoselka of 
the Donetsk People's Republic.
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 135 troops, two armoured 
fighting vehicles, 3 motor vehicles, and 5 foreign-made field 
artillery guns. One ammunition depot was wiped out.
 
The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces -- have engaged the 
manpower and hardware of the two marine brigades close 
to Antonovka and Kazatskoye (Kherson region).
 
The enemy lost up to 65 troops, eight motor vehicles, a field 
artillery gun, and a Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, Missile Troops 
& Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces - have engaged
the infrastructure of military airfields, the production and 
assembly plant of unmanned aerial vehicles as well as 
clusters of enemy manpower and hardware....
 in 156 areas.
 
Air defence units shot down 83 fixed-wing 
unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 40,726 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,658 tanks and other armoured 
fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,764 field 
artillery guns and mortars, and 30,459 units of support 
military vehicles - have been neutralised.
 
 
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Rogov: The Russian Armed Forces entered 
the village of Udachnoye on the border 
with the Dnipropetrovsk region
January 18th, 5:21am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian soldiers entered the village of Udachnoye in the 
Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), located near the 
border with the Dnipropetrovsk region. This was
 announced by the Chairman of the Public 
Chamber's Commission on sovereignty, 
co-chairman of the Coordination 
Council for the integration of 
new regions, Vladimir Rogov.
 
According to him -- our fighters started fighting for 
the liberation of the settlement in its eastern part.
 
"Our troops entered Udachnoye, located a few kilometres from 
the DPR border with the Dnipropetrovsk region. Now, they are 
fighting for the liberation of the settlement from Nazi 
occupation," he told RIA Novosti.
 
A road and railway line run through Udachnoye. They connect 
the city of Krasnoarmeysk in the north-west of the DPR with
 the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine.
 
Krasnoarmeysk, which Russian troops can liberate within a couple 
of months, according to military commander Alexey Gavrish, is 
connected by rail to Donetsk, Kramatorsk, and Slavyansk. 
Roads also lead to the Dnipropetrovsk region.
 
 
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Marochko: Kiev transferred Azov 
fighters - to near Novoegorovka
January 18th, 2:44am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine sent to 
Novoegorovka of the Luhansk People's Republic 
militants of the Azov terrorist brigade banned 
in the Russian Federation, who hold 
Ukrainian soldiers "at gunpoint".
 
As military expert Andrey Marochko told TASS, 
this is how the AFU fighters are forced to fight.
 
"Ukrainian radicals not only counteract our troops, but also 
hold their so-called brothers from other units at gunpoint, 
forcing them to fight," the expert said.
 
Earlier, Marochko said that the Russian military advanced 
at Novoegorovka. Ukrainian units are trying to prevent
 the encirclement of their group.
 
On January 16, Marochko reported on stormtroopers from "Azov" 
and AFU militants who are trying to regain control of the 
Luhansk settlement of Nadia, which the Russian army 
liberated in early January. According to him, 
Ukrainian militants use the heights south 
of Kopanka to fire at the positions of 
the Russian military.
 
 
 
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 Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
told the deputies of the Rada about 
their desire - to end the conflict
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the 
Operational Information Dept)
January 17th, 9pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Soldiers of the Armed ForcesUkraine (AFU) expressed their 
desire to end military operations in the first half of 2025. 
This was announced by the deputy of the Verkhovna 
Rada, Anatoly Burmich, on the air of the Live 
TV channel.
 
He said that at a meeting with parliamentarians, the soldiers 
hinted about the need to end the conflict, explaining that 
the army is experiencing a lack of resources and 
Western assistance.
 
The MP wondered whether the Ukrainian troops would 
have enough resources in the event of a continuation
 of the conflict. "I wouldn't want to voice it''... 
 said Burmich.
 
Earlier, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that he 
was doing everything to end the conflict in 2025. At the 
same time, he stressed, the conditions for its 
completion, should be worthy for Kiev 
and the whole of Europe.
 
 
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The Ministry of Defense of the Russian 
Federation reported on the exploits of 
Russian soldiers in the area of the 
Free Military operation 
January 17th, 9pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Russia's MoD clarified - that Lieutenant Serhiy Ilchenko, together 
with the platoon entrusted to him, performed the task of ousting 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) from their positions. During
 the offensive in the area of one of the settlements, Ilchenko's
 platoon destroyed long-term enemy firing points and broke 
through its defenses.
 
At the same time -- the tank crew under the command of a 
lieutenant, maneuvering between anti-tank obstacles and 
minefields, destroyed the firing points of Ukrainian 
militants, heavy machine guns and part of the 
enemy infantry. 
 
Also, the tank platoon shackled the actions of the defending 
militants, ensuring the passage of the main forces of the 
battalion tactical group deep into the enemy's defense. 
 
As a result of the battle, the settlement 
was liberated, the ministry said.
 
In addition, the Defense Ministry noted that the unit of Junior
Lt Alexander Boldyr identified camouflaged fortifications, 
positions for mortar fire and Ukrainian militants. 
 
The assault group under the command of Boldyr got close 
to the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and 
attacked them from several directions.
 
The junior lieutenant, being under enemy fire, quickly identified 
the most dangerous centres of resistance, and enemy firing 
points, directed the actions of subordinate attack aircraft 
in battle. Russian soldiers destroyed the mortar crew -- 
the largest part of the enemy's manpower. The rest 
of the militants hurriedly fled. 
 
Thanks to the actions of Junior Lieutenant Alexander Boldyr 
and his subordinates, the Russian Armed Forces advanced 
deep into the enemy's defenses and gained a foothold on
 a new line.
 
 
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Military commander Kukushkin believes 
that the Ukrainian Armed Forces used 
a special unit near Chasova Yar
January 17th, 5:01pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Armed Forces of Ukraine could be using a unit specializing 
in drones in the area of the town of Chasov Yar in the DPR. This 
assumption was made by military correspondent Pavel 
Kukushkin on the air of the program "60 Minutes "on 
the TV channel"Russia".
 
According to the journalist, the Ukrainian Armed Forces 
in the area of Chasova Yar are putting up strong
resistance mainly using UAVs.
 
"They have quite a lot of drones in this area. There is most 
likely a specialized unit present that specializes in UAVs. 
But nevertheless, our soldiers are moving forward, now 
they are cleaning the refractory plant," the military 
commander said.
 
As military correspondent Vladimir Razin noted earlier, 
the point of no return for the Ukrainian army in 
Chasovy Yar ....has been passed.
 
 
 
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Military commander Kukushkin said that
 the Russian Armed Forces are pressing 
the APU in the area of Russky Porechny
January 17th, 4:52pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian armed forces are putting serious pressure 
on Ukrainian militants near the village of Russkoye 
Porechnoye in the Kursk border region. This was 
reported by military correspondent Pavel 
Kukushkin on the air of the program 
"60 Minutes "on the TV channel
"Russia".
 
Kukushkin noted that heavy and heavy fighting is taking place in 
the areas of the Kursk border area occupied by the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces. According to the military commander, 
Ukrainian troops are constantly moving 
reinforcements there.. to hold their 
positions until the inauguration 
of US President-elect 
Donald Trump.
 
"Nevertheless, our fighters.. are slowly reducing the occupied 
territory. South-west of Sudzha, our fighters are now clearing 
Makhnovka, a settlement adjacent to Sudzha from the 
south-west. There are fights in Zamosye – this is 
already a suburb of Sudzha. At the same time, 
our fighters are also pressing down from the 
north in the area of Russky Porechny. So -
the bridgehead is shrinking, and getting
smaller and smaller," he said.
 
 

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The Russian military --- hit the training centre
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kryvyi Rih
January 17th, 12:58pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops attacked a Ukrainian facility in Kryvyi 
Rih. This is reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
 
According to the newspaper, the blow fell on the premises 
of a closed educational institution, which the Ukrainian 
military used as a barracks.
 
According to the newspaper, after the operation of the 
Iskander missile system, the upper part of the four-
story building was completely demolished in 
some places. In addition, a wide crack 
was formed in the facade.
 
On January 11th, it was reported that the Russian army 
struck in the direction of the Kryvyi Rih "95th quarter" 
microdistrict. Previously, the head of the Kiev 
regime, Vladimir Zelensky, lived there.
 
So, at least two strikes were inflicted on the area.
 
 

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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation 
(11-17 January)
January 17th, 12:10pm
 
From 11 to 17 January 2025, the Armed Forces of the Russian 
Federation carried out eight group strikes by high-precision
weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, which hit
 Ukraine's crucial gas and energy infrastructure facilities 
that support the work of the Ukrainian defence industry. 
The strikes also engaged armament depots, a fuel base,
 and infrastructure of military airfields.
 
Moreover, the group strikes hit assembly facilities and storage 
areas for strike UAVs and uncrewed surface vehicles, as well
 as temporary deployment areas for Ukrainian armed 
formations and foreign mercenaries.
 
The Sever Group of Forces continued fighting against the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of Kursk region.
 
As a result of the active offensive operations, the settlements 
of Aleksandriya, Leonidovo, Russkoye Porechnoye, and 
Kruglenkoye ---- have been liberated.
 
In addition, aviation and drone strikes and artillery fire 
hit manpower and hardware of one tank brigade, four 
mechanised brigades, three air assault brigades, 
one marine brigade, and two territorial 
defence brigades.
 
In Kharkov direction, Russian troops inflicted losses on 
units of one mechanised brigade, one motorised
 infantry brigade of the AFU, and two territorial 
defence brigades over the past week.
 
In the area of responsibility of the Sever Group of Forces, the AFU 
losses amounted to over 2,225 troops, 10 tanks, and 71 armoured 
fighting vehicles. Seventy motor vehicles, 34 field artillery guns, 
including two manufactured by Western countries, 
were eliminated.
 
The Zapad Group of Forces has liberated 
Kalinovo (Kharkov region) and Terny
 (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The Group inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of one tank 
brigade, three mechanised brigades, one infantry brigade, one air 
mobile brigade, and one assault brigade of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine along with three territorial defence brigades and one 
National Guard brigade.
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 3,300 troops, four tanks, 27
 armoured fighting vehicles, including six U.S.-made M113 
armoured personnel carriers, and one Turkish-made Kirpi 
armoured vehicle. Moreover, the enemy sustained losses 
of 72 motor vehicles, 44 field artillery guns, with eight of
 them manufactured by NATO countries, nine electronic 
warfare stations, and 15 ammunition depots.
 
As a result of decisive actions - units of the Yug Group of 
Forces liberated Yantarnoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
They also hit six mechanised brigades, two motorised brigades, 
2 assault brigades, one infantry brigade, one mountain assault 
brigade, one airmobile brigade of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine, and two territorial defence brigades.
 
The AFU losses in this direction during the week amounted to up to
 1,655 troops, two tanks, 22 armoured fighting vehicles, including 
two U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers and one 
French-made VAB APC, 31 motor vehicles, 20 field 
artillery guns, including two U.S.-made 155-mm 
M777 howitzers. Seven ammunition depots 
were destroyed.
 
The Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing into the depths
 of enemy defences and liberated Shevchenko, Peschanoye, 
Ukrainka, and Slavyanka (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The Group inflicted losses on eight mechanised brigades, one 
motorised infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
 one marine brigade, two territorial defence brigades, two
 National Guard brigades, and the Lyut Brigade of the 
National Police of Ukraine.
 
The Ukrainian armed formations sustained losses of more than 
3,770 troops, six tanks, including three German-made Leopard 
tanks, 29 armoured fighting vehicles, including 5 M113 APCs, 
1 Bradley IFV, and 2 U.S.-made MaxxPro armoured vehicles, 
one French-made VAB APC, and one Turkish-made Cobra II 
armoured vehicle. Twenty-seven motor vehicles and 45
 field artillery guns, including three manufactured by 
Western countries, were eliminated.
 
The Vostok Group of Forces liberated Neskuchnoye
 (Donetsk People's Republic) as a result of
 intensive operations.
 
The Group inflicted losses on formations of four mechanised 
brigades, one tank brigade, one air assault brigade of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine, one marine brigade, three 
territorial defence brigades, and one National 
Guard brigade.
 
The enemy's losses amounted to more than 1,445 troops, four 
tanks, 7 armoured fighting vehicles, including one HMMWV 
and one Stryker, 48 motor vehicles, and 18 field artillery 
guns, with 5 of them manufactured by NATO countries. 
Two ammunition depots were destroyed.
 
The Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and 
hardware of two mechanised brigades, one infantry brigade, 
two coastal defence brigades of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine, one National Guard brigade, and two 
territorial defence brigades.
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 550 troops, one armoured 
fighting vehicle, 49 motor vehicles, 20 field artillery guns, 4 
electronic warfare stations, and 5 ammunition depots.
 
On 16 January 2025, Ukraine once again attempted to launch 
a missile strike against facilities in Belgorod region by six 
U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles.
 
All the missiles were shot down by air defence systems. 
There were no casualties or destruction.
 
The Russian Defence Ministry.. will take 
measures to provide a retaliatory strike.
 
Over the past week, Russia's air defence system have shot down 
12 U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, 8 UK-made 
Storm Shadow cruise missiles, 7 French-made Hammer aerial 
guided bombs, 48 U.S.-made HIMARS projectiles, and 747
 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
Over the past week, 49 Ukrainian servicemen 
have surrendered on the line of contact.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 40,643 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,650 tanks & other armoured 
fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,742 field 
artillery guns and mortars... and 30,433 units of support 
military vehicles of the enemy have been neutralised.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt.... to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 17th, 9:30am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue
 the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which 
broke into the territory of Kursk region.
 
?? Russian troops are in offensive in all directions. Despite 
the transfer of additional reserves, the enemy suffers 
heavy losses and retreats from the occupied areas.
 
A total of 63.2% (801 sq km) of the area originally occupied 
by the enemy (1,268 sq km) has been liberated in the 
Kursk region.
 
In two weeks of January, during the offensive operation, 
the Sever Group of Forces has liberated 4 settlements: 
Aleksandriya, Leonidovo, Russkoye Porechnoye, 
and Kruglenkoye.
 
Servicemen of the 7th Guards Air Assault Division, the 76th Guards 
Air Assault Division, the 83rd Separate Guards Air Assault Brigade, 
the 155th Separate Guards Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet,
 the 810th Separate Guards Marine Brigade of the Black Sea 
Fleet, as well as the 1427th Motorised Rifle Regiment 
distinguished themselves in actions when 
liberating the settlements.
 
In addition, a counter-attack launched by the Ukrainian Armed 
Forces in the direction of Berdin was repelled. The enemy 
esorted to the counter-attack... to stop the Russian 
offensive in the Kursk direction and get out of 
the blocking area.
 
The Akhmat units of the 42nd Guards Motorised Rifle Division 
together with the 106th Air Assault Division of the Airborne 
Troops inflicted significant losses on the enemy, after 
which the enemy abandoned further actions in this 
direction --- and was driven back to its
initial positions.
 
In January in Kursk direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
sustained losses of more than 5,600 troops and more than
 570 units of military hardware, including 40 tanks, 213 
infantry fighting vehicles and others, 91 artillery guns 
and mortars, and more than 210 motor vehicles.
 
Over 230 troops of the AFU have been neutralised in Kursk 
direction during the day. A tank, 3 armoured personnel 
carriers - to include two U.S.-made Stryker armoured 
personnel carriers, two armoured fighting vehicles, 
seven motor vehicles, four artillery guns, and a 
mortar have been eliminated as well.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses 
amounted to more than 52,450 troops, 304 tanks, 231 infantry 
fighting vehicles, 173 armoured personnel carriers, 1,562 
armoured fighting vehicles, 1,493 motor vehicles, 371 
artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of 
HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 
anti-aircraft missile launchers, eight transport
-loading vehicles, 93 EW stations, 13 counter
-battery warfare radars, four air defence 
radars, 30 units of engineering and 
other materiel, including 13 
counterobstacle vehicles, 
one UR-77 mine clearing 
vehicle, eight armoured 
recovery vehicles -- & 1
command post vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise the AFU units 
is in progress.
 
 
 
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A soldier of the Russian Armed Forces 
saved wounded colleagues by 
stopping a Ukrainian drone 
with his head
January 16th, 9:36pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
A Russian fighter with the call sign Hitman saved his wounded 
comrades by shooting down an APU kamikaze drone with his
 head, said the commander of a motorized rifle battalion 
with the call sign Krestik.
 
He clarified that Hitman performed his feat in 2024 during the 
battles for Avdiivka. According to Krestyk, the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces noticed Russian attack aircraft from a 
drone and sent a kamikaze drone in their direction. 
At the time of his attack, the wounded soldiers 
were descending into the basement.
 
"Hitman stood in the aisle and shielded his comrades. 
The blow fell on the head," Krestik told RT.
 
He added that Hitman survived, and even, having received a 
serious wound - did not lose heart. After he was evacuated, 
"in the hospital, doctors literally collected his head." They 
managed to partially preserve the fighter's vision.
 
A Russian fighter with the call sign Krest, told Rana 
that he spent more than 12 hours in an ambush to 
destroy an APU tank. It took him two shots to 
disable the combat vehicle. The soldier 
was awarded the Order of Courage.
 
 
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The Russian Defense Ministry reported
 on the exploits of the Russian military 
in the free defense zone
January 16th, 9pm
(Izvestia.ru)

The Ministry drew attention to the merits of Junior Sergeant 
Valery Mikhailov, who corrected the fire of Russian artillery
 when repelling the Armed Forces of Ukraine's offensive.
 
Being at the observation post under artillery fire, Mikhailov found 
two Bradley infantry fighting vehicles --- that were transferring 
Ukrainian assault units to the front line, and US-made M-777 
howitzers. Junior sergeant ensured the defeat of all the
enemy targets.
 
After that, he also detected the enemy reserves preparing to go 
on the offensive, and then transmitted their coordinates to the 
command post. The artillery, in turn, destroyed the AFU 
reinforcements. Thanks to Mikhailov's actions, the 
Russian troops managed to hold the occupied 
lines and prevent the enemy from breaking
 through the defense.
 
The Defense Ministry also noted the actions of Corporal Bulat 
Batomunkuyev, a group of attack commandos under whose 
command performed the task of capturing a stronghold of 
Ukrainian militants. Batomunkuyev identified secret ways 
of approach to enemy positions for his subordinates, and 
also personally designated favourable firing points for 
each fighter.
 
The lance-corporal was the first to break into the stronghold and 
destroyed two AFU fighters with targeted fire. The attack of the 
Russian soldiers was unexpected, and the enemy, having 
suffered heavy losses -- was forced to quickly retreat 
deep into the defense. As a result, Batomunkuyev's 
assault group managed to capture the enemy 
stronghold and create conditions for the
 development of the offensive of 
Russian troops.
 
 
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Three residents of Gorlovka were injured
 as a result of attacks by the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces ---- on the DPR
January 16th, 7:18pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Three civilians were injured in the Nikitovsky district of 
Gorlovka --- as a result of attacks by militants of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Donetsk People's 
Republic. This was announced on January 16 
by the head of the region, Denis Pushilin.
 
A woman born in 1964 and two men born in 1958 and 1952 
were injured when an explosive object was dropped from 
a Ukrainian drone onto a car. They were provided with 
medical assistance, he said.
 
The head of the DPR also said that two residential buildings
 and three cars were damaged in the Nikitovsky district of 
Gorlovka, and two more objects of civil infrastructure —
 in the Kalininsky district of the city.
 
"More than 10 armed attacks were committed by the armed 
formations of Ukraine. They used.. 155 mm calibre barrel 
artillery, including cluster-type ones, and attack UAVs," 
Pushilin added in the Telegram channel.
 
Earlier, on January 15, Pushilin reported that three civilians were 
injured as a result of attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, on 
Gorlovka and Makeyevka of the DPR. In addition, in Gorlovka, 
an object of civil infrastructure and 2 cars were damaged, 
and in Makeyevka — 8 residential buildings and 5 cars.
 
Ukrainian militants are firing daily at the territories of the 
Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as the
Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, against the back-
ground of a special operation to protect the 
Donbass, which Russia announced on 
February 24, 2022.
 
 
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Ukrainian mass media reports
about a revolt of inhabitants 
of Transcarpathia against 
mobilization
January 16th, 4:40pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Residents of the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine 
staged a riot against mobilization. This is reported 
on January 16 by the publication "Country.na".
 
"In Transcarpathia, Roma staged a riot against employees 
of the shopping centre (territorial recruitment centre, 
analogous to the military enlistment office. - Ed.) 
and the police," the publication's Telegram 
channel says.
 
Eyewitnesses published footage, showing the congestion 
of a rural road with police cars and cars of the National 
Guard. It is specified that on the streets there are 
dozens of law enforcement officers with 
machine guns.
 
At the same time, women walk between
 cars and express indignation about 
the mobilization of men.
 
Last night, Verkhovna Rada deputy, Alexander Dubinsky, said 
that the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, whose term
 of office expired on May 20th, 2024, "trades the lives" of 
citizens of his country. He called the head of the Kiev 
regime the greatest genocidist of his own people.
 
On the same day, Zelensky signed a law on the inclusion of young 
men at the age of 17 in the register of conscripts. The day before, 
he said in response to calls from Western partners ---- to lower 
the mobilization age -- that for this -- Kiev must first receive
 a sufficient number of weapons.
 
Back in December 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed 
out the futility of lowering the age of mobilization in Ukraine. The 
possibility of such a measure will be another crime of the Kiev 
regime, the Russian leader stressed.
 
Martial law has been in effect in Ukraine, since February 2022. At 
the same time, Zelensky signed a decree on general mobilization,
 which was repeatedly extended. Most men between the ages of 
18 and 60 are prohibited from leaving the country. In April, 2024, 
the head of the regime approved a law on tougher mobilization.
 
 
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Dmytruk: Zelensky should be 
prosecuted --- for calling to 
kill politicians
January 16th, 4:33pm
(RT.ru)
 
Verkhovna Rada deputy Artem Dmytruk has called for 
a criminal case to be opened against Volodymyr 
Zelensky ---- for his calls to crack down on 
unwanted politicians.
 
"The greatest (Zelensky. - RT) threatens, and calls for 
killing politicians. As for me, another good criminal 
case for Zelensky!" - RIA Novosti quotes Dmitruk.
 
Earlier, Verkhovna Rada deputy, Alexander Dubinsky, 
named Zelensky --- as the main obstacle to peace
 in Ukraine.
 
He also pointed out that Zelensky's steps 
speak of ''a stalemate'' for Ukraine.
 
 
 
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The comrade of the fighter Safon
 who was lost near Kharkov
 told about the character 
of a colleague
January 16th, 3:29pm
(RT.ru)
 
A friend of the 19-year-old tanker from Kurgan Danila, 
who died in the Kharkiv region, with the call sign 
Saphon, told RT about the character of 
a colleague.
 
Comrade Safon with the call sign Zmey told how his group 
near Trostyants ......was surrounded by AFU fighters.
 
"There were many times more of them. The battle was fierce. 
Sapho came to rescue us first, then with other tankers 
managed to pull us out. They broke through the ring 
from different directions," he said.
 
Despite his age, Danila was brave and experienced, say 
colleagues. He rode any vehicle - and was not afraid to 
overtake fuel trucks under a swarm of enemy drones.
 
The soldier was killed by a shell explosion in the Kharkiv region. 
Shortly before that, he was awarded the medal "Participant of 
the SVO".  Posthumously, he received the Order of Courage.
 
Earlier it became known that a resident of the Kursk region 
called the AFU fire on himself to cover the evacuation of
eight women and children - from Obukhovka village.
 
 
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The underground coordinator Lebedev:
the blow - is put on an airfield in the 
Nikolaev area
January 16th, 12:54pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The strike hit a Ukrainian military airfield - where two planes 
could be located. This was stated by the coordinator of the
 pro-Russian Nikolaev resistance, Sergey Lebedev.
He specified that the airfield is located in
 the village of Martynovka.
 
"The explosion is serious," Lebedev told RIA Novosti.
 
Earlier, the underground coordinator reported a strike 
in the direction of an airfield and a military town 
located in Pryluki, Chernihiv region.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt... to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 16th, 10:35am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue 
the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which 
broke into the territory of Kursk region.
 
The Sever Group of Forces' units have engaged formations of one 
tank brigade, one heavy mechanised brigade, four mechanised 
brigades, two air assault brigades, one marine brigade, and 
three territorial defence brigades of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine close to Viktorovka, Guyevo, Gornal, Kurilovka, 
Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolayevo-
Daryino, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Pogrebki, 
Sverdlikovo, Sudzha, and Cherkasskoye 
Porechnoye. One counter-attack 
launched by AFU units 
was repelled.
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery strikes 
engaged AFU manpower and hardware near Bondarevka, 
Zamostye, Zaoleshenka, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Loknya,
Martynovka, Mirny, Yuzhny as well as Basovka, 
Belovody, Veselovka, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, 
and Miropolye in Sumy region.
 
Over the past 24 hours, over 210 troops, two infantry fighting 
vehicles, one armoured fighting vehicle, six motor vehicles, 
one U.S.-made M777 howitzer, and eight mortars, have 
been neutralised.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses 
amounted to ---- more than 52,330 troops, 305 tanks, 231 infantry 
fighting vehicles, 170 armoured personnel carriers, 1,567 
armoured fighting vehicles, 1,486 motor vehicles, 367 
artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers ---- including 13 of 
HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 anti
-aircraft missile launchers, eight transport-loading
 vehicles, 93 EW stations, 14 counter-battery 
warfare radars, four air defence radars, 30 
units of engineering and other materiel, 
including 15 counterobstacle vehicles,
 one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, 8
 armoured recovery vehicles, and 
one command post vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise the AFU units 
is in progress.
 
 
 
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Military commander Kukushkin: 
Russian fighters have gained a 
foothold in the Baranovkaarea
area of the DPR
January 16th, 10:22am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian military has established a foothold in the village of 
Baranovka, east of the city of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) in the 
DPR, which is being fought for. This was reported on the air of 
the program "60 minutes" on "Russia 1" by military 
correspondent Pavel Kukushkin.
 
He also noted -- that the soldiers of the Russian Armed 
Forces are holding an important junction under control.
 
"Our fighters have gained a foothold in the Baranovka area and 
continue to hold the interchange that goes from Pokrovsk to 
the east. This is the route along which the enemy's Toretsk 
and Chasovyar groups are supplied," the military 
commander said.
 
Also, the Russian military is approaching "the southern underbelly 
of Pokrovsk." The Ukrainian Armed Forces, in an attempt to stop 
the Russian army, blew up a mine near the city. However, 
according to Kukushkin, this did not stop the fighters 
of the Russian Armed Forces.
 
Western analysts believe that the battle for Pokrovsk 
this year will be a major and difficult battle - for the
 Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 
 
 
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Military commander Kukushkin: soldiers of 
Russia's Armed Forces are approaching
the village of Ulakly in the DPR
January 16th, 10:19am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian military is approaching the village of Ulakly in the 
Donetsk People's Republic. This was stated on the air of the 
program "60 minutes" on the TV channel "Russia" by
 military correspondent Pavel Kukushkin.
 
Ulakli is located in the west of the liberated city of Kurakhov.
 
"Fighting is taking place in the area of Dachnoye settlements 
and our fighters are approaching the village of Ulakly. Thus, 
we narrow this fire bag and push the enemy further west 
towards the Dnipropetrovsk region," Kukushkin said.
 
On January 12, the Russian Armed Forces liberated the
village of Yantarnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation
January 16th, 9:25pm
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
continue the special military operation.
 
In Kharkov direction, the Sever Group of Forces's units hit 
formations of one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU 
close to Volchansk (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 40 troops,
 two motor vehicles, and one artillery gun.
 
The Zapad Group of Forces' units improved the situation along the 
front line, delivered strikes at manpower and hardware of three 
mechanised brigades and one infantry brigade of the AFU near 
Dvurechnaya, Zapadnoye, Zagoruykovka, Boguslavka (Kharkov 
region), Novoyegorovka (Lugansk People's Republic), and
Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to more than 470 troops, two armoured 
fighting vehicles, 18 motor vehicles, 1 Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 
MLRS launcher, and four field artillery guns. 1 electronic warfare 
station and three ammunition depots, have been neutralised.
 
The Yug Group of Forces' units captured more advantageous lines
 and positions, defeated formations of six mechanised brigades 
and 2 assault brigades of the AFU near Kramatorsk, Minkovka, 
Chasov Yar, Alekseyevo-Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka, 
Sribnoye, and Dachnoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 260 troops, one tank, four 
armoured fighting vehicles, five pickup trucks, and seven 
artillery guns, to include two U.S.-made 155-mm 
M777 howitzers.
 
The Tsentr Group of Forces' units continued advancing into the 
depths of the enemy's defence, inflicted losses on manpower 
and hardware of seven mechanised brigades, one motorised 
infantry brigade of the AFU, three national guard brigades, 
and the Lyut Assault Brigade... of the National Police of 
Ukraine close to Dzerzhinsk, Shcherbinovka, Petrovka, 
Vozdvizhenka, Lysovka, Novovasilevka, Tarasovka,
Novoyelizavetovka, Petropavlovka and Slavyanka 
(Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to more than 580 troops, three tanks, 
to include one German-made Leopard tank, three armoured 
fighting vehicles, to include one U.S.-made M113 armoured 
personnel carrier, five motor vehicles, and three field 
artillery guns.
 
The Vostok Group of Forces' units improved the tactical situation 
and defeated formations of four mechanised brigades, one air 
assault brigade of the AFU, and three territorial defence 
brigades near Bogatyr, Konstantiopol, Alekseyevka,
 Vremevka, Novoselka (Donetsk People's Republic), 
and Gulyai Pole (Zaporozhye region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 240 troops, one tank, one U.S.-
made Stryker armoured personnel carrier, nine motor vehicles, 
and three field artillery guns, to include one German-made 
155-mm Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled artillery 
system. One electronic warfare station 
was eliminated.
 
The Dnepr Group of Forces' units have engaged manpower and 
hardware of one mechanised brigade, one infantry brigade, 
one mountain assault brigade of the AFU, a marine brigade, 
and one territorial defence brigade close to Malaya 
Tokmachka, Novodanilovka, Lobkovoye, 
Kamenskoye (Zaporozhye region), and 
Daryevka (Kherson region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 85 troops, eight motor 
vehicles, and three field artillery guns. Two electronic 
warfare stations and one ammunition depot 
were eliminated.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, 
Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces 
delivered strikes at infrastructure of military airfields, UAV 
workshops and depots, as well as engaged manpower 
clusters and military hardware in 152 areas.
 
Air defence units shot down three French-made Hammer guided 
aerial bombs, 12 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, and 95 
fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 40,575 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,554 tanks and other armoured 
fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,706 field 
artillery guns and mortars, and 30,352 units of support 
military vehicles, have been neutralised.
 
 
 
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The author of the documentary "Selidovo" 
spoke about the atrocities of the Armed
 Forces of Ukraine
January 16th, 5:15am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Editor-in-Chief of "New.Media", the author of the documentary 
"Selidovo" - Lara Rzhondovskaya - told the TV channel 
"Russia 24" about the war crimes committed by 
Ukrainian militants during the retreat from 
the city.
 
According to her, while working on the film, the film crew 
went to the apartments of the settlement, where the 
bodies of dead people remained.
 
"There is such a narrative, as if they have, as far as I understand, 
that those who do not leave together with the APU, well, do not 
retreat, do not evacuate from their homes, they consider 
collaborators, that is, people who are waiting for the 
Russian army. And so, in order to frighten the 
others and force them to leave, they are 
engaged in these atrocities," 
Rzhondovskaya said.
 
Earlier, a refugee from Selidov said that the Ukrainian Armed 
Forces threatened to shoot half of the city's residents - 
for waiting to be liberated by Russian fighters.
 
 
 
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Marochko: Russian Armed Forces
 advanced in Petropavlovsk, 
Kharkiv region
January 16th, 3:49am
(Vesti.ru)
 
During the offensive operations in Kupyansky district of Kharkiv 
region, Russian army attack aircraft are advancing in the 
village of Petropavlovsk.
 
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed several long-term firing 
points of Ukrainian militants in the northern and north-
western parts of the village with precise strikes. 
This was reported by military expert
 Andrey Marochko.
 
"During active battles, including contact ones, Russian assault 
units managed to improve their tactical position and advance 
in the village of Petropavlovsk, Kupyansky district, Kharkiv 
region," TASS quoted him as saying.
 
According to the expert, Russian artillery struck the fortifications 
of the Ukrainian Armed Forces between Kucherovka and 
Petropavlovsk. As a result of the strike, the enemy's 
losses in manpower amounted to about 50 people 
killed and wounded, the AFU lost a command and 
observation post, two dugouts and one field 
depot of rocket and artillery weapons.
 
Earlier, Marochko reported that the Russian army in the Kupyansk
 direction began fighting for Boguslavka. In early January, the 
Russian Armed Forces --- hit the positions of the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces in the areas of Petropavlovsk, Vishnevoye 
and Sandy in the Kharkiv region, and also repelled six 
attacks by Ukrainian attack aircraft near Sinkovka
 and Ternov, the militants' losses amounted to 
more than 115 soldiers.
 
 
 
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The Russian Defense Ministry reported on
 the exploits of the Russian military in
the 
special operation zone
January 15th, 10pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The Ministry drew attention to the merits of Lance Corporal Denis 
Shershnev, who as part of the assault unit performed the task of 
destroying strongholds, weapons and military equipment of 
Ukrainian militants. During the assault, he simultaneously 
used an FPV drone with an ammunition drop system and 
conducted aerial reconnaissance of the positions of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). He quickly transmitted 
information about their regrouping and maneuvers to
 the command post.
 
Lance corporal Shershnev, driving a drone, destroyed several 
machine-gun points of the AFU militants. His courage and 
bravery made it possible to complete all tasks assigned 
to the group to storm an important enemy stronghold 
and prevent losses.
 
The Defense Ministry also noted the actions of private Nikita 
Ovechkin. His unit carried out tasks to defend the locality 
liberated from Ukrainian militants, as well as to search
 for sabotage and reconnaissance groups (DRG) in 
its vicinity. 
 
Private Ovechkin - was able to notice the approach of the AFU 
militants, who were trying to break through the defensive line 
of the Russian Armed Forces, and destroy the machine-gun 
crew and part of the infantry.
 
The courage and dedication of the fighter -- made it possible to 
detect in advance the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
in the area of responsibility of Russian fighters, as well as to 
prevent the capture of positions of the Armed Forces of the 
Russian Federation.
 
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which Russian 
President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24th, 2022, 
continues. The decision was made against the background 
of the worsening situation in the region.
 
 
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Russian Armed Forces hit the
infrastructure 
of the largest
gas storage facility in the 
Lviv region
January 15th, 9:31pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The Russian military -- has successfully hit the ground 
infrastructure of the largest underground gas storage
 facility in Stryi, Lviv region. This was reported on 
January 15th, in the Ministry of Defense of
the 
Russian Federation.
 
It is specified that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
hit important objects of the gas and energy infrastructure of 
Ukraine in response to ATACMS strikes and an attempt to 
disrupt the gas supply via the Turkish Stream.
 
"One of the successfully hit targets was the ground infrastructure 
of the largest underground gas storage facility in the city of Stryi, 
Lviv region. The Russian Armed Forces continue to constantly 
monitor the situation, and any provocations of the Kiev 
regime will not go unanswered," the ministry said, 
in a statement.
 
It is reported that a group strike was carried out with 
high-precision weapons on critical objects of the 
gas and energy infrastructure of Ukraine.
 
 
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Telegraph: Thousands of Ukrainian 
refugees may lose their jobs in UK
January 15th, 8:16pm
(RT.ru)
 
Thousands of Ukrainian refugees who have arrived 
in the UK may lose their jobs ------ due to new visa 
extension rules.
 
This is reported by the Telegraph newspaper.
 
It is noted that Ukrainian refugees in Britain lose their
jobs, "because their visas ------ cannot be extended 
earlier than a month before the expiration date."
 
Earlier, Ukrainian Unity Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov 
said that Kiev is starting the process of returning 
Ukrainians from abroad - without 
coercive measures.
 
 
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 Medvedev pointed to the effectiveness 
of the system of arms supplies to
the 
Russian Armed Forces
January 15th, 3:02pm
(RT.ru)
 
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council 
Dmitry Medvedev, said that the system of arms 
supplies to the Russian Armed Forces is 
efficient and well-established.
 
He announced this during the summing up of the work 
of the working group of the Military-Industrial 
Commission of Russia to control the 
production of popular weapons.
 
"Today, we have an efficient and generally well-established 
system for the production and supply of highly demanded 
weapons and special equipment to the troops," he said.
 
According to him, there are also some 
problems that still need to be solved.
 
Earlier, Dmitry Medvedev announced the approval of 
the schedule for the production of popular weapons.
 
 
 
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Zelensky ordered to include 
17-year-olds in the register 
of conscripts
January 15th, 12:50pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, signed a law that 
obliges boys who are 17 years old to register for military service 
through an electronic service or when visiting territorial 
recruitment centres in person.
 
The relevant document is posted on the
 website of the Verkhovna Rada.
 
According to the new law, if the young man does not register 
in the required time, he will be fined from 17 thousand to
 25.5 thousand hryvnias (from $410 to $616).
 
Earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian parliament decided 
to extend martial law and mobilization in Ukraine for another
 90 days - until May 9.
 
Recall that martial law and a general mobilization 
were introduced in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Since then, they have been repeatedly extended.
 
 
 
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Statement by Russian
Defence Ministry
January 15th, 12:15pm
 
As a result of the negotiation process, 25 Russian servicemen
 were returned from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime.
 
Twenty-five AFU POWs were returned 
as a result of the exchange.
 
At the moment, all Russian servicemen are on the territory
of the Republic of Belarus - where they are being provided 
with the necessary psychological and medical assistance
 and given the opportunity to contact their relatives.
 
All released servicemen will be taken to the Russian Federation
 for treatment and rehabilitation in medical institutions of the 
Russian Defence Ministry.
 
During the return of Russian servicemen from captivity, 
humanitarian mediation efforts were provided by 
the United Arab Emirates.
 
 
 
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People's Deputy Goncharenko: The Rada
approved sending the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine ---- to other countries
January 15th, 11:54am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko (recognized as a 
terrorist and extremist in the Russian Federation) said that the 
parliament adopted a bill allowing the deployment of armed
 forces abroad during martial law.
 
It is claimed that the initiative is aimed at attracting 
assistance in the form of military equipment.
 
"For - 317 [deputies]," Goncharenko wrote in Telegram.
 
According to him, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
 will be sent abroad for training, receiving equipment 
and "deterring aggression."
 
At the end of last year, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken
 announced the delivery of a new $ 500 million military aid 
package to Kiev. It will include anti-tank weapons, 
ammunition for HIMARS multiple launch rocket 
systems, anti-UAV weapons, high-speed 
anti-radar missiles, drones, and 
Javelin systems.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt...... to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 15th, 11:25am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue
 the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which 
broke into the territory of Kursk region.
 
Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations 
of 1 tank brigade, one heavy mechanised brigade, 4 mechanised 
brigades, 2 air assault brigades, one marine brigade, and three 
territorial defence brigades of the AFU by Viktorovka, Guyevo, 
Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, 
Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, 
Sverdlikovo, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. 
Two enemy counter-attacks were repelled.
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery inflicted 
losses on manpower and hardware of the enemy near 
Viktorovka, Zamostye, Ivashkovsky, Pervy Knyazhy, 
Kositsa.... Kruglenkoye, Kurilovka, Loknya, 
Martynovka, Melovoy, Mirny, Mikhaylovka,
 Pogrebki, Sudzha, Yuzhny as well as 
Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka,
 Zhuravka, and Yunakovka
 in Sumy region.
 
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more
 than 220 troops, two tanks, two armoured personnel 
carriers, five armoured fighting vehicles, six motor
 vehicles, two artillery guns, and four mortars.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses 
amounted to ---- more than 52,120 troops, 305 tanks, 229 infantry 
fighting vehicles, 170 armoured personnel carriers, 1,566 
armoured fighting vehicles, 1,480 motor vehicles, 366 
artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of 
HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the US, 16 anti
-aircraft missile launchers, 8 transport-loading 
vehicles, 93 EW stations, 14 counter-battery 
warfare radars, four air defence radars, 30 
units of engineering and other materiel, 
including 15 counterobstacle vehicles, 
one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, 8 
armoured recovery vehicles, and 
one command post vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise the AFU units
 is in progress.
 
 
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Rada --- extends martial law 
and mobilization in Ukraine
 until May 9
January 15th, 9:46am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Verkhovna Rada has decided to extend martial law and
 mobilization in Ukraine for another 90 days, until May 9, 
said Yaroslav Zheleznyak, a member of the Ukrainian 
Parliament, on Telegram.
 
The previous extension will expire on February 7.
 
Bills on extending martial law and mobilization were introduced
 to the Parliament by Volodymyr Zelensky, whose powers as 
head of state expired.... in May last year.
 
Martial law and general mobilization were introduced in 
Ukraine on February 24, 2022 and since then they
 have been repeatedly extended.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation 
January 15th, 9:25am
 
This morning - the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
delivered a group strike by precision weaponry and attack 
unmanned aerial vehicles at critical objects of gas and 
power infrastructure ensuring operation of Ukrainian
 defence industry enterprises.
 
The goal of the strike has been achieved. All the 
assigned targets have been engaged.
 
In Kharkov region, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted 
losses on formations of one motorised infantry brigade of the
 AFU near Dergachi, Tsirkuny, & Volchansk (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 30 troops, six motor vehicles, 
1 Grad MLRS combat vehicle, 3 field artillery guns, including 1
U.S.-made Paladin self-propelled artillery system. 
Two ammunition depots - were destroyed.
 
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation 
along the front line and inflicted losses on manpower & hardware 
of three mechanised brigades, one tank brigade of the AFU, and 
two territorial defence brigades near Dvurechnaya, Zapadnoye, 
Zagoruykovka, Podoly, Petropavlovka, Zagryzovo, Lozovaya 
(Kharkov region), Ivanovka, and Torskoye (Donetsk 
People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to more than 460 troops, two U.S.-made 
M113 armoured personnel carriers, 13 pickup trucks, five artillery 
guns, including three NATO-made guns. Two ammunition depots 
and one Kvertus electronic warfare station were destroyed.
 
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines 
and positions and inflicted losses on the formations of three 
mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade, and one 
mountain assault brigade of the AFU near Zvanovka, 
Slavyansk, Nikolayevka, Seversk, Yantarnoye, 
Verkhnekamenskoye, Pereyezdnoye, 
Dachnoye, Sukhiye Yaly, & Chasov 
Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 230 troops, one tank, three 
armoured fighting vehicles, four pickup trucks, and four 
artillery guns. One ammunition depot was wiped out.
 
As a result of successful offensive operations, units of the Tsentr 
Group of Forces liberated Ukrainka (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
Losses were inflicted -- on the manpower and hardware of six 
mechanised brigades of the AFU plus one territorial defence 
brigade, 2 national guard brigades, and 1 formation of the 
International Legion near Shcherbinovka, Shevchenko, 
Dzerzhinsk, Slavyanka, Novovasilevka, Tarasovka, 
Baranovka, Vozdvizhenka, Petrovka, Lysovka, 
Petropavlovka, and Novoyelizavetovka 
(Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to more than 560 troops, 
one German-made Leopard tank, four armoured 
fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, and 
six artillery guns.
 
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing to 
the depth of the enemy's defences. Losses were inflicted 
on formations of three mechanised brigades and one air 
assault brigade of the AFU near Konstantinopol, Novy 
Komar, Novoselka, Razliv, and Vremevka (Donetsk
 People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 200 troops, two armoured 
fighting vehicles, 8 motor vehicles, one 155-mm Bogdana 
self-propelled artillery system, and 1 ammunition depot.
 
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower 
and hardware of one mechanised brigade, two coastal defence 
brigades of the AFU, one territorial defence brigade -- and one 
national guard brigade near Shcherbaki, Blakitnoye, Orekhov,
Novopokrovka (Zaporozhye region), Dneprovskoye, 
Antonovka, Nikolskoye, and Ivanovka 
(Kherson region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 95 troops, 
13 motor vehicles, and 2 field artillery guns.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, 
and Missile Troops & Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces 
struck infrastructure of military airfields, as well as engaged 
manpower and hardware of the enemy --- in 137 areas.
 
Air defence units shot down two French-made Hammer guided 
aviation bombs, 10 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, and 
85 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 40,480 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,539 tanks and other armoured 
fighting vehicles, 1,509 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,630 field 
artillery guns and mortars, and 30,305 units of support 
military vehicles... have been neutralised.
 
 
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Medvedchuk: Ukraine is occupied by
 Zelensky's Nazi junta, not Russia
January 15th, 6am
(Vesti.ru)
 
In Odessa, another language and cultural scandal, where the 
Zelensky government continues to destroy monuments to 
cultural figures. Odessa residents were not afraid of the 
Nazis and came to a rally in defense of the monument 
to Vladimir Vysotsky.
 
The action was not numerous, but given the brutality of 
Zelensky's jackals, these people can be called heroes 
of their city - with confidence.
 
"No one will make Odessa residents forget the glorious history of 
the city," reads one of the posters in the hands of the protesters.
 
The monument to Vysotsky stood at the Odessa film Studio, where 
one of the most popular Soviet detective stories "The Meeting 
Place cannot be changed" was shot. By the decision of the 
authorities, it was dismantled on New Year's Eve.
 
"Those barbarian rioters who demolished it, contrary to basic 
historical justice, should not win. If we turn a blind eye to the 
fact that poor and insignificant people are demolishing a 
monument to a man who tore his heart in the name of 
Freedom and Truth, then we are all worthless," wrote 
Odessa journalist Shtekel. And he was immediately 
summoned to the SBU ....on the denunciation of 
Nazi bastards.
 
It is curious that Shtekel is the organizer of the Odessa 
"Euromaidan" - so Domaidan was born, the revolution, 
as you know, devours its children, such as Shtekel... 
brought to power the Nazis -- corrupt officials and 
murderers of their people. Does Shtekel... really 
hope that those who burned Odessa residents
 alive on May 2, 2014, will play by the rules? 
Naivete? Stupid? Provocation to identify 
opponents of the regime?
 
Odessa, conquered by the Nazis, is trying to resist. But whatever
 merits the protesters may have had for the Zelensky regime, 
they face the true face of the criminal Nazi government. 
Odessa resident and former host of "Heads and Tails" 
Serga --- who went to serve in the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine after the start of the invasion, recorded 
an appeal in which he called for an end to the 
war with monuments and Russian culture. 
Serga looked impressive in a military 
uniform, but it didn't help.
 
The head of the Odessa military-civil Administration, Kiper,
 in response to such calls from the serviceman, suggested 
that opponents of the demolition of monuments go to Ufa
 or Krasnoyarsk.
 
The keeper, without hesitation, sets out the ideology of a primitive 
barbarian who sincerely believes that there can be no history 
before him, since only his life is the beginning of history and 
has value, so he asserts himself by destroying monuments 
of an alien culture. It should be remembered that the Nazi 
is alien to any culture, he does not have his own. Such a
 person does not even know that the work on which the 
film was made at Odessa Film Studio with Vysotsky's
 participation was called "Era of Mercy". 
Unfortunately, this era of mercy
 has not yet arrived.
 
The Nazi grin of the regime frightens even its sponsors, the British 
The Economist criticizes the demolition of monuments in Odessa. 
An unusual image has appeared on the cover of a special issue 
of The Economist magazine. There you can see an Asian fish 
shop. Suddenly, in one of the aquariums there is a bust of 
Alexander Pushkin. Many users saw this as a hint of the 
demolition of the monument to the Russian poet 
in Odessa.
 
The publication previously published an article "Cancel culture
 in Ukraine", which spoke about the loss of the city's cultural 
identity. So, in Odessa, 19 monuments were blacklisted, 
including monuments to Maxim Gorky, Vladimir 
Vysotsky and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.
 
"The result of this de-russification is fear and polarization. What 
was marginal becomes mainstream. On the boulevard -- people 
look away when asked about the statues. "The fear of talking 
is replaced by the fear of thinking, until people no longer 
know what they are thinking," says Anastasia 
Pilyavskaya, an anthropologist from Odessa, 
at King's College London," the article says.
 
"The criminal cases against 'collaborators' clearly show 
that the threat of being branded as a supporter of 
Russia --- is real," writes The Economist.
 
There is also a mention of the head of the
 Odessa military-civil administration:
 
"Oleg Kiper, the head of the regional military administration, does 
not care too much about such difficulties (preserving cultural 
heritage). A former prosecutor... who served under Viktor 
Yanukovich, the Moscow-backed kleptocrat who was 
Ukraine's president from 2010 to 2014 --- he was 
removed from official positions - but reinstated
in 2019. As a non-elected official -------- he was 
interested in following orders ----  not in what
the people of Odessa thought of themselves. 
So, in July 2024, he ordered the complete 
removal of statues in the city ...and the 
renaming of streets, which triggered 
a culture war... that is tearing the 
city apart."
 
The Economist makes a clear hint that the Keeper is simply taking 
revenge on Maidan activists and selflessly serves Zelensky, who 
returned him to power. Therefore, while hundreds of thousands 
of innocent citizens are being killed at the front, Zelensky's 
team and the Nazis --- are devouring each other, and this 
process cannot be stopped. But this political infection,
 fighting among themselves, continues to parasitize 
the body of Odessa and other Russian cities.
 
But no matter how much Zelensky's jackals, Western-funded Nazis, 
"piglets" who demand full control of the country, "brothers from 
the front" who naively think that they can influence something, 
this will not change anything at all. To create a "new" nation, 
and in reality not a new one, but just a nation of servants of 
the collective West, white slaves, mankurts who do not 
remember their history... barbarians who do not 
recognize any culture -- sadists who destroy 
their people, nothing will work, and all of
this... has happened.
 
"If the current government tries to manage this land without taking 
into account historical and cultural realities, it will lose these lands 
along with the population, this process has been launched and it is 
impossible to stop it. Without a change in the political course and 
method of governance, it is generally impossible," I wrote in the 
article "Russophobic project, or why Ukraine is located on 
historically Russian lands."
 
And how can you manage a nation ----- if you don't understand its 
historical roots, culture, faith, and traditions at all? If instead
of 
carefully studying the real history and culture....... we
introduce extravagant myths and blatant barbarism?
With this 
approach you can't create any "European
nation" ---  
but you can easily destroy the people,
which is 
what all this corrupt pack is doing,
destroying 
each other, in between.
 
And if a modern Zelensky official dislikes Pushkin -------- but likes 
Shukhevych, who brought slavery, genocide and concentration 
camps to Ukraine, then he is just as much an occupier and a 
criminal as his idol. After all, all these modern Nazis are 
afraid - that Russian literature will awaken a sense of 
dignity and justice in Ukrainian citizens - and then 
they will be overthrown once and for all. That is
why they destroy the rational, the good,
 the eternal.
 
But this is not done by statesmen, but by the distraught occupiers, 
who, in fact, the Zelensky regime, the Nazis and the little pigs are. 
And Ukraine needs to be freed from these invaders, which is what
 is happening now. After that, these barbarians and criminals will 
be tried, which is inevitable. It is the work of the classics of 
Russian literature that reminds these mutts that the time 
for their trial will soon come, so they are fighting with 
monuments, but this will not help them in any way.
 
 
The Chairman of the Council of
the Other Ukraine Movement,
 
 Viktor Medvedchuk
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt ---- to invade
 Russian territory in Kursk region 
January 14th, 1pm
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue 
the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which
 broke into the territory of Kursk region.
 
Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations 
of 1 tank brigade, 1 heavy mechanised brigade, 4 mechanised 
brigades, 2 air assault brigades, 1 marine brigade, and three 
territorial defence brigades of the AFU near Viktorovka, 
Guyevo, Ivashkovsky, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya 
Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novaya 
Sorochina, Pogrebki, Sverdlikovo, and 
Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. In 
addition, three enemy 
counter-attacks, 
were repelled.
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and artillery engaged 
AFU manpower and hardware close to Agronom, Viktorovka, 
Guyevo, Zamostye, Ivashkovsky, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, 
Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Malaya Loknya, 
Makhnovka, Martynovka, Mikhaylovka, Mirny, 
Nikolsky, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Sverdlikovo, 
Sudzha, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, 
Yuzhny as well as Basovka, 
Belovody, Veselovka, and 
Zhuravka in Sumy region.
 
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses were over 460 troops,
 three tanks, two armoured personnel carriers, 22 armoured 
fighting vehicles, 18 motor vehicles, six artillery guns, and 
one mortar.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses 
amounted to more than 51,900 troops, 303 tanks, 229 infantry 
fighting vehicles, 168 armoured personnel carriers, 1,561 
armoured fighting vehicles, 1,474 motor vehicles, 364 
artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of 
HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 
anti-aircraft missile launchers, 8 transport-
loading vehicles, 93 EW stations, 14 
counter-battery warfare radars, 4 
air defence radars.... 30 units of 
engineering & other materiel --
including 15 counterobstacle 
vehicles, one UR-77 mine 
clearing vehicle, eight 
armoured recovery 
vehicles and one 
command post 
vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise the AFU units
 is in progress.
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation
January 14th, 11:40am
 
Last night, the AFU launched a missile strike at objects in 
Bryansk region by six U.S.-made ATACMS operational-
tactical missiles, six UK-made Storm Shadow air-
based cruise missiles, and 31 fixed-wing 
unmanned aerial vehicles from the 
territory of Ukraine.
 
During the air defence battle, all air attack means were 
shot down by the air defence crews. There were no 
casualties or wounded as a result of the attack.
 
In addition, two UK-made Storm Shadow air-based cruise 
missiles were shot down over the Black Sea waters.
 
These actions of the Kiev regime, supported by 
Western curators, will not go unanswered.
 
***
 
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces defeated 
formations of one motorised infantry brigade and two territorial 
defence brigades close to Liptsy & Volchansk (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses were up to 50 troops, five motor vehicles, and two 
field artillery guns. Three ammunition depots were destroyed.
 
As a result of decisive actions, units of the Zapad Group 
of Forces liberated Terny (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
Losses were inflicted on the manpower and hardware of two 
mechanised brigades, one assault brigade, one airmobile 
brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades 
close to Dvurechnaya, Zapadnoye, Zagoruykovka, 
Boguslavka, Lozovaya (Kharkov region), 
Ivanovka, and Torskoye (Donetsk 
People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses were up to 600 troops, one tank, eight armoured 
fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M113 and 1 Turkish-
made Kirpi armoured fighting vehicles, 13 motor vehicles, & 5
 artillery guns, including 2 NATO-made guns. 3 ammunition 
depots and four electronic warfare stations were 
wiped out.
 
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines 
and positions and defeated the formations of two mechanised 
brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, and one air assault 
brigade nr Konstantinovka, Markovo, Podolskoye, Orekhovo-
Vasilevka, Minkovka, Yantarnoye, Kramatorsk, Dachnoye, 
Kurdyumovka, Sukhiye Yaly, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk 
People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses were more than 220 troops, four armoured 
fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M113 and one 
French-made VAB armoured fighting vehicles, 2 motor 
vehicles, and four artillery guns.
 
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces - improved the tactical
situation along the front line and inflicted losses on the
manpower & hardware 
of five mechanised brigades of
the AFU and two national guard 
brigades ----- close
to Shcherbinovka, Shevchenko, Dzerzhinsk, 
Slavyanka, Novovasilevka, Ukrainka,
Solenoye, Vozdvizhenka, 
Petrovka,
Lysovka, Petropavlovka --- and
Novoyelizavetovka 
(Donetsk
People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses were up to 500 troops, one armoured 
fighting vehicle, and two motor vehicles. Eight field 
artillery guns were eliminated.
 
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing 
into the depth of the enemy's defences and liberated 
Neskuchnoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
Losses were inflicted on formations of two mechanised brigades 
of the AFU and three territorial defence brigades close to 
Konstantinopol, Velikaya Novoselka, Novopol, Bogatyr, 
Vremevka (Donetsk People's Republic), and 
Novodarovka (Zaporozhye region).
 
The AFU losses were up to 220 troops, seven motor vehicles,
 two artillery guns, including one 155-mm Polish-made Krab 
self-propelled artillery system.
 
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and 
hardware of one mechanised brigade, one infantry brigade, 
& two coastal defence brigades of the AFU near Veseloye, 
Novopokrovka, Novoandreyevka, Kamenskoye 
(Zaporozhye region), Pridneprovskoye, and 
Antonovka (Kherson region).
 
The AFU losses were up to 50 troops, 8 
motor vehicles and 3 field artillery guns.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, 
Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces 
struck power objects ensuring operation of a Ukrainian 
defence industry enterprise, infrastructure of military 
airfields, as well as engaged clusters of the enemy's 
manpower and hardware - in 148 areas.
 
Air defence units shot down 6 U.S.-made ATACMS operational-
tactical missiles, 8 UK-made Storm Shadow air-based
cruise missiles, 1 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectile,
and 180
 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles,
including 146 
outside the special
military operation.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 40,395 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,526 tanks and other armoured 
fighting vehicles, 1,508 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,569 field 
artillery guns and mortars, and 30,255 units of support 
military vehicles, have been neutralised.
 
 
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Military commander Razin ---- the 
Krasnoarmeysk-Konstantinovka 
highway is under the control of 
the Russian Armed Forces
January 14th, 11:10am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The highway between Krasnoarmeysk and Konstantinovka 
in the DPR is under full fire control of Russian fighters. 
This was stated on the air of the program "60 
minutes" on "Russia 1" by military 
correspondent Vladimir Razin.
 
The fighting is now going on around Krasnoarmeysk, the 
military commander noted. The Russian Armed Forces 
are squeezing out the militants of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine and cutting off their logistics routes.
 
"Now the main battles are taking place just for the highway
 between Krasnoarmeysk and Konstantinovka. This is also
 a very serious logistical artery for the enemy, which until
 recently allowed the enemy to supply the group in 
Konstantinovka. But now the fighting is already 
close enough. The track is completely under 
our fire control from Vozdvizhenka, where 
the fighting is currently taking place," 
Razin said.
 
Earlier it became known that fighting began in the DPR 
near the largest coal enterprise in Ukraine – the 
Pokrovskoye mine management.
 
 
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The deputy of the Rada --- predicted a 
catastrophe for Ukraine when trying
 to reduce the mobilization age
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the 
Operational Information Dept)
January 13th, 10: 27pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Ukrainians will "demolish" the country's President, Vladimir
Zelensky, for trying to lower the mobilization age to 18 
years, said the opposition-minded deputy of the 
Verkhovna Rada, Alexander Dubinsky, in
his
 Telegram channel.
 
"If Zelensky tries to lower the mobilization age to 18, he will be 
demolished," the politician wrote. In his opinion, employees of 
military registration and enlistment offices are also in danger: 
parents will attack them, wanting to protect their sons.
 
In the event of a decision to lower the mobilization age in
Ukraine, he predicted "catastrophic consequences" for 
the country. 
 
"The failure of the idea of an appeal for 18-year-olds 
will only emphasize the failure of the regime,
which 
will begin to wobble for real,"
the 
deputy explained.
 
Earlier in Ukraine, territorial recruitment centres (TCCs,
the Ukrainian equivalent of a military enlistment office) 
put on the wanted list on suspicion of evading military 
service ......more than half a million people.
 
 
 
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NTV: after the capture of Krasnoarmeysk, 
Russia's advance ....will be without 
much resistance
January 13th, 10:07pm
(RT.ru)
 
Colonel of the Austrian Armed Forces Markus Reisner
expressed his conviction in an interview with N-TV
that - after taking control of Krasnoarmeysk - the 
advance of the Russian Armed Forces towards
the Dnipropetrovsk region..... will take place 
without much resistance.
 
"The Ukrainian Armed Forces, will have
little chance of stopping them," he said.
 
At the same time, Reisner added that the Ukrainians 
themselves, have repeatedly pointed out that their 
positions to the west of the city... are very 
poorly developed.
 
Earlier, Igor Kimakovsky, an adviser to the head of the DPR, 
told Solovyov LIVE that the Russian Armed Forces are 
taking Krasnoarmeysk and Dimitrov in a pincer grip 
from the west and east.
 
Also, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Mariana Bezuglaya,
 in her Telegram channel called the current situation in the 
area ----- catastrophic, for Ukraine.
 
 
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The Russian Defense Ministry reported 
on the exploits of Russian servicemen 
in the special operation zone
January 13th, 9pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The Ministry drew attention to the merits of Corporal Daniil 
Chekalin, who, as part of a motorized rifle unit, performed 
a combat mission to hold the lines in an important 
tactical area.
 
While conducting surveillance in his area of responsibility, 
Chekalin promptly detected a sabotage and recon group 
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) moving in the 
direction of Russian positions. After that, he
 reported this to the commander of the 
communications unit and hit the 
enemy machine gunner with 
the first shots.
 
Then, during the battle, the soldier shackled the actions of 
the enemy group, depriving it of the possibility of further 
advancement. He personally destroyed most of the 
saboteurs and held the occupied line until 
reinforcements arrived. 
 
Thanks to Chekalin's actions, the Russian military managed to 
repel several attacks by Ukrainian militants on the assigned 
line of defense, maintain their positions --- and prevent a 
breakthrough in the defense in an important direction.
 
The Defense Ministry also noted the actions of senior Ensign
 Vasily Skorobagatov. He, commanding a repair platoon,
 performed tasks to restore weapons and special 
military equipment that had been damaged.
 
Skorobagatov evacuated equipment from the battlefield under 
enemy fire & delivered it to assembly points and stationary 
repair shops, and then provided repairs and replacement
of components and assemblies - in the field. Under the 
leadership and with the personal participation of the 
serviceman, more than 20 armoured vehicles of 
various types were restored after damage 
during the fighting.
 
Earlier, on January 12, the Defense Ministry reported that private 
Kirill Yakovlev, controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), 
destroyed an AFU firing point. The serviceman determined 
the coordinates of the Ukrainian machine-gun crew, 
prepared an attack drone and sent it to a given 
point. After several drops of ammunition from 
the drone, the operator found... that the 
enemy's firing point was destroyed.
 
On the same day, the crews of T-90M Proryv tanks of the 
combined-arms army of the Zapad group of forces hit 
 -- platoon strongholds, ammunition depots and APU 
personnel in the special operation zone. After that, 
the tankers immediately drove into the so-called 
sump tank, where the enemy could not track 
their parking lot, and then moved on to the 
next combat mission.
 
 
 
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Expert Orlov: competent mercenaries of 
the first wave......  left Ukraine long ago
January 13th, 7:04pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Well-trained mercenaries of the first wave, left Ukraine 
after the Russian Armed Forces hit a training camp in 
Lviv on July 6, 2023. This was stated by military 
expert, Vladimir Orlov, on the air of the TV 
channel "Russia 24".
 
Earlier, it was reported that, against the background of a 
personnel shortage, people who are unfit for service for 
health reasons --- including patients with epilepsy, are 
being mobilized into the ranks of the Ukrainian army. 
In addition, the National Battalion of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine, called on 15-year-olds.....
 to prepare for mobilization.
 
"You need to understand that the first wave of mercenaries who 
really came from the West, from all the suburbs to fight against 
Russia ended after our missiles arrived at the Lviv training 
camps. After that, there are no significant mercenaries on 
the territory of the conflict. All the decent mercenaries 
who are tied with a common corporate belt have gone 
to guard Saudi towers, to teach someone in Africa. 
In general, where it is safe ...and where they pay 
well," said Orlov.
 
In Russia, in 2024, more than 50 foreign mercenaries recruited 
to participate in combat operations in the ranks of the 
Ukrainian army, were convicted in absentia.
 
 
 
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Miroshnik called inhumane 
shooting of civilians --- by 
GUR snipers in the DPR
January 13th, 6:42pm
(Veti.ru)
 
The shooting of civilians in the DPR -- by snipers of the Main 
Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense 
of Ukraine... which it tried to pass off as an allegedly 
successful ambush on a group of Russian soldiers
is a violation of human norms of morality. 
 
This was stated on the air of the TV channel "Russia 24" by 
the Russian Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-large for 
crimes of the Kiev regime, Rodion Miroshnik.
 
The Armed Forces of Ukraine - published footage of how 
the militants shot a couple of pensioners who had only 
personal belongings with them. Later, the video was 
replaced, blurring the moment of the shot ---- and
 those who were shot.
 
"When a sniper shoots at a grandmother who is just trying to 
survive - you know, this is the height of blasphemy, this is 
the cruellest cynicism and, of course, a violation of not 
just the norms of international humanitarian law, but
some human norms that, in my opinion, have long 
been despised in the format of the Kiev regime: 
from the top leadership to that militant who is 
holding a sniper rifle in his hands " 
Miroshnik said.
 
Earlier, Rodion Miroshnik reported that last year --- more than 4 
thousand peaceful Russian citizens were injured as a result of 
strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). Almost 800 
people, including 50 children, were killed.
 
 
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Murder of General Kirillov
by Nikolay Sergeev
January 13th, 6:38pm
(Kommersant.ru)
 
As became known to Kommersant, in the criminal case of the 
terrorist attack, the victims of which were the head of the 
radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of 
the Russian Armed forces, Lieutenant General Igor 
Kirillov and his assistant, two new defendants 
appeared at once.
 
 Accomplices of a citizen of Uzbekistan Akhmad Kurbanov, who 
on the instructions of the Ukrainian special services blew up
 a military commander, may be members of a banned 
organization from the North Caucasus. They 
provided the performer with housing in 
the Moscow region, removing it 
on their documents.
 
Two natives of Ingushetia, who were engaged in small business 
in the capital, were detained in Siberia. They have not yet been
charged with terrorism, and now both are under administrative 
arrest for fifteen days for disobeying the police and disorderly 
conduct. In a few days, the deadline ends...  and the alleged
attackers, will be sent to Moscow - where they will be dealt 
with by investigators of the main investigative department 
of the TFR & FSB officers involved in operational support 
of the investigation of a criminal case -- of murder, the
manufacture of an explosive device and a terrorist 
attack (Articles 105, 223.1 and 205 of the 
Criminal Code).
 
A high-profile crime, we recall, was
committed on December 17.
 
A citizen of Uzbekistan, Akhmad Kurbanov (also named Akhmadjon
 Kurbonov according to the documents), acting on the instructions 
of the SBU, left an electric scooter with a radio-controlled bomb 
attached to the steering wheel at the entrance of the house 
where General Kirillov lived. 
 
When the military commander and his assistant Major Ilya 
Polikarpov, who was accompanying him, passed by the 
scooter on their way to the official car, Kurbanov, who 
was watching them from the interior of a rented car, 
pressed a button --- detonating the explosive device.
 Both soldiers were killed on the spot. Abandoning
 the car, the Uzbek disappeared.
 
He was detained less than a day later in a rented apartment in
 the town of Elektrougli near Moscow. The defendant said that
 he was recruited by the SBU, and blew up the general hoping
 to get $100 thousand and a residence permit in one of the 
EU countries.
 
In addition to numerous fingerprints and DNA traces left by him
in the car abandoned at the scene of the terrorist attack... the 
evidence of the defendant's guilt ---- was a video camera that 
broadcast the crime to Ukraine in online mode. According to 
Kurbanov, this was one of the conditions of the organizers
 of the crime.
 
It also turned out that during the surveillance of the general and
 his house, the terrorist lived in a nearby hostel. After the crime, 
he needed new housing, where he could sit out unnoticed by 
others, at least without registration, and then leave Russia.
 
According to the operational services, shortly before the attack, 
one of the alleged accomplices, who had previously served 
time for robbery, received a call from a friend who lived 
abroad. He asked him to provide inconspicuous 
"Asian" housing. He... did not look for an 
apartment himself, asking his fellow 
countryman from Ingushetia to do
 it. He presented several options,
 including a daily apartment in
 Elektrougly, for which, the 
money was transferred.
 
They handed the keys to Kurbanov, after meeting him in one of 
the shopping centres. After learning about the terrorist attack, 
the victim of which was the chief of the RCBZ troops, the 
alleged accomplices went on the run, but the security 
forces quickly identified them.
 
According to operatives, the accomplices belong to the 
militant wing of the group (virda) of followers of the 
Batal-Haji Belkharoev religious movement, which 
is recognized as a terrorist organisation by a 
military court and banned in Russia.
 
It also included their fellow countrymen Dzhabrail Aushev and 
Huseyn Medov, who were arrested, as Kommersant reported,
 on charges of helping terrorists who attacked visitors to the 
Crocus City Hall in March last year. 
 
Then -- 145 people became victims of immigrants from Tajikistan 
Dalerjon Mirzoev, Saidakram Rachabalizoda, Shamsidin Fariduni 
and Muhammadsobir Fayzov, who were provided with machine 
guns and ammunition by their accomplices, and more than 
500 were injured, injured and burned. The concert hall 
itself was destroyed by fire, and will not be restored.
 
In the case of the terrorist attack in the Moscow region, the 
Basmanny district Court arrested two dozen defendants, 
most of whom were accomplices -- who provided the 
perpetrators not only with weapons, but also with 
transport, money and housing. Given this, those 
who rented an apartment for the bomber 
Kurbanov will also, obviously, be 
poisoned..... in the Lefortovo 
pre-trial detention centre.
 
 
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The Rada deputy declared 
he was tortured -- by SBU
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the 
Operational Information Dept)
January 13th, 6:37pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Artyom Dmytruk, a member of the Verkhovna Rada Ukraine, 
said that at the beginning of a special military operation 
(SVO), he was tortured by employees of the Security 
Service of Ukraine (SBU). This is reported by the 
Ukrainian publication Country.na, in Telegram.
 
According to the politician, he and two assistants were abducted 
by a group of armed men on the street. Dmytruk noted that they 
tied him up and started beating him. As the deputy pointed 
out, he was taken to the basement.
 
"I was thrown on the wet and cold floor. Somewhere nearby I 
heard the screams of my friends, a little further - the moans 
of other people and the terrible sounds of torture," 
added Dmytruk.
 
Earlier, the MP published a video of a military mobilization 
in Chernivtsi, after which, allegedly, the man against 
whom force was used, died.
 
 
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The White House announced - the 
inevitability of Kiev's decision to 
reduce the age of mobilization
January 13th, 4:09pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Ukraine will have to make a decision on lowering the age 
of conscription to 18, US National Security Adviser 
Jake Sullivan said on January 13.
 
"Ultimately, this is a sovereign decision that Ukraine will have 
to make. However we were very clear, including in the public 
field ----- that manpower is a subject of acute concern and 
Ukraine needs to solve this," he said, in an interview 
with Bloomberg, which is published on the You
Tube channel.
 
According to Sullivan, the outgoing White House administration 
informed the team of US President-elect Donald Trump about 
the growing problem of the shortage of manpower in the 
Ukrainian army.
 
Yesterday evening, the future assistant to Trump on national 
security, Michael Waltz, said - that the Republican team 
insists on lowering the age of mobilization in Ukraine 
to 18 years. According to him, we are talking about
stabilizing the line of contact for the sake of 
concluding a deal.
 
Before that, on January 3, the Russian Foreign Intelligence 
Service reported that the White House had already 
demanded that Ukrainian President Vladimir 
Zelensky (the term of office - expired on 
May 20, 2024) urgently lower the age 
of mobilization to 18 years ---- and 
Kiev is preparing to make such 
a decision in the near future.
 
Back in December 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin 
pointed out the futility of lowering the age of mobilization
 in Ukraine. The possibility of such a measure, will be 
another crime of the Kiev regime, the Russian 
leader stressed.
 
Martial law has been in effect in Ukraine, since February 2022. At 
the same time, Zelensky signed a decree on general mobilization, 
which was repeatedly extended. Most men, between the ages of 
18 and 60, are prohibited from leaving the country. In April 2024,
the head of the regime approved a law on tougher mobilization.

 
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Russian troops - hit Ukrainian Armed
Forces' manpower in Kharkiv region
January 13th, 2:42pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces, have hit concentrations of Ukrainian 
militants' manpower in the Kharkiv region with combat drones.
This was reported on January 13, in the Ministry of Defense
 of the Russian Federation.
 
The positions were discovered in the forest by soldiers of the 
group of troops "North" during aerial reconnaissance. Then
 the drone operators hit the enemy's manpower with 
precise hits of ammunition.
 
The moment of impact was recorded in real 
time, by means of objective monitoring.
 
The day before, it was reported that the Russian military destroyed 
the Starlink satellite communication terminal of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine.. in the Kharkiv region. Military equipment was 
also located in a wooded area and was hit by a drop 
of ammunition from a drone.
 
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which Russian 
President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24th, 2022, 
continues. The decision was made against the background 
of the worsening situation in the region.


 
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The Russian Defence Ministry reports
on
 repelling AFU attempt to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region 
January 13th, 1:25pm
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue 
the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which 
broke into the territory of Kursk region. 
 
Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations 
of one tank brigade, four mechanised brigades, three air assault
 brigades, 1 marine brigade, and 2 territorial defence brigades 
of the AFU near Viktorovka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Kositsa, 
Kubatkin, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, 
Makhnovka, Nikolayevka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, 
Novaya Sorochina, Pogrebki, Sverdlikovo, &
 Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. Five enemy 
counter-attacks were repelled.
 
Operational-Tactical & Army aviation and artillery inflicted losses
 on the manpower and hardware of the enemy near Bondarevka, 
Dmitryukov, Kruglenkoye, Pervy Knyazhy, Martynovka, Melovoy, 
Mikhaylovka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Yuzhny as well as 
Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, Obody, 
and Yunakovka, in Sumy region. 
 
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 230
 troops, three tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle, six armoured 
fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, four self-propelled 
artillery systems, two mortars, one electronic warfare 
station, and one counter-battery radar.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses 
amounted to more than 51,430 troops, 300 tanks, 229 infantry 
fighting vehicles, 166 armoured personnel carriers, 1,539 
armoured fighting vehicles, 1,456 motor vehicles, 358 
artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of 
HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 
anti-aircraft missile launchers, eight transport
-loading vehicles, 93 EW stations, 14 counter-
battery warfare radars, 4 air defence radars, 
30 units of engineering and other materiel, 
including 15 counterobstacle vehicles, 1 
UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, 8 armoured 
recovery vehicles, and one command 
post vehicle. 
 
The operation to neutralise the AFU units
 is in progress.
 
 
 
________________________________
 
 
 
 
Russian Defence Ministry reports
 on the progress of the special 
military operation 
January 13th, 12:25pm
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
continue the special military operation.
 
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces 
inflicted losses on formations of one motorised infantry 
brigade of the AFU and one territorial defence brigade
 near Liptsy and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 35 troops, one armoured 
fighting vehicle, two motor vehicles, five field artillery
 guns, including a U.S.-made Paladin self-propelled
 artillery system.
 
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation 
along the front line and inflicted losses on manpower and hard
ware of one tank brigade, three mechanised brigades, one 
assault brigade, one airmobile brigade of the AFU, and 2 
territorial defence brigades near Dvurechnaya, 
Zapadnoye, Boguslavka, Olgovka (Kharkov
region), Novomikhaylovka, and Torskoye
 (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 515 troops, four infantry 
fighting vehicles, 14 motor vehicles, and 12 artillery guns, 
including one UK-made 155-mm Braveheart self-propelled
 artillery system. One ammunition depot was wiped out.
 
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines 
and positions and inflicted losses on formations of three 
mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, 
one assault brigade, and one air assault brigade of 
the AFU ...near Kramatorsk, Dachnoye, 
Kurdyumovka, Novomarkovo, Chasov
Yar, Belaya Gora, & Konstantinovka 
(Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 285 troops, five armoured 
fighting vehicles, 14 motor vehicles, two artillery guns, 
and one ammunition depot.
 
As a result of decisive actions ------ units of the 
Tsentr Group of Forces liberated Peschanoye 
(Donetsk People's Republic).
 
Losses were inflicted on the manpower and hardware of 8 
mechanised brigades and 2 national guard brigades near 
Dzerzhinsk, Shcherbinovka, Dimitrov, Vozdvizhenka, 
Lysovka, Novovasilevka, Petropavlovka, and 
Novoyelizavetovka (Donetsk 
People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses -- amounted to more than 615 troops, seven 
armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made M113 
armoured personnel carrier, one French-made VAB 
armoured personnel carrier, and one U.S.-made 
MaxxPro armoured fighting vehicle. Nine field 
artillery guns, including a UK-made 155-mm
Braveheart self-propelled artillery system 
and a U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer, 
were destroyed.
 
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing to
the depth of the enemy's defences and inflicted losses on 
formations of four mechanised brigades of the AFU and 
three territorial defence brigades near Konstantinopol, 
Velikaya Novoselka, Neskuchnoye, and Bogatyr 
(Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 210 troops, one tank, one U.S.-
made HMMWV armoured fighting vehicle, five motor vehicles, and 
one UK-made 155-mm Braveheart self-propelled artillery system.
 
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower 
and hardware of one mechanised brigade, one infantry brigade
, and two coastal defence brigades of the AFU near 
Pridneprovskoye, Antonovka (Kherson region), 
Malaya Tokmachka, and Malye Shcherbaki 
(Zaporozhye region).
 
The AFU losses - amounted to up to 80 troops, one armoured 
fighting vehicle, four motor vehicles, four field artillery guns, 
including one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer. Two 
electronic warfare stations and one ammunition 
depot were wiped out.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, 
& Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces 
struck infrastructure of military airfields, as well as engaged 
manpower and hardware of the enemy --- in 157 areas.
 
Air defence units shot down two French-made Hammer guided 
aviation bombs, six U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, and 
83 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 40,215 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,512 tanks and other armoured 
fighting vehicles, 1,508 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,545 field 
artillery guns and mortars, and 30,218 units of support 
military vehicles --- have been neutralised.
 
 
 
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Pushilin: the DPR's western border 
is less than 7 kilometres away
January 13th, 6:48am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian military still has about seven kilometres to go 
to the western border of the Donetsk People's Republic,
 the head of the region Denis Pushilin said on the air 
of Rossiya 24.
 
At the same time, he noted that the 
front line --- is constantly changing.
 
"To the western border, namely, to the border with the 
Dnipropetrovsk region, according to the latest data, 
there are about seven kilometres left. But this 
figure is approximate, because the front line
is changing ...and it is located outside of 
populated areas, but nevertheless, our 
units continue to advance," the head 
of the DPR said.
 
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry showed footage 
of the hoisting of the Russian flag in the village of 
Shevchenko, liberated on January the 11th.
 
Earlier, on January 6, the Russian Defense Ministry 
announced the capture of Kurakhov, after which
..the front line moved 40 km away from Donetsk 
for the first time since the beginning of the SVO.
 
 
 
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The crew of a tank --- of the Russian 
Armed Forces made a diversionary 
maneuver during the battle for the 
AFU stronghold
January 11th, 10:30pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The crew of a Russian tank in the area of a special military 
operation (SVO) performed a combat mission to make a 
passage in mine-explosive barriers equipped by the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine... on the approaches 
to the stronghold. 
 
The tank's crew consisted of gunner-operator lance-corporal 
Evgeny Zakharov and senior driver-mechanic lance-Corporal 
Mikhail Kanashin. The Ukrainian Armed Forces noticed the 
approach of Russian vehicles and focused their fire on the
 tank. Kanashin began to maneuver to get out of the 
enemy fire. At the same time, the tank was 
attacked by Ukrainian FPV drones.
 
The Ukrainian soldiers were fully focused on countering the 
Russian tank and did not notice how a group of Russian 
attack aircraft was approaching them from the flank at 
that time. The Russian Armed Forces unexpectedly 
attacked an enemy stronghold, taking advantage 
of the surprise effect, and the enemy did not 
have time to redistribute forces. 
 
Russian attack aircraft were able to break through 
the defense and penetrated the AFU stronghold, 
eliminating the enemy's manpower.
 
The diversionary maneuver of Zakharov and Kanashin, 
was crowned with success, the Russian Armed Forces 
were able to occupy a strategically important 
stronghold, and the passage laid in enemy 
mine-explosive barriers ensured the 
timely delivery... of the necessary
food & shells to the destination.
 
 
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In the West, they were concerned about 
Russia's progress due to the situation 
in Odessa
January 11th, 6:09pm
Margarita Pimenova 
(Night Line Editor)
(Lenta.ru)
 
A partisan movement in the Odessa region may open 
the way for Russian troops to enter the region 
...according to a former employee of the 
Strategic Intelligence Service, retired 
Colonel of the Swiss General Staff 
Jacques Bode. 
 
He explained the reasons for his concern in an interview 
with the YouTube channel Daniel Davis / Deep Dive.
 
"We know that there is a very strong partisan movement in 
Odessa... If there is an uprising in the Odessa region -- it 
would open the way for Russians to enter the southern 
part of the region," he said.
 
According to the expert, the Russian Federation is not going 
to destroy Odessa, and local partisans could support the 
offensive of the Russian military and contribute to the 
liberation of the city from the Ukrainian authorities.
 
Earlier, retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson admitted 
that the Russian army, if desired, could reach Odessa and 
...take control of the city. He also expressed the opinion 
that Russian troops will be able to reach the Dnieper 
and cross it.
 
 
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Zelensky showed a "captured 
North Korean soldier" with a 
military ticket from Tuva
by Alisa Dmitrieva (Editor of
 the Iz Zhizn department)
January 11th, 3:50pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky showed a 
"captured North Korean soldier" ...with a military 
ticket from Tuva. The Ukrainian leader posted 
photos of the prisoner and the document 
on his Telegram channel.
 
"Our fighters captured North Korean soldiers in the Kursk
 region. These are two soldiers who, although they were 
wounded, survived, were taken to Kiev, and are 
communicating with SBU investigators," 
Zelensky said.
 
At the same time, the published picture of one of the 
military tickets shows - that it was issued in Tuva in 
the name: Aranchyn Antonin Ayasovich. According 
to Tsargrad, the man was born in Turan, Tuva, in 
1998. The TV channel points out, that the 
document can be considered direct 
proof that "the prisoner is not a 
fighter of the DPRK."
 
 
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RT correspondent: about four thousand 
residents of Kurakhovo were waiting 
for the arrival of the Russian army
January 11th, 7:09pm
(RT.ru)
 
RT correspondent Murad Gazdiev became the first 
journalist of an international channel to get to 
Kurakhovo in the DPR ---- a city that was 
recently liberated by the Russian army.
 
Gazdiev, in particular, visited the Kurakhovo centre.
 
"Oddly enough --- the city was practically not affected, 
despite the fighting that took place here for a month.
 We are the first film crew that managed to get here. 
The most dangerous part is the road to the city, 
going through flat terrain and fields," the 
correspondent says.
 
Of the 18,000 people who lived in the city before the 
conflict began, almost a quarter — about 4,000 — 
decided to stay here, while waiting for Russian 
troops, hiding in basements and apartments, 
Gazdiev said.
 
"And they were very lucky that the [line of] defense of the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces collapsed. The Russian military 
personnel we spoke with, said that the city was 
completely unprepared for layered defense — 
there were simply no defensive positions 
here. Apparently - the APU is seriously 
depleted. The battle that they fought 
here was not like those that were 
before - in Mariupol, Bakhmut, 
Marinka, Soledar and many 
other cities -- that were 
eventually destroyed," 
the journalist says.
 
On January 6, the Russian army finally liberated the city
of Kurakhovo. This is the largest settlement in the 
south-western part of the Donbass.
 
The head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, noted that 
Kurakhovo is a fortified area -- comparable in
importance, to Avdiivka and Ugledar.
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt..... to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 11th, 2pm
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue 
the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which 
broke into the territory of Kursk region.
 
Units of the Sever Group of Forces engaged formations 
of one tank brigade, two mechanised brigades, two air 
assault brigades, and two territorial defence brigades 
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Viktorovka, 
Kositsa, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, 
Nikolayevka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novaya 
Sorochina, Pogrebki. Nine enemy 
counter-attacks were repelled.
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, artillery inflicted 
losses on enemy manpower and hardware ------- close to 
Bogdanovka, Bondarevka, Viktorovka, Goncharovka, & 
Guyevo, Zaoleshinka, Kazachya Loknya, Kruglenkoye, 
Kubatkin, Lebedevka, Loknya, Martynovka, Melovoy,
Makhnovka,  Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Oleshnya,
Rubanshchina, Sverdlikovo, Staraya Sorochina, and 
Sudzha, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, Yuzhny, as 
well as Basovka, Belovody, Zhuravka, Obody, 
and Yunakovka - in Sumy region.
 
 During the day, the enemy losses were up to 240 troops, 
one infantry fighting vehicle, one armoured personnel 
carrier, two armoured fighting vehicles, five motor 
vehicles, one artillery gun, four mortars, and one 
electronic warfare station.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU 
losses amounted to more than 50,840 troops, 296 tanks, 
224 infantry fighting vehicles, 161 armoured personnel 
carriers, 1,521 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,445 motor
vehicles, 353 artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers,
including 13 of HIMARS, and six of MLRS made 
by the US, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, 
eight transport-loading vehicles, 91 EW 
stations, 13 counter-battery warfare 
radars, four air defence radars, 29 
units of engineering and other 
materiel, including 15 counter
obstacle vehicles, one UR-77 
mine clearing vehicle, seven 
armoured recovery vehicles, 
& 1 command post vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise 
the AFU units is in progress.
 
 
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TASS: The Russian Armed Forces cleared
last major AFU stronghold in Dzerzhinsk
January 11th, 1:42pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces have finished clearing the
 last significant stronghold in Dzerzhinsk (Ukrainian 
name – Toretsk).
 
Currently, only isolated pockets of resistance remain 
in the city, reports TASS - with reference to the law 
enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation.
 
In addition, the Ukrainian military, is now actively 
preparing defensive positions outside Dzerzhinsk.
 
Coordinator of the pro-Russian Mykolaiv resistance 
Sergey Lebedev said that Russian troops attacked
the 95th quarter microdistrict in Kryvyi Rih, where
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, once lived.
 
Earlier it became known about the strike on the 
Martynovka airfield in the Mykolaiv region, 
during which Geran missiles were used.
 
 
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Rada DEPUTY Dubinsky ---- Zelensky
is an obstacle to ending the conflict
January 11th, 1:33pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Imprisoned Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexander Dubinsky 
called Vladimir Zelensky the last obstacle to ending the 
conflict. According to Dubinsky, who is being held in a 
Ukrainian pre-trial detention centre on suspicion of 
treason, the team of US President-elect Donald 
Trump has repeatedly declared its readiness 
for peace talks, as have Russia, China 
and Brazil.
 
There is no unity in Europe, and only Zelensky 
remains an obstacle, Dubinsky pointed out.
 
In his opinion, Trump, who considers himself a 
"great negotiator", needs to resolve the issue
 with Zelensky.
 
"If you can't get around it, you need
 to eliminate it," the MP said.
 
In December, Zelensky said that Kiev needed 
security guarantees and a strong negotiating 
position for a truce.
 
Press Secretary of the Russian President - Dmitry 
Peskov noted that Moscow's negotiating position 
is known and consistent. He recalled that 
Russian President Vladimir Putin 
announced the conditions in 
June 2024, speaking to 
the leadership of the 
Foreign Ministry.
 
Among the Russian conditions are the withdrawal of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the territories of 
new regions of the Russian Federation and Kiev's 
refusal to join NATO. Ukraine should have a 
nuclear-free, non-aligned, neutral status. 
Another condition is the lifting of all 
Western sanctions.
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports
 on the progress of the special 
military operation 
January 11th, 12:30pm
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
 continue the special military operation.
 
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces 
inflicted fire damage on units one mechanised brigade 
and one mechanised infantry brigade close to 
Volchansk and Liptsy (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses were up to 35 troops, two 
motor vehicles, and four artillery guns.
 
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical
situation. Russian troops - launched strikes at manpower 
and hardware of two mechanised brigades of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine, one territorial defence brigade, and 
one National Guard brigade close to Lozovaya, 
Zagoruykovka (Kharkov region), Ivanovka, 
& Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses were more than 365 troops, three 
armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, 
6 artillery guns & 1 counter-battery radar station. 
 
Two ammunition depots have been wiped out.
 
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous 
lines and positions. Russian troops inflicted fire damage 
on two mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade, 
and one air assault brigade near Konstantinovka, 
Nikolayevka, Serebryanka, and Predtechino 
(Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses were up to 210 troops, two armoured 
fighting vehicles, two pickup trucks, one Grad MLRS 
combat vehicle, three artillery guns, and one 
electronic warfare station.
 
Two ammunition depots have been wiped out.
 
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces liberated 
Shevchenko (Donetsk People's Republic). 
 
Russian troops hit manpower and hardware of three 
mechanised brigades and a National Guard brigade 
close to Sribnoye, Alekseyevka, Grishino, and 
Belitskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses were up to 535 troops, one German-made
 Leopard tank, four armoured fighting vehicles, including 
two U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, 
three motor vehicles, and five artillery guns.
 
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued 
advancing to the depth of the AFU defences. 
 
Russian troops inflicted fire damage on formations of one 
mechanised brigade, one tank brigade of the AFU, and 
one National Guard brigade near Velikaya Novosyolka,
 Burlatskoye, and Volnoye Pole (Donetsk 
People's Republic).
 
The AFU losses were up to 185 troops, one tank, two 
armoured fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, 
and four artillery guns. 
 
One ammunition depot was wiped out.
 
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and
 hardware of two mechanised brigades and one infantry 
brigade close to Blakitnoye, Primorskoye, and 
Novoyakovlevka (Zaporozhye region).
 
The AFU losses were up to 70 troops, 
4 motor vehicles and 5 artillery guns.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial 
vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the 
Russian Groups of Forces delivered strikes at 
infrastructure of military airfields, power 
objects ensuring operation of the 
Ukrainian defence industry as 
well as engaged clusters 
of manpower & military 
hardware in 146 areas.
 
Air defence facilities shot down five U.S.-
made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 
181 fixed-wing U.S.-made UAVs.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 40,077 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 
anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,480 tanks and other armoured 
fighting vehicles, 1,508 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,412 field
 artillery guns and mortars, and 30,156 units of support 
military vehicles have been neutralised.
 
 
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APU soldiers near Kurakhovo ate 
coffee ..due to supply problems
January 11th, 2:28am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Ukrainian soldiers ate coffee at positions near Kurakhovo
 in the DPR due to lack of supplies, said a stormtrooper 
from the "Borz" detachment of the 110th motorized 
rifle brigade of the 51st army of the "Southern" 
group of troops with the call sign Manych.
 
The fighter explained that, when taking 
Ukrainian prisoners, it turned out that 
they had black teeth.
 
"I say, why are your teeth black? He says: "We ate coffee, 
we had no water, no food, nothing, no cigarettes, no 
communication, nothing at all," the Russian 
stormtrooper told RIA Novosti.
 
According to the soldier, a group of four people on the 
orders of the command of the Russian Armed Forces 
captured the enemy's network of trenches... 
consisting of four pillboxes and two bomb 
shelters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 
 
The Russian fighters were confronted by nine 
Ukrainian soldiers --- seven of whom, were 
eliminated, and two were taken prisoner.
 
On the eve of today - the Russian Defense Ministry 
reported that the Russian Armed Forces liberated
the settlements of Nadia, Kurakhovo and 
Dachenskoye in the zone of a special 
military operation.
 
 
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Marochko: almost 30 paratroopers of 
the Ukrainian Armed Forces were 
captured in Volchansk, 
Kharkiv region
January 11th, 1:15am
(RT.ru)
 
Soldiers of the 82nd separate Airborne Assault Brigade of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted to counterattack 
Russian units in Volchansk, Kharkiv region -- as a result 
of an unsuccessful counterattack almost 30 Ukrainian 
paratroopers were captured.
 
"According to my source -- our assault units completely 
defeated the enemy. Moreover, 29 people of the 82nd 
separate amphibious assault brigade of the armed 
formations of Ukraine were captured," military 
expert Andrey Marochko said, TASS reports.
 
Earlier it was reported that the Russian Armed Forces 
entered the outskirts of Yasenovoye in the west 
of the DPR.
 
In addition, Russian troops repelled four counterattacks 
of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk border area.
 
 
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Private Panarin confronted the APU 
as part of the head patrol 
in the SVO zone
January 10th, 10pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Private Oleksiy Panarin identified a sabotage group of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and confronted 
the enemy as part of the head patrol.
 
A group of Ukrainian soldiers set up a machine-gun point 
on the route of Russian units. Panarin, along with his 
fellow soldiers, entered the battle against superior 
enemy forces. During the battle, he decided to 
outflank the enemy, which allowed him to 
approach the machine-gun point 
unnoticed. Panarin..... took aim 
from an RPG-7 and eliminated 
the Ukrainian crew.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the competent 
actions of Lance Corporal Andrey Yerofeyev. He 
commanded a detachment tasked with 
eliminating several strongholds of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 
as well as their weapons 
and equipment. 
 
The detachment encountered superior enemy forces, 
and Yerofeyev ordered them to move to a safe 
position and first...... study the plan of the 
settlement in which they were located.
 
Having developed a plan, the group moved to one of the 
abandoned buildings, where it was convenient to fire 
at the enemy. The Ukrainian military, as Yerofeyev 
had hoped, soon approached the building. 
 
Russian attack aircraft opened fire. The enemy, once in 
an open area, suffered serious losses. As a result, the 
group under the command of Yerofeyev, together 
with the arrived reinforcements, forced the 
APU to retreat outside the village.
 
 
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Twins from Belgorod were killed 
in the Kherson region, rescuing 
wounded colleagues
January 10th, 6:21pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Two twin brothers from Belgorod died near the village 
of Krynki in the Kherson region, rescuing wounded 
colleagues. This is reported by RT, referring to 
the father of the brothers, Sergey Fetisenko.
 
He said that his sons went to the front, despite the 
existing reservation at work. First -- Dmitry went 
on a special operation. He was wounded - while
rescuing the commander. After being wounded
he returned home. When he left for service 
again, Denis decided to go with him.
 
"My sons said they couldn't wait at home until the 
Nazis came to Russia," recalls Sergey Fetisenko.
 
The twins served as drone operators. Dmitry's wedding 
was scheduled for December 27, 2023. The brothers 
were going on vacation, but it had to be postponed 
due to the difficult situation in the Kherson area.
 
Dmitry and Denis... died while performing another combat 
mission, covering the evacuation of wounded colleagues.
This happened on the night of December 29th, 2023.
 
The brothers were posthumously awarded Orders of Courage. 
Their colleagues hope that the twins will be given the title 
of Heroes of Russia. Their father, Sergey, is now 
delivering humanitarian aid to the SVO zone.
 
 
 
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Russian fighters --- knock out the enemy 
from positions in the vicinity of Sudzha
January 10th, 6:17pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
A fighter of the Russian Armed Forces, told the Rossiya 
TV channel that the Russian army is now knocking out 
the enemy from positions in the vicinity of the Kursk 
city of Sudzha, captured by the Ukrainian
 Armed Forces.
 
In the vicinity of Suja, it is becoming more difficult for 
the AFU fighters every day — for example, the point 
of their temporary deployment was destroyed by 
an FPV drone.
 
"Gradually, step by step, metre by metre, we are knocking 
out the enemy from our positions, securing our units. We 
try to go to his rear somewhere, so that it would be 
difficult for him to provide for his own people, and 
in general, so that he would feel bad," said the 
battalion commander with the call sign Fizik.
 
Earlier, military commander Vladimir Razin, called hasty, 
statements in Telegram channels about the beginning 
of battles for Sudzha in the Kursk border region. The 
nearest place where clashes are currently taking 
place - is the settlement of Makhnovka.
 
 
 
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Military commander Gavrish:
Russian troops ---- will soon 
liberate Cellars near Kursk
January 10th, 5pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Soon, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation will 
announce the liberation of the village of Pogrebki in the 
Kursk region. This was announced on the air of the 
program "60 minutes" on the TV channel "Russia"
 by military commander Alexey Gavrish.
 
The journalist noted that the initiative in the Kursk 
region is on the side of the Russian Armed Forces.
 
"Soon, most likely, the Ministry of Defense will announce
 the complete liberation of the village of Pogrebki --- 
because almost all of its territory was under our 
control as of this morning. Fighting continued 
only in the southern part of this settlement. 
So it's already evening. I think that there, 
too, everything is developing in our 
direction, because, if you look 
objectively ---- the initiative 
along the entire front line 
from our side continues," 
the military commander
said, firmly.
 
Gavrish noted that Russian artillery and aviation are actively 
working in the region. They block the enemy and prevent
 him from performing a rotation. However, the military 
commander stressed - that the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine still have forces left and with the 
onset of frost - they may try to 
attack again.
 
Alexey Gavrish also noted that the Russian 
Armed Forces are advancing further - and 
knocking out the enemy from our land.
 
 
 
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Military commander, Gavrish: we are 
moving and knocking out the enemy
from our land
January 10th, 4:48pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces continue to advance in the Kursk
 region, the DPR and LPR. This was announced on the air 
of the program "60 minutes" on the TV channel 
"Russia" by the military commander, 
Alexey Gavrish.
 
The journalist said that the fighting does not stop, despite the 
weather. However, nature has more influence on the enemy 
than on the Russian military.
 
"From our side, the advance is still going on every day, we are 
still liberating new settlements, we are still moving and 
knocking the enemy out of our land," Gavrish said.
 
He added that according to the Defense Ministry, only on January
 10 in the Kursk region, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed 280 
soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two tanks and 13 
armoured vehicles. In total, Kiev lost 50 thousand 
people in this direction.
 
"This figure is really colossal and it is not clear what the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine are trying to achieve, why they are doing it. 
There is only one thought left that this is some kind of 
political subtext that is beneficial only to Zelensky "
 the military commander shared.
 
The journalist noted that the main direction for Russian 
troops is the Sudzha – Lgov highway, since logistics 
chains play an important role.
 
Earlier, Zelensky said that 60 thousand military personnel 
will participate in the operation of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine in the Kursk region.
 
 
 
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A civilian, a self-defense fighter, and 
a driver are injured in a UAV attack
 in the Russian region
by Nikita Abramov (Editor 
of the "Russia" section)
January 10th, 4:15pm 
(Lenta.ru)
 
Three people were injured in an attack by drones of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belgorod region.
This was announced -- by the governor of the 
Russian border region Vyacheslav Gladkov
 in the Telegram channel.
 
"Near the village of Yasnye Zori, a kamikaze drone attacked
a moving car. Two men were wounded, one of them a self 
-defense fighter. One of the wounded, has a closed 
craniocerebral injury, the second has a shrapnel 
wound to the neck," the official wrote.
 
According to him, the victims are being
 taken to Hospital No. 2 in Belgorod.
 
In addition, another drone attacked a regular bus on the 
Nikolskoye — Yasnye Zori road section. The driver was 
injured, and diagnosed with a closed craniocerebral
injury and barotrauma. At the moment, he is being
 hospitalized, the head of the region added.
 
According to the Ministry of Defense, in total on the night of 
Friday, January 10, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 40 
drones at Russia. In addition to 16 drones intercepted 
in the Rostov Region, ten more were destroyed over 
the Sea of Azov, four each over the Kursk and 
Voronezh regions, two over the Krasnodar 
Territory, and one over Belgorod Region.


 
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces 
called the situation in one 
direction in the DPR 
''very difficult''
January 10th, 2:10pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The situation in the Dzerzhinsk direction in the Donetsk
 People's Republic remains extremely tense for the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
 
Bohdan Kushnir, deputy commander of the Safari assault regiment 
of the Lyut brigade of the Ukrainian National Police, noted that
 "the situation is very difficult," adding that Russian troops 
are exerting ''significant pressure'' on the positions
of 
the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
 
"Along the entire contact line, the main attention is focused on 
large cities. Toretsk is no exception. (The Russian Army – 
Editor's note) is pressing very hard," Kushnir said 
on the First TV channel.
 
According to information provided by Igor Kimakovsky, an
adviser 
to the head of the DPR, Russian forces have
almost completely cleared Dzerzhinsk (Ukrainian
Toretsk) of Ukrainian troops, 
leaving only small
pockets of resistance in the area of the 
Toretskaya mine.

Kushnir also stressed: the city is 
practically
destroyed to the ground ---- and that the 
main focus - is on large settlements.
 
Earlier, it was reported: that most of Dzerzhinsk 
is now occupied by the Russian Armed Forces.
 


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Rogov: Russia's Armed Forces -- have 
entered the outskirts of Yasenovoye
 in the west of the DPR
January 10th, 1:43pm
(RT.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces entered the outskirts of the 
village of Yasenovoye in the west of the DPR, and
fighting for its liberation has begun, Vladimir 
Rogov, co-chairman of the Coordination 
Council for the integration of new 
regions, told RIA Novosti.
 
"Our troops entered the outskirts of the village of Yasenovoye, 
which is located north-west of the already liberated city of 
Kurakhovo," he said.
 
According to him, Ukrainian troops continue to 
roll back.. to the western outskirts of the DPR.
 
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said that 
Russian troops liberated three settlements
 in the SVO zone, in a week.


 
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In the Kursk region, military signalmen 
are testing a new electronic warfare 
station and a drone
January 10th, 11:52am
(Vesti.ru)
 
An electronic warfare station assembled by volunteers and a 
unique Cheburator drone are developments being tested in 
the fields of the Kursk border region. In an exclusive 
interview with the TV channel "Russia 24" 
signalmen told about the new products.
 
The new electronic warfare station, is able to reliably protect units 
from drone attacks, and its effectiveness is checked by launching 
an intercepted Ukrainian drone. It is noteworthy that the station 
is a gift from volunteers. EW is waiting for additional tests, 
already when performing a combat mission.
 
"They gave us an experimental electronic warfare system to see 
how it will perform. If it performs well, they will put it into 
production and put them on the whole front," said
 the signalman with the call sign Horvat.
 
Another tested novelty is the new Cheburator drone, developed 
by Ossetian specialists. It can maintain altitude at the touch of 
a single button, offline escape from the effects of electronic 
warfare. The power reserve has become much larger, 
camera rotation, switching from day to night
 is done remotely, in one motion.
 
So far, there are only two such drones. Signalmen keep 
in touch with developers - share the test results - and 
expect serious deliveries.
 
 
 
________________________________________
 
 
 
Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt --- to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region 
January 10th, 11:45am
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue 
the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which 
broke into the territory of Kursk region.
 
Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations 
of one tank brigade, two mechanised brigades, two air assault 
brigades, and 2 territorial defence brigades of the AFU nearby
 Viktorovka, Zamostye, Kositsa, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya 
Loknya, Nikolayevka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novaya Sorochina, 
Pogrebki, and Russkoye Porechnoye. Four counter-attacks 
launched by AFU units were repelled.
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and artillery strikes 
engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Agronom, 
Bogdanovka, Bondarevka, Viktorovka, Goncharovka, 
Guyevo, Zazulevka, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Kubatkin, 
Kurilovka, Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, 
Makhnovka, Melovoy, Nikolayevo-Daryno, 
Nikolsky, Novenkoye..... Sverdlikovo, 
Sudzha, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye 
and Yuzhny as well as - Basovka, 
Belovody, Veselovka, Vodolagi,
Zhuravka, 
and Obody in the
Sumy region.
 
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU amounted to more than 280 
troops, two tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, three 
armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, five 
artillery guns, and two mortars. Three AFU 
servicemen surrendered.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region the AFU
losses amounted to up to 50,600 troops, 296 tanks, 222
infantry fighting vehicles, 161 armoured personnel
carriers, 1,520 armoured 
fighting vehicles, 1,441
motor vehicles, plus 353 artillery guns, 
44 MLRS
launchers --- including 13 of HIMARS and six of 
MLRS made by the US, 16 anti-aircraft missile 
launchers, eight transport-loading vehicles, 
90 EW stations, 13 counter-battery warfare 
radars, four air defence radars, 29 units of 
engineering and other materiel, including 
15 counter-obstacle vehicles, a UR-77 
mine clearing vehicle, 7 armoured 
recovery vehicles, and one 
command post vehicle.
 
The operation - to neutralise
the AFU units, is in progress.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation 
(from 4 to 10 January 2025)
January 10th, 10:40am
 
From 4 to 10 January 2025, the Russian Armed Forces delivered 
28 group strikes by precision weaponry and attack UAVs at the 
infrastructure of military airfields, weaponry depots, attack 
UAV workshops and depots as well as temporary 
deployment areas of Ukrainian armed forces 
and foreign mercenaries.
 
Over the past week, units of the Sever Group of Forces, 
continued to eliminate AFU formations on the territory
 of Kursk region.
 
Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and artillery inflicted losses on 
the manpower and hardware of one heavy mechanised brigade, a
 tank brigade, six mechanised brigades, four air assault brigades 
of the AFU, one marine brigade, and five territorial defence 
brigades. Two counter-attacks launched by AFU units 
were repelled.
 
In Kharkov direction, Russian troops inflicted losses on units 
of one mechanised brigade, one motorised infantry brigade 
of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades.
 
Over the past week in the area of responsibility of the Sever Group 
of Forces, the AFU losses amounted to more than 2,835 troops, 
30 tanks, and 122 armoured fighting vehicles. Moreover, 117 
motor vehicles, and 30 field artillery guns were destroyed.
 
As a result of active operations, units of the 
Zapad Group of Forces ---- liberated Nadiya. 
 
Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of four mechanised 
brigades of the AFU, 3 territorial defence brigades, and one national 
guard brigade. Nineteen AFU attempts to regain lost positions 
were thwarted.
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 3,530 troops, a tank, 28 armoured 
fighting vehicles ------ including one Polish-made Rosamak armoured 
personnel carrier, one U.S.-made Bradley armoured fighting vehicle, 
seven U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers --- and five 
U.S.-made HMMWV armoured vehicles. Russian units have  
eliminated 52 motor vehicles, 46 field artillery guns, 
11 of them manufactured by NATO countries, 
10 electronic warfare stations, and 
15 ammunition depots.
 
As a result of decisive actions - units of the
Yug Group of Forces - liberated Kurakhovo.
 
Losses were inflicted on formations of eight mechanised brigades, 
two motorised infantry brigades, one infantry brigade, 1 mountain 
assault brigade, two airmobile brigades of the AFU, and two 
territorial defence brigades. Sixteen enemy attempts to
 regain a tactical position, were thwarted.
 
Over the past week, the AFU losses in this direction amounted to up to 
1,715 troops, three tanks, including 1 German-made Leopard tank, 12 
armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M113 armoured 
personnel carriers, 17 motor vehicles, 20 field artillery guns, 
including 4 Western-made guns. Six ammunition depots 
were wiped out.
 
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing to the 
depth of the enemy's defences --- and liberated Dachenskoye.
 
Losses were inflicted on formations of seven mechanised brigades,
2 motorised infantry brigades, one jaeger brigade, two airmobile 
brigades of the AFU, one marine brigade, two territorial defence 
brigades, one national guard brigade, and one brigade of the 
National Police of Ukraine. 94 AFU attempts to regain lost 
positions, were thwarted.
 
The AFU losses amounted to over 3,485 troops, 11 tanks, including four 
German-made Leopard tanks, 40 armoured fighting vehicles, including 
three French-made VAB armoured personnel carriers as well as six 
U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, 1 U.S.-made M1117 
armoured personnel carriers, U.S.-made MaxxPro and HMMWV 
armoured vehicles. Moreover, 41 motor vehicles, and 34 field
 artillery guns, were destroyed.
 
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces improved the tactical situation 
along the front line and defeated units of 3 mechanised brigades, 
two air assault brigades of the AFU, 1 marine brigade, and three 
territorial defence brigades. Eight AFU attempts to regain lost 
positions, were foiled.
 
The AFU losses amounted to more than 1,120 troops, one tank, six 
armoured fighting vehicles, including three U.S.-made MaxxPro 
armoured vehicles, 30 motor vehicles, and 26 field artillery 
guns, including 8 guns manufactured by NATO countries. 
Six ammunition depots were destroyed.
 
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower 
and hardware of two mechanised brigades, 2 infantry brigades,
a coastal defence brigade of the AFU, two territorial defence 
brigades, and one national guard brigade.
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 685 troops, two armoured fighting 
vehicles, including one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier,
 44 motor vehicles, 11 field artillery guns, five electronic warfare 
stations, and six ammunition depots.
 
Over the past week, 91 Ukrainian servicemen 
surrendered on the line of contact.
 
Fighter aviation of thre Russian Aerospace Forces shot
 down one MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force.
 
Russian air defence systems have shot down eight U.S.-made 
ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, five French-made 
Hammer aerial bombs, 41 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS 
projectiles, as well as 689 fixed-wing unmanned 
aerial vehicles.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 39,896 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590
 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,467 tanks & other armoured 
fighting vehicles, 1,507 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,385 field 
artillery guns and mortars, and 30,135 units of support 
military vehicles, have been neutralised.
 
 
 
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Calculations of howitzers 2S1 "Carnation" 
disrupted the supply of ammunition to
 the Armed Forces of Ukraine in
the 
Kursk border area
January 10th, 2:04am
(RT.ru)
 
Calculations of self-propelled howitzers "Gvozdika" of 
the motorized rifle brigade of the group of forces 
"North" disrupted the supply of ammunition to 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the border 
area of the Kursk region, taking under 
fire control the main supply routes 
of the enemy.
 
This was reported in the Russian Defense Ministry.
 
In addition.... according to the ministry, the Russian 
military destroyed infantry, military equipment and 
artillery pieces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 
"After advancing to the positions and receiving updated 
coordinates of the enemy's location - the gunners fired
 shots and accurately hit all targets," the ministry said.
 
Over the past day, the Russian Armed Forces defeated 
seven brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the 
Kursk region.
 
In addition, the Russian Armed Forces hit 
the assembly shops and storage sites 
of the APU's drones.
 
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Junior Sergeant Budazhapov led the car out
 of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' shelling
in 
the free zone
January 9th, 9pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Junior Sergeant Bimba Budazhapov was carrying out the
 task of delivering material and technical equipment to 
Russian servicemen and escaped from the artillery 
fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
 
Budazhapov was heading to his destination near the 
contact line when his car was attacked by enemy 
FPV drones and artillery. The junior sergeant's 
truck contained ammunition.... that could 
detonate if it was hit by an enemy shell. 
 
Budazhapov turned off the car's headlights and began 
maneuvering to get out of the fire. The darkness of 
the night allowed him to take the vehicle out of 
the danger zone and deliver the ammunition 
to its destination - in time.
 
Junior Sergeant Bimba Budazhapov was presented with 
the medal "For Strengthening the Combat Community"
 for heroism, personal courage, bravery and 
selflessness shown in the performance 
of military duty during a special 
military operation.
 
The Ministry also noted the courage and dedication of 
the commander of the BARS-32 mortar and howitzer 
battery, Sergey Alexandrov. He directed the gun 
while providing fire support to the detachment 
during the battle -- when the enemy broke 
through to the mortar crew under the 
command of Alexandrov and tried 
to eliminate the guns. 
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces ----- attacked 
the battery with artillery and FPV drones.
 
Alexandrov led the defense - and managed to inflict 
significant damage to the enemy. During the battle, 
the commander's comrade was wounded ----- and 
Alexandrov provided first aid to the serviceman.
 
 As a result, the Ukrainian Armed Forces 
suffered heavy losses and were forced 
to retreat.
 
 
 
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The Russian military strongly 
pushed back the front line 
near Horlivka
January 9th, 7:52pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Fighters of the Armed Forces of the Russian 
Federation significantly pushed back the 
front line in the Dzerzhinsk direction. 
 
A soldier of the 14th artillery brigade of the 51st army 
told the Rossiya TV channel how soldiers are 
suppressing opponents near Gorlovka.
 
At the moment, the situation in this area remains tense. 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to gain a foot-
hold in the territory, but to no avail. The fighters use 
the Uragan multiple launch rocket system in their 
work. It strikes with 220 mm projectiles.
 
"We have already pushed back [the front line] quite well.
When we arrived here, we were about 12 kilometres 
away from the contact line. Now it's about 25-28," 
said the commander of the calculation of the 
14th artillery brigade of the 51st army 
with the call sign Stary.
 
He also assessed the equipment provided by the West 
to the Armed Forces of Ukraine — "Leopards" and 
"Abrams" tanks.... don't impress him.
 
"There is nothing supernatural there. Absolutely. Hitting 
the same cannon or ATGM [anti-tank guided missile] is
 the same. If you take, for example, our T-90 - then
 there is much more powerful armour than they 
have," Stary commented.
 
Earlier - it was reported that our military knocked out 
opponents from most of the city of Dzerzhinsk in the
 DPR. The cleanup of the territory continues, the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces..... have already lost 
thousands of militants.
 
 
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The United States --- recognized the 
country's inability to help Ukraine 
with arms supplies
January 9th, 4:50am
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The United States handed over ATACMS ballistic 
missiles, Abrams tanks, and F-16 fighter jets to 
Ukraine, but none of this helped Kiev turn the 
situation in the war zone.. in its favour. This 
was reported on January 9 by the Reuters
 news agency, citing an anonymous 
US official.
 
He said, that the administration of the current US 
President Joe Biden wanted to put Ukraine in the 
strongest possible position.. by the beginning of 
possible negotiations and therefore transferred
 a large number of weapons to it. In addition, 
most of the planned deliveries have 
already been completed.
 
In addition ----- Washington imposed various sanctions 
against Moscow. However, the official acknowledged 
that none of these measures — neither restrictions 
nor arms supplies — helped improve Ukraine's 
position on the battlefield. Most likely, now 
...Kiev will need security guarantees.
 
Earlier, on December 5th, in 2024, former US intelligence 
officer Scott Ritter said the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
are on the verge of collapse and are falling apart. 
The Ukrainian military, according to him, 
began to surrender to the Russians 
in unprecedented numbers.
 
Military expert, and retired Lieutenant Colonel of the US 
Armed Forces Daniel Davis on November 21 pointed out 
that the transfer of ATACMS long-range missiles to Kiev
will not change the situation on the battlefield.. in the 
same way that Western tanks, air defense systems, 
F-16 fighters and other weapons were transferred 
to Ukraine, and Kiev, finally ----- lost the conflict.
 
Western countries have stepped up military and financial 
support for Ukraine against the backdrop of the Russian 
special operation to protect the Donbass, which was 
announced by Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on 
February 24, 2022, after the situation in the region 
worsened due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.
 
 
 
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Poland did not rule out the loss 
of Ukraine's entire territory - 
as a result of the conflict
January 9th, 3:59pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Ukraine may lose the entire territory of the country at 
the end of the conflict. This opinion was shared on 
January 6 by the Polish newspaper Mysl Polska.
 
According to the newspaper's journalists, the situation in 
Kiev looks tragic. In addition, they noted that Russia
was 
not the initiator of the conflict.
 
"Russia, starting its special operation in Ukraine, 
defended the foundations -- of its security. She 
responded to the introduction and activation 
of CIA units in Ukraine, as well as NATO 
soldiers training the Ukrainian army," 
the publication says.
 
Earlier, on January the 8th, the US Defense Department
spokesman, Lloyd Austin.... said that Russian President
Vladimir Putin does not plan to give up in the Ukrainian
conflict. He also noted that in this regard, Washington
is focused -------- on allocating the necessary funds to 
Ukraine.. for conducting military operations.
 
On the eve of January the 7th, the National Interest 
magazine reported that Russia will win in Ukraine 
thanks to the innovative technologies that the 
Russian military uses when performing 
combat missions. 
 
For example, Russian "brazier tanks", which, by repelling
 drone attacks, distract the attention of Ukrainian troops 
from other advancing forces, allowing less armoured 
Russian vehicles to move forward in relative safety.
 
Before that, on December 16th, 2024, Putin said, that the 
past year -- was a landmark in achieving the goals of the 
special operation. He also added that the Russian troops 
have a strong strategic initiative along the entire line of 
contact, thanks to the professionalism and courage of 
the Russian Armed Forces.
 
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which 
Putin announced on February 24th, 2022, continues. 
The decision was made --- against the background 
of the worsening situation in the region.
 


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Head of the Tor air defense system crew Lev: 
the greatest danger is posed by shock UAVs
January 9th, 3:36pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
For the Tor-M1 air defense system, the greatest danger is
 posed by attack drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 
 
This was reported to the Rossiya TV channel by 
the head of the launcher with the call sign Lev.
 
The military man said that attack drones fly low, 
which is why they are very dangerous.
 
"The greatest danger for the calculation is represented 
by attack drones. They fly very low. It happens that 
they appear close. <...> So we try to take care of
 the car, take care of ourselves and the people
 around us," Lev said.
 
He said that there were no flights specifically for his car, 
but HIMARS were falling nearby. However, Thor has 
always managed to evade attacks thanks to an 
established system of relationships.
 
"The fear was, it is, but it is a little dulled... because we 
have been here for a long time. Now we are used to it,
 it has become easier," the soldier admitted.
 
Lev also said that in the New Year, 
his team --- had to work hard.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt ....to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region 
January 9th, 2pm
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue 
the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which 
broke into the territory of Kursk region.
 
Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses 
on formations of one tank brigade, 2 mechanised 
brigades, 2 air assault brigades, and 2 territorial 
defence brigades of the AFU near Aleksandriya, 
Viktorovka, Daryino, Zazulevka, Kazachya
Loknya, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Leonidovo, 
Malaya Loknya, Nikolayevo-Daryino, 
Nikolayevka, Novaya Sorochina, 
Sverdlikovo, and Cherkasskoye 
Porechnoye.
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery 
inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the
enemy by Bondarevka, Veselovka, Goncharovka,
Guyevo, Kruglenkoye, Kubatkin, Loknya, 
Martynovka, Mirny, Nikolsky, Pogrebki, 
Russkoye Porechnoye, Yuzhny as well
 as Basovka, Belovody, Bogdanovka, 
Vodolagi, Zhuravka, and Miropolye
in Sumy region.
 
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses were up to 190 
troops, one infantry fighting vehicle, one armoured 
personnel carrier, 2 armoured fighting vehicles, 5
motor vehicles, one artillery gun, four mortars, 
one electronic warfare station, and 
one ammunition depot.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the 
AFU losses amounted to more than 50,310 troops, 
294 tanks, 218 infantry fighting vehicles... 161 
armoured personnel carriers, 1,517 armoured 
fighting vehicles... 1,435 motor vehicles, 348 
artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 
13 of HIMARS, and six of MLRS made by the
 USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers... 8 
transport-loading vehicles, 90 EW stations, 
13 counter-battery warfare radars... 4 air 
defence radars, 29 units of engineering 
and other materiel, including 15 
counterobstacle vehicles, one 
UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, 
seven armoured recovery 
vehicles, as well as one 
command post vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise 
the AFU units is in progress.
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation 
January 9th, 12:30pm
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
continue the special military operation.
 
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces 
hit formations of one motorised infantry brigade of the 
AFU close to Volchansk (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses were up to 45 troops 
and one motor vehicle.
 
The Zapad Group of Forces' units improved the tactical 
situation and inflicted losses on manpower and
hardware of four mechanised brigades of the 
AFU, three territorial defence brigades, and 
1 national guard brigade by Dvurechnaya, 
Novaya Kruglyakovka, Kovsharovka, 
Ivanovka, and Zapadnoye (Kharkov 
region). Six counter-attacks 
launched by AFU assault 
detachments were 
repelled.
 
The AFU losses were up to 480 troops, one tank, three 
armoured fighting vehicles, including one infantry 
fighting vehicle, one Polish-made Rosomak 
armoured personnel carrier, and one 
Kozak armoured vehicle. Three 
motor vehicles, three artillery 
guns, two electronic warfare 
stations, & five ammunition 
depots were destroyed.
 
The Yug Group of Forces' units - improved the tactical 
situation along the front line and defeated formations 
of two mechanised brigades and two airmobile 
brigades of the AFU near Belogorovka, 
Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Chasov Yar, 
Vasyukovka, and Yantarnoye 
(Donetsk People's Republic). 
 
Two counter-attacks launched by 
AFU units were repelled.
 
The AFU losses --- were up to 245 troops, three armoured 
fighting vehicles, including two infantry fighting vehicles, 
and one Patriot armoured vehicle. Five pickup trucks, 
one electronic warfare station, and one ammunition 
depot were wiped out.
 
The Tsentr Group of Forces' units captured more 
advantageous lines and positions and inflicted 
losses on the manpower and hardware of five 
mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade of 
AFU, and one brigade of the National Police 
of Ukraine by Dzerzhinsk, Shcherbinovka, 
Shevchenko, Sribnoye, Petrovka, 
Vozdvizhenka, Novovasilevka, 
Petropavlovka... and 
Novoyelizavetovka 
(Donetsk People's 
Republic). 
 
In addition, 12 counter-attacks of AFU 
assault detachments were repelled.
 
The AFU losses were up to 510 troops, five armoured 
fighting vehicles, including one infantry fighting 
vehicle, one U.S.-made M113 and one French-
made VAB armoured personnel carriers, 
six motor vehicles, and five howitzers.
 
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces - advanced into the 
depth of the enemy's defences - and inflicted losses on 
formations of 2 mechanised brigades of the AFU, one 
marine brigade, and one territorial defence brigade 
close to Bogatyr, Konstantinopol, Velikaya 
Novoselka, Razliv, Komar (Donetsk
People's Republic), & Temirovka 
(Zaporozhye region).
 
The AFU losses ---- were more than 155 troops, one tank,
 seven motor vehicles, five field artillery guns, including 
one U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery
 system, and one U.S.-made 155-mm M198 howitzer.
 One ammunition depot was wiped out.
 
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower 
and hardware of one infantry brigade, two coastal 
defence brigades of the AFU, and one national 
guard brigade ------ close to Stepnogorsk, 
Novoandreyevka (Zaporozhye region), 
Ponyatovka, Antonovka, 
and Pridneprovskoye
 (Kherson region).
 
The AFU losses were up to 45 troops, one armoured 
fighting vehicle, and seven motor vehicles. Four 
electronic warfare stations and two 
ammunition depots were destroyed.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial 
vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian 
Groups of Forces struck infrastructure of military 
airfields, UAV workshops and depots, as well as 
engaged manpower and hardware clusters of 
the AFU formations and foreign mercenaries
 in 163 areas.
 
Air defence units shot down one French-made Hammer 
guided aerial bomb, 14 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS 
projectiles, and 71 fixed-wing unmanned 
aerial vehicles.
 
In total --- since the beginning of the special military 
operation -------- 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 39,794 
unmanned aerial vehicles... 590 anti-aircraft missile 
systems, 20,307 tanks and other armoured fighting 
vehicles, 1,507 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,352 field 
artillery guns and mortars ----- and 30,012 units of 
support military vehicles have been neutralised.
 
 
 
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Private Bordyug destroyed a 
machine-gun crew of the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces 
in the SVO zone
January 8th, 9:25pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Guards Lance Corporal Vladimir Averin, as part of a unit 
of attack aircraft, performed tasks to provide medical 
care to wounded Russian servicemen. 
 
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) tried to conduct a 
counteroffensive on the positions of Russian units. 

During the clash, Averin, risking his life under the
incessant shelling from the enemy, provided 
first aid to 20 wounded soldiers of the 
Russian army. When the battle was 
over, Averin arranged for the 
injured to be evacuated to 
a safe place...... for 
further treatment.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted -- the prompt
 and competent actions of the operator of unmanned 
aerial vehicles, Private Vladimir Bordyug. His group 
was given the task of storming the fortified 
strongholds of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine.
 
The group moved out on a mission -- but came under 
fire from the enemy, who arranged an ambush. The 
machine-gun crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
was placed on a hill and was well fortified. 
 
Bordyug correctly assessed the situation and launched
 an attack drone at the enemy. The AFU crew was
 successfully eliminated, and the Russian
 assault group continued its 
combat mission.
 
 
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The operator of the special forces 
UAV "Akhmat" told about the 
destruction of the APU 
equipment near the 
Berdin farm
January 8th, 5:47pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The operator of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), of the 
special forces "Akhmat" - with the call sign Psycho - on 
January 8 told Izvestia about the cohesive work of the 
soldiers and the success of the units during the 
attempt of the Armed Forces of Ukraine  to 
break through the village of Berdin in 
the Kursk region.
 
It is known that only in the first day of its calculation 
with the use of kamikaze drones eliminated nine 
units of Ukrainian equipment. According to the 
Psycho, on January 5, the unit was informed 
that a large armoured column of the enemy 
was approaching from near Sudzha in their 
direction. It turned out that the column 
consisted of tanks, armoured vehicles 
and armoured personnel carriers, 
and ahead of it - was a trawl 
that scattered mines.
 
The UAV operator noted that the sight caused him 
great excitement. Despite this, the task of 
stopping the armoured group --- was 
completed on the first day.
 
"Also, guys from other units — from tanks, artillery, 
tanks - were beaten. It was a cohesive and 
beautiful work of the highest order," 
said Psych.
 
He added that for the next two days, the servicemen 
burned down the damaged equipment "so that it 
would not be dragged away", and hunted down 
the vehicles and infantry scattered on 
the landings.
 
Earlier in the day, the Russian Defense Ministry 
published footage of the combat work of 
military units of the 30th motorized rifle 
Regiment of the group of forces "North"
 to defeat armoured vehicles and 
personnel of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine in the Kursk border 
area. The Ukrainian army 
made an attempt to get
 to Berdin, but it was 
not crowned with 
success.
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Russian positions 
in the border areas of the Kursk region on August 6th, 
2024. The situation in the region was recognized as 
a federal emergency. The elimination of Ukrainian 
militants who invaded Russian territory....
 is underway.
 
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which 
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on 
February 24, 2022, continues. The decision 
was made against the background of the 
worsening situation in the region.
 
 
 
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The Pentagon... does not have time
to send $2 billion in aid to Ukraine
before the end of Biden's term
January 8th, 5:23pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Pentagon does not have time until the end of the 
term of US President Joe Biden to allocate military 
assistance to Ukraine for the remaining $2 billion.
 
This was stated by a senior representative of 
the United States Department of Defense.
 
"There will be more than $2 billion left in aid to the PDA 
(program for decommissioning weapons from US 
depots) for future use after January 20," RIA 
Novosti quoted him as saying.
 
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken assured that 
the US will send military aid to Ukraine ...until 
the last day of the Biden administration.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on 
repelling AFU attempt.... to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 8th, 1:58pm
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue 
the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which
 broke into the territory of Kursk region.
 
The Sever Group of Forces - engaged the formations 
of four mechanised brigades, a tank brigade, an air 
assault brigade, an assault brigade, two territorial
defence brigades, and an assault regiment of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine as well as a national 
guard brigade near Viktorovka, Zazulevka, 
Kazachya Loknya, Kositsa, Kurilovka, 
Lebedevka, Loknya, Martynovka, 
Melovoy, Mirny ---- Russkoye 
Porechnoye, Sudzha --- and 
Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. 
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and Artillery 
strikes engaged AFU manpower and hardware 
close to Vesyolovka, Guyevo, Daryino, 
Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolayevka, 
Nikolsky, Novenkoye, Pogrebki, 
Sverdlikovo, Yuzhny, Belovody, 
Vodolagi, and Zhuravka in 
Sumy region. 
 
For the past 24 hours, the AFU lost over 290 troops, a 
tank, an armoured personnel carrier, four armoured 
fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, and three 
artillery guns.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region ---- the 
AFU losses amounted to more than 50,120 troops, 294
tanks, 217 infantry fighting vehicles ---- 160 armoured 
personnel carriers, 1,515 armoured fighting vehicles, 
1,430 motor vehicles, 347 artillery guns ---- 44 MLRS 
launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS 
made by the US, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, 
eight transport-loading vehicles, 89 EW stations, 
13 counter-battery warfare radars, four air 
defence radars, 29 units of engineering 
and other materiel, including 15 
counterobstacle vehicles, one
UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, 
seven armoured recovery 
vehicles, & 1 command 
post vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise the 
AFU units.... is in progress.
 
 
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Zelensky decided to run 
for a second term.....
on 
one condition
by Ekaterina Podvigina (editor of the
Operational Information Department)
January 8th, 1:52pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
President of Ukraine.. Volodymyr Zelensky, has 
decided to run for a second presidential term. 

This became known to the Ukrainian 
publication "Telegraph".
 
"Vladimir Zelensky.. has already decided to run for a 
second presidential term, although he has not yet 
publicly confirmed this," the publication quotes 
an unnamed interlocutor from the entourage
of
 the Ukrainian leader.
 
At the same time, it is noted... that Zelensky will run for 
a second term, provided that the former commander
-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 
Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK,
Valery Zaluzhny... does not run 
for election.
 
At the same time, in December last year, the Ukrainian 
publication Strana, citing its own sources, reported 
that Zelensky's office discouraged Zaluzhny from
running - in the event of elections - and if he 
participated, then only at the head of the 
list of the Servant of the People party.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation 
January 8th, 12:30pm
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
continue the special military operation.
 
In Kharkov direction, the Sever Group of Forces hit 
formations of a motorised infantry brigade of the 
AFU  close to Volchansk (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 40 troops, an 
armoured fighting vehicle, and an artillery gun.
 
The Zapad Group of Forces units improved the tactical 
situation --- and delivered strikes at manpower and 
hardware of two AFU mechanised brigades near 
Boguslavka, Dvurechnaya, Zagoruykovka, and 
Petropavlovka (Kharkov region). One counter-
attack launched by an AFU assault 
detachment was repelled.
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 380 troops, an 
infantry fighting vehicle, two U.S.-made HMMWV 
armoured fighting vehicles, 8 motor vehicles, 
and four artillery guns. Five ammunition 
depots were eliminated.
 
Units of the Yug Group of Forces --------- took more
advantageous lines and positions. Russian units 
engaged 2 mechanised brigades, an airmobile 
brigade of the AFU nr Seversk, Belogorovka, 
Chasov Yar, Vasyukovka, and Yantarnoye 
(Donetsk People's Republic). Three 
counter-attacks launched by the 
enemy's assault detachments 
were repelled.
 
The AFU losses amounted to more than 280 troops 
and 18 men of the 46th Airmobile Brigade were 
taken prisoners west of Kurakhovo
 (Donetsk People's Republic).
 
Russian units engaged a tank, an infantry fighting 
vehicle, a U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel 
carrier, seven pick-up trucks, two artillery 
guns, and an ammunition depot.
 
The Tsentr Group of Forces --- improved the situation 
along the front line, inflicted losses on manpower 
and hardware of five mechanised brigades, a 
jaeger brigade, an air assault brigade, two 
assault battalions of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine --- a marine brigade, a territorial 
defence brigade ----- two national guard 
brigades and a national police brigade 
close to..... Alekseyevka, Andreyevka, 
Nadezhdinka, Krasnoye, Shevchenko, 
Dzerzhinsk, Volkovo, Krasnoarmeysk,
 Dimitrov, Peschanoye, Vozdvizhenka, 
Novoyelizavetovka, Shcherbinovka, 
and Novoleksandrovka (Donetsk
 People's Republic). Thirteen 
AFU counter-attacks 
were repelled.
 
The AFU losses amounted to more than 530 troops, 
two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor 
vehicles, and two towed guns.
 
The Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing to 
the depth of the enemy's defences. Strikes - were 
delivered at formations of a mechanised brigade 
and two air assault brigades close to Bogatyr, 
Velikaya Novoselka, Razliv, & Konstantiopol
 (Donetsk People's Republic). One AFU 
attack was repelled.
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 160 troops, a U.S.-
made MaxxPro armoured fighting vehicle, a motor 
vehicle, four guns including a Polish-made 
155-mm Krab self-propelled artillery 
system. One military hardware 
depot and one electronic 
warfare station were 
neutralised.
 
The Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and 
hardware of a mechanised brigade of the AFU near 
Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 70 troops, 
nine motor vehicles, and a field artillery gun.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, Missile 
Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces 
have engaged the infrastructure of military airfields, 
the place where unmanned aerial vehicles were 
assembled and stored, clusters of AFU man-
power and hardware and foreign 
mercenaries..... in 147 areas.
 
Air defence units shot down six U.S.-made 
HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 105 fixed-
wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
In total -- since the beginning of the special military 
operation ------- 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 39,723
unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile 
systems, 20,290 tanks and other armoured fighting 
vehicles, 1,507 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,284 field 
artillery guns and mortars...... and 29,983 units of 
support military vehicles have been neutralised.
 
 
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Rogov: the Russian army knocked out
 the APU from Petropavlovsk to the 
DPR, cleaning is underway
January 8th, 10:55am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian armed forces knocked out enemy units
from Petropavlovsk village, located in the west
of 
the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). 
 
This is reported by RIA Novosti ---- with reference to 
Vladimir Rogov, Chairman of the commission of the 
Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on 
sovereignty and co-chairman of the 
Coordination Council for the 
integration of new regions.
 
"Our troops drove out Ukrainian militants from the village 
of Petropavlovsk --- which is located north of Kurakhovo. 
Now, the cleaning there, is almost finished," said Rogov.
 
Rogov stressed that Russian troops continue to advance 
to the western borders of the DPR. Petropavlovsk is 
located north of the city of Kurakhovo. It is of key 
operational importance, as it is located 46 kms
 from Donetsk and 30 kilometres south of 
Krasnoarmeysk (previously... renamed 
Pokrovsk by the Kiev authorities).
 
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian 
Federation on January 6, Kurakhovo is completely 
under the control of Russian forces and has been 
liberated from Ukrainian troops.
 
 
 
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A soldier of the Russian Armed Forces 
took out 12 colleagues wounded in
 the battles for Kurakhovo 
on a motorcycle
January 8th, 4:25am
(Vesti.ru)
 
A soldier of the assault squad of the 110th motorized 
rifle brigade of the "Southern" group of troops told 
about how he took out 12 wounded comrades on 
a motorcycle, saving their lives.
 
According to the stormtrooper, he learned to drive 
a motorcycle as a child, which he reported to 
the command, which assigned him the task 
of evacuating servicemen. During the 
operation to liberate Kurakhov, he 
took out 12 fighters, 4 of whom 
were seriously wounded.
 
"I didn't lose a single comrade.. I took everyone out, 
everything went well," the soldier with the call sign 
Katrang - told RIA Novosti.
 
In addition, he delivers ammunition, water and other 
necessary items to the positions -- on a motorcycle.
 
 
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Lance Solovyov destroyed 
APU fortifications in 
the SVO zone
 January 7th, 9:45pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Lance Corporal Ilya Solovyov, part of the MSTA-B 
howitzer crew, provided artillery support to 
Russian servicemen during the assault on 
the stronghold of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine (AFU). 
 
Russian air reconnaissance determined the coordinates 
of the location of enemy fortifications. Solovyov quickly 
received the data of the scouts and aimed the gun at
 the coordinates transmitted to him. 
 
The APU fortifications were destroyed, and the enemy 
suffered significant losses in manpower. Russian 
servicemen were able to gain a foothold on new 
frontiers, and the Ukrainian side was forced 
to retreat.
 
The Defense Ministry also noted -- the courage and 
professionalism of Lance Corporal Bulat Budayev, 
who performed tasks to deliver ammunition and 
food to the areas where the Russian Armed 
Forces are located. 
 
He served as a member of the logistics support brigade 
and was given the task of delivering cargo to military
personnel of the Russian Army, leading a battle 
with superior enemy forces.
 
On the approach to the line of engagement, Budayev
was shelled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. After 
performing a series of professional maneuvers, 
the corporal managed to get the vehicle out 
of enemy fire. The cargo was delivered 
within the specified time frame.
 
 
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Evacuation group of the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces abandoned their
wounded soldiers near Kursk
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the 
Operational Information Dept)
January 7th, 7:57pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
The evacuation group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
left wounded soldiers to die in an open field in the 
Kursk region, military correspondent Alexander 
Kots reported, on his Telegram channel.
 
According to the military commander, two vehicles took 
several wounded people... and began to move to their
positions, but "for some unknown reason" two still 
alive soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
were thrown out of the car.
 
"The fact that the Ukrainian army does not take the 
wounded is not a secret, but when they are thrown 
out of evacuation vehicles to die in an open field, 
this is the first time that the UAV operators of 
the Northerners have seen this," Kots said.
 
Earlier, Koc revealed details of the AFU offensive in the 
Kursk region. He suggested that the Ukrainian troops
 are trying to solve the problem of the threat to the 
logistics of their northern group in the region. 
 
He also suggested that this may not be the 
main blow, since the maneuvers are too 
widely covered in the media.
 
 
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The fighter with the call sign October 
admitted that it was hard to liberate 
Kurakhovo
January 7th, 7:08pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Kurakhov direction was difficult for the soldiers of 
the Russian Armed Forces, but thanks to the courage 
of the soldiers, the city was liberated. This was told 
by a serviceman of the 110th OMSBR with the call 
sign October.
 
He reported on the liberation of Kurakhov.
 
"It was a difficult direction, but thanks to the courage of 
our guys, we still passed it. They [the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine] began to withdraw, withdraw, withdraw, until 
we drove them out of the city altogether. We strongly 
resisted," the fighter said.
 
He noted that the enemy used mainly kamikaze 
drones and artillery. But there was not much 
automatic combat.
 
"They were just hiding, hiding, hiding 
and running away all the time," 
October added.
 
Russian military officer Gurya said that 
our soldiers took five-story buildings 
in Kurakhov... without hindrance.
 
 
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A Christmas miracle happened - to 
a member of the SVO & his family
January 7th, 4:32pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
A Christmas miracle happened to the boy Zakhar 
Plokhikh, who wished.... that his father was 
allowed to go on vacation with his family. 
 
This was told to the TV channel "Russia" - by the child 
himself and his father, the commander of the assault 
company Vasily.
 
Zakhar said that he made his wish during a meeting with 
Russian President Vladimir Putin on National Unity Day.
 
"On the fourth of November, at the flower-laying
 ceremony, I was lucky enough to make a wish 
that my hero dad would be released on 
vacation," the boy said.
 
The pope confirmed that on January 3rd, 
he came on vacation for the holidays.
 
Earlier, Patriarch Kirill congratulated
 Putin --- on Christmas.
 
 
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The Kursk schoolboy helped the military 
perform their duty in a zone of SVO
January 7th, 4:10pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
A schoolboy from the Kursk region, Platon Medvedkov, 
helped the military performing their duty during a 
special military operation. Details, his mother 
told on the air of the TV channel "Russia".
 
According to her --- the son decided to help the military 
instead of a gift for himself, for which he saved money.
 
"He was collecting money for a motorcycle jacket,
but he found out that the guys, the military 
[missile] "Hymars" flew into their dugout, 
and.... they lost their property. They 
needed an optical camera - scouts. 
He used the money he saved to 
buy this pipe – and it's great," 
Irina Medvedkova said, on 
the Rossiya TV channel.
 
The boy also admitted.... whether it was 
a shame for him to be left without a gift.
 
"No, because helping is important," 
Plato explained.
 
The student attended a Christmas service at the Church 
of St. George, on Poklonnaya Gora, in Moscow, where 
President Vladimir Putin also celebrated Christmas. 
 
Around the head of state, were participants of a special 
military operation, their families and volunteers helping
 those who lost their property and shelter -- due to neo-
Nazi attacks.
 
Earlier, Platon Medvedkov, an activist of the Movement 
of the First and organizer of the campaign "Children of 
Kursk – children of Shebekino", conducted a tour of 
the exhibition "Russia" ...for the President of the 
Russian Federation - and told how he and his 
family help children of the Belgorod city 
of Shebekino.
 
 
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 In Ukraine, military enlistment officers 
forcibly mobilized a man -- beating
him 
on the legs and hands
January 7th, 3:12pm
(RT.ru)
 
A resident of the city of Lviv in western Ukraine tried to 
resist the staff of the military enlistment office, but
was 
forcibly mobilized.
 
As reported by the Ukrainian edition "Country.na" 
Trying to drag the man into the bus, the military 
commissars beat him on the hand and foot.
 
Earlier it was reported about a resident of 
Dnepropetrovsk, who wounded a police 
officer with a knife during a conflict 
with the military commissars.
 
 
 
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In Ukraine, recognized the superiority 
of Russian aircraft over the F-16
January 7th, 3:02pm
(RT.ru)
 
The F-16 fighter jets received by Ukraine from Western 
countries are not able to compete in air battles with 
Russian high-tech aircraft.
 
A statement about this, was made by the speaker of the 
Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yuriy Ignat. 
He noted that Kiev received from the allies.. "not too 
new modifications" of fighters.
 
"We do not have powerful radars and long-range missiles 
on these planes to compete alone in air battles with
the 
technological aircraft of the Russians,"
he wrote, on 
social networks.
 
Earlier it was reported that in Ukraine, the terms of 
training pilots on US F-16 fighters were reduced 
by three months.
 
 
 
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Patriarch Kirill compared the state 
of Ukrainians... to a "drug dream"
January 7th, 2:33pm
(RT.ru)
 
The state in which the people of Ukraine are living 
is similar to a "narcotic dream". This was stated 
by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
 
According to him, voiced on the Rossiya TV channel, 
this dope, which was caused by the actions of 
external forces that set out to divide Russia 
and Ukraine, is a short-term phenomenon, 
similar to anesthesia.
 
"Then ---- a person wakes up after a drug-induced dream 
and begins to return to reality, including questioning 
the visions... that he experienced during this drug-
induced dream," the TASS news agency quotes
 the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
 
 
 
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Volodin congratulated the Russians 
on Christmas and wished them 
harmony and prosperity
January 7th, 2:07pm
(RT.ru)
 
The Chairman of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin,
congratulated the citizens of Russia, on Christmas 
and wished them health, harmony and prosperity.
 
The Speaker of the lower house of Parliament published 
his congratulations in his personal Telegram channel. 
Volodin wished that this festive day ---- will fill the 
hearts of Russians with joy, love and warmth.
 
"I wish that harmony, harmony and prosperity will always
 be in your homes, and the star of Bethlehem will light 
the way to happiness! I wish you all good health!" 
he wrote.
 
Earlier it was reported about the solemn services 
that took place on Christmas Day, in different 
cities of Russia.
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports --- 
on repelling AFU attempt to invade 
Russian territory in Kursk region
January 7th, 1:45pm
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue 
the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which 
broke into the territory of Kursk region.
 
In the course of offensive actions -- units of the Sever 
Group of Forces inflicted losses on the formations of 
one heavy mechanised brigade, three mechanised 
brigades, two air assault brigades, one marine 
brigade, and two territorial defence brigades 
of the AFU near Kazachaya Loknya, 
Kubatkin, Lebedevka, Nikolsky, 
Sudzha, and Cherkasskoye 
Porechnoye.
 
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery 
inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the
 enemy near Zazulevka, Zamostye, Kamyshovka, 
Mirny, Russkoye Porechnoye, Sverdlikovo as 
well as Basovka in Sumy region.
 
Over the past 24 hours --- the AFU losses amounted to 
more than 325 troops, ten tanks, one infantry fighting 
vehicle, an armoured personnel carrier, 11 armoured 
fighting vehicles, 8 motor vehicles, three artillery 
guns, and three mortars.
 
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region ---- the 
AFU losses amounted to more than 49,830 troops, 293 
tanks, 217 infantry fighting vehicles, 159 armoured 
personnel carriers, as well as 1,511 armoured 
fighting vehicles, 1,426 motor vehicles... 344 
artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 
13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the 
USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers --- 8
transport-loading vehicles, 89 EW stations,
13 counter-battery warfare radars --- 4 air 
defence radars, 29 units of engineering 
and other materiel -- including 15 
counterobstacle vehicles, one 
UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, 
..seven armoured recovery 
vehicles, and 1 command 
post vehicle.
 
The operation to neutralise 
the AFU units is in progress.
 
 
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TASS: most of Dzerzhinsk in the
 DPR is cleared of AFU militants
January 7th, 1:18pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were driven out
of most of the city of Dzerzhinsk in the DPR (Ukrainian 
name - Toretsk), the Russian security forces said.
 
The mopping-up of Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk) continues, 
the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost thousands 
of militants, a source in the security forces 
told TASS.
 
"The enemy was knocked out --- from most of 
the territory of Dzerzhinsk," the report says.
 
In December, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, spoke
 about heavy fighting and the advance of Russian troops 
in Dzerzhinsk. He said that most of the city's high-rises
 are already under the control of the Russian Armed 
Forces. According to him, it is from Dzerzhinsk 
that the APU is hitting Horlivka.
 
 
 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation 
January 7th, 12:45pm
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
continue the special military operation.
 
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces 
inflicted losses on the formations of one mechanised 
brigade, one air assault brigade of the AFU, and one 
territorial defence brigade near Oreshanka, Granov, 
Veterinarnoye (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 65 troops, two motor 
vehicles, two 152-mm D-20 guns, and two 122-mm 
D-30 howitzers.
 
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical 
situation along the front line. Losses were inflicted.. on 
manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades 
and one assault brigade of the AFU near Zeleny Gay, 
Petropavlovka (Kharkov region), and Novoyegorovka 
(Lugansk People's Republic). Two counter-attacks 
launched by AFU assault detachments 
were repelled.
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 580 troops, two 
infantry fighting vehicles, 12 motor vehicles, one 
Italian-made Iveco armoured fighting vehicle, an
Italian-made 105-mm Melara Mod 56 howitzer, a 
German-made 155-mm Panzerhaubitze 2000 
self-propelled artillery system, one 122-mm 
Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system... 
three 122-mm D-30 howitzers.... one U.S.-
made M113 armoured personnel carrier, 
two U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzers, 
two U.S.-made 155-mm M198 howitzers, 
and one U.S.-made 105-mm M119 gun.
 
One Israeli-made RADA RPS-42 counter-battery radar, 
four Khortitsa, one Bukovel-AD, and one Anklav
 electronic warfare station as well as one 
ammunition depot, were destroyed.
 
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more 
advantageous lines and positions. Losses 
were inflicted on the formations of one 
mechanised brigade, one motorised 
infantry brigade, and two airmobile 
brigades of the AFU near Seversk, 
Predtechino, Dachnoye, and 
Belogorovka (Donetsk 
People's Republic). 
 
Two counter-attacks launched by the enemy's 
assault detachments were repelled.
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 245 troops, one tank, 
one infantry fighting vehicle, two pick trucks, two 122-
mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, one 122-
mm D-30 howitzer, and two U.S.-made 105-mm M119 
guns. Three ammunition depots were destroyed.
 
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the tactical
 situation. Losses were inflicted on the manpower and 
hardware of four mechanised brigades of the AFU, 
three territorial defence brigades... two national 
guard brigades, and one brigade of the National 
Police of Ukraine by Druzdha, Panteleymonovka 
...Mirolyubovka, Shcherbinovka, Vozdvizhenka, 
Dzerzhinsk, Shevchenko, Aleksandropol, 
Dyleyevka, and Volkovo (Donetsk 
People's Republic). 
 
Twelve AFU counter-attacks launched
 by AFU formations, were repelled.
 
The AFU losses amounted to ------ up to 510 troops, four 
tanks, including two German-made Leopard tanks, 3 
infantry fighting vehicles, two U.S.-made M113 
armoured personnel carriers, five other 
armoured fighting vehicles, ten motor 
vehicles... three 152-mm D-20 guns, 
..a 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled 
artillery system, 2 122-mm D-30 
howitzers, and one U.S.-made 
105-mm M119 gun. 
 
One electronic warfare station 
was eliminated.
 
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing
to the depth of the enemy's defences. Losses were 
inflicted on formations of three mechanised 
brigades of the AFU, two territorial defence 
brigades, and one national guard brigade 
near Neskuchnoye, Velikaya Novoselka, 
Razliv, Volnoye Pole, and Vremevka
 (Donetsk People's Republic). Two 
counter-attacks launched by the 
enemy's assault detachments 
were repelled.
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 155 troops, two 
armoured fighting vehicles, five motor vehicles, 
one 152-mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery 
system, one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled
 artillery system, and one 122-mm D-30 
howitzer. One ammunition depot,
 was wiped out.
 
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on 
manpower and hardware of one infantry brigade of 
the AFU near Pyatikhatki (Zaporozhye region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 80 troops, six motor 
vehicles, and one 122-mm D-30 howitzer. One Bukovel-
AD electronic warfare station and one ammunition 
depot, were destroyed.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial 
vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian 
Groups of Forces struck infrastructure of military 
airfields, ammunition depots, as well as engaged 
manpower and hardware of the armed AFU
 formations and foreign mercenaries
 in 164 areas.
 
Air defence units shot down six U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS 
projectiles and 50 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
In total - since the beginning of the special military 
operation ------ 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 39,618 
unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile 
systems, 20,280 tanks and other armoured fighting 
vehicles, 1,507 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,270 field 
artillery guns and mortars...... and 29,955 units of 
support military vehicles, have been neutralised.
 
 

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Thirteen Ukrainian Armed Forces militants 
surrendered at the Berdin farm in the
 Kursk region
January 7th, 11:54am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian military captured 13 militants of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine. This happened.. near the village of 
Berdin, Kursk region, after the Ukrainians made an 
unsuccessful attempt to counterattack.
 
As a result, the opponents decided to voluntarily 
surrender to the Russian Armed Forces.
 
"13 Ukrainian militants surrendered near the village of 
Berdin," TASS quoted a representative of the Russian 
security forces as saying.
 
On January 5, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted a 
counterattack near Berdin in order to stop the advance 
of the Russian army. In response - the Russian forces 
represented by the group of troops "North" defeated
 the Ukrainian attack.
 
The next day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces again tried 
to make an attack, this time in the area of Bolshoy 
Soldatskoye. However, it was also stopped. As a 
result, Ukraine missed more than 150 fighters, 
as well as several types of equipment.
 
 
 
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Rogov reported on the encirclement of 
the remnants of the Ukrainian army
 garrison near Kurakhov
January 7th, 10:36am
(Vesti.ru)
 
In the area of the village of Dachnoye, located west of 
the city of Kurakhovo in the DPR, the remains of the 
garrison of Ukrainian troops were caught in a semi-
circle. This was announced by Vladimir Rogov, 
Chairman of the commission of the Public 
Chamber of the Russian Federation on 
sovereignty and co-chairman of the 
Coordination Council.. for the 
integration of new regions - 
in comments to RIA Novosti.
 
This development became possible, after Russian troops 
took control of the city of Kurakhovo itself. The Russian 
Defense Ministry announced the completion of this 
operation on Monday. As Rogov noted, "the 
remnants of Ukrainian militants who fled 
from Kurakhovo to Dachnoye village 
located to the west --- were in a 
semi-circle."
 
According to Rogov, Russian troops continue to move 
confidently to the western borders of the DPR.
 
Kurakhovo --- is an important strategic point. This city is 
located 46 kilometres from Donetsk - and 30 kilometres 
south of Pokrovsk (formerly known as Krasnoarmeysk). 
In addition, it is of great operational importance, as 
the largest settlement in the south-western part 
of the Donbass.
 
 
 
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Fighter of the Russian Armed Forces: 
our opponent will come to his senses 
and realize - that everyone used it
January 7th, 7:05am
(Vesti.ru)
 
They will not fight for the Ukrainians, and the West only 
uses them, trying to fulfill its aggressive plan. This is 
the opinion of a serviceman of the 88th separate 
motorized rifle brigade "North Wind" with the 
call sign Loer.
 
A fighter of the Russian Armed Forces on the Rossiya TV
 channel spoke about the well-coordinated work of our 
soldiers. Now the motorized rifle brigade is located in
 the Seversk direction and is making progress in 
advancing and repelling enemy attacks.
 
"There is confidence in the future that victory will be 
ours and peace will be restored, and our opponent 
will come to his senses - and understand that all 
his aggressive actions... including those of the 
West and America, all this happened because 
they were used. Because they were naive. 
No one will ever fight for them. It's just 
the destruction of the Ukrainian 
people," says Loyer.
 
Members of the "North Wind" brigade train at the training
 ground. Here, soldiers undergo a course of military 
training, including training in driving ATVs.
 
Earlier, another motorized rifle brigade of the Russian 
Armed Forces erected the Russian flag in the city of 
Kurakhovo. This settlement is the largest in the 
south-western part of the Donbass.
 
 
 
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The service on Christmas Day was held 
in the dugout church of the gunners of
 the Dnepr group
January 7th, 6:05am
(Vesti.ru)
 
A nightly Christmas service was held in one of the 
dugouts of the artillery brigade of the Dnipro 
Group of Troops. This is reported by the 
correspondent of RIA Novosti.
 
The servicemen stressed the importance of this holiday 
for the personnel. "In fact, this is a very good holiday. 
This is an Orthodox holiday, on which you must go 
to church, pray, take communion," said the 
soldier with the call sign Maloy.
 
Employees said that this night they will pray for the 
health of their comrades, relatives and friends. 
According to them, faith is a reliable support
 in the difficult conditions of performing 
combat missions.
 
A soldier with the call sign Sokol recalled a case when a
 priest came to visit them, during intense shelling. "The 
priest came, sprinkled us with holy water, sprinkled 
the gun, and this gun survived a lot of enemy 
attacks. It is still intact, and the guys are 
still intact," he said.
 
Cleric Hilarion conveyed Christmas greetings to those 
military personnel who remained at the combat post 
on the holiday. "God bless you, give you strength 
and patience. The victory will be ours. With 
God," he said.
 
 
 
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Metropolitan of Donetsk and Mariupol: 
at Christmas, we pray for peace 
in Donbas
January 7th, 5:37am
(Vesti.ru)
 
In the main church of the Donetsk Diocese - the
Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Saviour,
 prayers for peace in the Donetsk land were 
heard on Christmas Eve. 
 
The republic is waiting for liberation from the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine, which continue to fire at 
churches in the region. Metropolitan 
Vladimir of Donetsk and Mariupol 
said this - in an exclusive 
interview with Rossiya 
24 TV channel.
 
The hierarch noted that the residents of the DPR pray for
 peace... so that they can finally return to a calm, full-
fledged life, when they can work and create freely.
 
"I think that today, our joint prayer in all churches of 
Donbass will be heard by the Lord, and he will give
what we need, first of all, peace to our land, 
prosperity --- and bestow his mercies and 
generosity on all those who believe in
the Lord --- and turn to him in their 
prayers," the metropolitan said.
 
Christmas services were held in almost 200 churches 
of the Donetsk People's Republic. During the special 
operation the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral was 
repeatedly shelled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
 
Earlier, Metropolitan John of Belgorod and Starooskolsky
 said that clergy in the frontline regions continue to hold 
services, despite attacks from the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine.
 
 
 
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Russian drones destroyed command 
and observation posts of the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces 
in Chasov Yar
January 7th, 2:12am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Calculations of the Molniya UAV from the Ivanovo
 division of the Airborne Forces suppressed 
command and observation posts of the 
Kiev regime army in Chasov Yar.
 
"Military personnel of the Molniya UAV crew of the 
Ivanovo Guards Airborne Unit of the Airborne 
Forces, with pinpoint strikes on the fortified 
areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 
the area of the Chasov Yar refractory 
plant (DPR) destroyed the command 
and observation posts of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine with infantry," 
Interfax reports with reference 
to the information of the 
Ministry of Defense... of 
the Russian Federation.
 
It is specified that the striking effect of the "Lightning" 
was reinforced by an attached TM-62 anti-tank mine. 

Such a drone, was able to destroy the position of 
the Ukrainian Armed Forces with an observation
 post and enemy infantry in an abandoned house.
 
Earlier, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic 
Denis Pushilin said that the northern area of 
Chasov Yar is already under the control 
of Russian troops.
 
 
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Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
 massively surrendered in the Kursk region
by Alexandra Sinitsyna (Night Line Editor)
January 7th, 1:33am
(Lenta.ru)
 
Soldiers of the Armed Forces Ukraine (AFU) are 
surrendering en masse in the Kursk region 
after making several failed attempts to 
counterattack on the territory of the 
Russian region. This was reported 
to TASS by a source in the law 
enforcement agencies.
 
"A large number of prisoners 
were taken," the source said.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry earlier said --- that the 
Russian Armed Forces stopped an attempt to break 
through by the APU in the Kursk region. The losses 
of Ukrainian troops amounted to more than 150 
servicemen, 4 tanks, 2 infantry fighting 
vehicles, 16 armoured combat 
vehicles and an engineering 
barrier vehicle.
 
Before that, the United States revealed the plan of 
Ukraine in the Kursk region. As stated by retired 
Lieutenant Colonel of the US Armed Forces 
Daniel Davis... it was to ensure that the 
counterattack of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine created the impression 
that "they are still viable."
 
 
_________________________________
 
 
 
Private Kladov discovered and 
eliminated an APU FPV drone 
January 6th, 9:30pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Private Stanislav Kladov, being part of the self-propelled 
artillery mortar crew, discovered and eliminated an FPV 
drone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine approaching the 
position of the mortar crew. 
 
During the battle, while firing at the Ukrainian stronghold,
 Kladov was the first to detect the FPV drone, after 
which, having oriented himself, he opened aimed 
small arms fire on it. The APU FPV drone 
detonated in the air, without causing 
damage to the crew and the gun.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the dedication 
and heroism of Private Andrey Plyusnin, who secretly 
outflanked a sabotage group of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine during the ensuing clash and hit the 
equipped firing point along with the 
machine-gun crew located there 
with targeted fire.
 
Having lost machine-gun support, the Ukrainian 
sabotage group, suffering losses, was forced 
to leave their positions in a hurry 
and retreat.
 
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry noted the work 
of Sergeant Ivan Kornilovsky, who, commanding the 
automatic grenade launcher crew, was given the 
task of providing fire support to the assault 
group on the contact line. 
 
Upon arrival in the given area, he equipped a firing 
point at a dominant height, after which the crew 
entered the battle.
 
 
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A Russian soldier stormed an APU 
support post with a wounded 
colleague on his shoulders 
and was caught on video
by Varvara Koshechkina (editor of 
the Operational Information Dept)
January 6th, 1:27pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
A soldier of the 33rd regiment of the Yug group of troops 
-- stormed a stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
near Kurakhovo in the southwestern part of Donbass --
with a wounded colleague on his shoulders. The 
corresponding video is published in the
Telegram 
channel Zvezdanews.
 
It is specified that the attack aircraft with the call sign 
Peley did not leave a comrade on the battlefield, but 
continued to advance with him. As a result, his 
group managed to pass its section 
without losses.
 
"One covers. I have my three hundredth on my 
neck. And we are moving forward," Peley said.


 
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Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special 
military operation 
January 6th, 12:30pm
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
continue the special military operation.
 
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces 
defeated units of two territorial defence brigades close 
to Volchansk and Liptsy (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses - amounted to up to 70 troops, two 
armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, 
and one 122-mm D-30 howitzer. An ammunition 
depot was wiped out.
 
The Zapad Group of Forces' units improved the situation
along the front line, inflicting losses on manpower and 
hardware of three mechanised brigades, one assault 
brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 2 territorial 
defence brigades, and one national guard brigade 
near Druzhelyubovka, Podoly, Glushkovka, 
Kovsharovka, Dvurechnaya, Zapadnoye, 
Ivanovka (Kharkov region), Yampolovka, 
& Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic). 

Three counter-attacks launched by AFU 
assault detachments were repelled.
 
The AFU losses - amounted to up to 550 troops, two 
U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, one 
Italian-made Iveco armoured fighting vehicle, one 
Kozak armoured fighting vehicle, 12 motor 
vehicles, 1 UK-made 155-mm Braveheart
self-propelled artillery system, a 
U.S.-
made 155-mm M777 howitzer, a 
152-mm Akatsiya self-propelled 
artillery system, one 152-mm 
Msta-B howitzer, 2 122-mm 
Gvozdika... self-propelled 
artillery systems, plus 2 
122-mm D-30 howitzers, 
& 1 U.S.-made 105-mm 
M101 gun.
 
1 Mirazh and 1 Kvertus electronic warfare stations 
and 2 counter-battery stations ---- were eliminated.
 
The Yug Group of Forces' units have 
liberated Kurakhovo (Donetsk 
People's Republic).
 
Strikes were delivered at formations of 2 mechanised 
brigades, 2 motorised infantry brigades, 1 mountain 
assault brigade of the AFU near Piskunovka, 
Alekseyevo-Druzkovka, Minkovka, Chasov 
Yar, Verolyubovka, and Yantarnoye 
(Donetsk People's Republic). 
 
Three counter-attacks launched by the enemy's 
assault detachments - were repelled.
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 265 troops, a 
German-made Leopard tank, 2 U.S.-made M113 
armoured personnel carriers, one Kozak 
armoured fighting vehicle, one pickup 
truck, one Polish-made 155-mm Krab 
self-propelled artillery system, one 
U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer, 
three 152-mm Msta-B howitzers, 
one 152-mm D-20 gun, one 122-
mm Gvozdika self-propelled 
artillery system, and three 
122-mm D-30 howitzers.
 
As a result of decisive actions of the Tsentr Group 
of Forces' units, Dachenskoye (Donetsk People's 
Republic) was liberated.
 
Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of 5 
mechanised brigades, 1 jaeger brigade, 1 air assault 
brigade, 2 airmobile brigades of the AFU, a marine 
brigade, 1 territorial defence brigade, one assault 
brigade of the National Police of Ukraine... near 
Dzerzhinsk, Shcherbinovka, Dimitrov, Sribnoye, 
Andreyevka, Novovasilevka, Ukrainka...
Novoaleksandrovka, and Shevchenko 
(Donetsk People's Republic). 
 
Fourteen AFU counter-attacks 
were repelled.
 
The AFU losses ---- amounted to up to 535 troops, four 
tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, one U.S.-made 
M113 armoured personnel carrier, one French-made 
VAB armoured personnel carrier and five armoured 
fighting vehicles, including 1 U.S.-made HMMWV 
and one U.S.-made MaxxPro armoured fighting 
vehicles, ten motor vehicles, one Grad MLRS 
combat vehicle, one Polish-made 155-mm 
Krab self-propelled artillery system, two
152-mm Msta-B howitzers, and two 
122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled 
artillery systems.
 
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces - advanced into the 
depths of the enemy's defence, defeated formations of 
a mechanised brigade of the AFU and two territorial 
defence brigades --- near Bogatyr, Novy Komar, 
Neskuchnoye (Donetsk People's Republic), 
and Temirovka (Zaporozhye region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 170 troops, four motor
 vehicles, one 155-mm Bogdana self-propelled artillery 
system, one U.S.-made 155-mm M198 howitzer, one 
152-mm Giatsint-S gun, one 152-mm D-20 gun, and 
one 122-mm D-30 howitzer. One ammunition 
depot ...was wiped out.
 
The Dnepr Group of Forces' units have engaged the 
manpower and hardware of 1 mechanised brigade, 
two coastal defence brigades of the AFU, one 
national guard brigade.. close to Orekhov, 
Novoandreyevka (Zaporozhye region), 
Ponyatovka, Sadovoye 
(Kherson region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 80 troops, six motor 
vehicles, one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer, and 
a 122-mm D-30 howitzer. Three ammunition depots 
have been wiped out.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial 
vehicles & Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian 
Groups of Forces --- have engaged the infrastructure 
of military airfields, ammunition depots, workshops, 
and launch sites of UAVs, manpower clusters and 
military hardware of the enemy and foreign 
mercenaries, in 153 areas.
 
Air defence systems shot down one French-made 
Hammer guided aerial bomb, 12 U.S.-made 
HIMARS MLRS projectiles, as well as 115 
fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special military 
operation, 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 39,568 
unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft 
missile systems, 20,258 tanks and other 
armoured fighting vehicles, 1,507 MLRS 
combat vehicles, 20,239 field artillery 
guns and mortars, and 29,919 units 
of support military vehicles ---
have been neutralised.
 
***
 
Kiev regime does not stop provocations to create a 
threat of a man-made disaster at the Zaporozhye
 Nuclear Power Plant.
 
On 5 January, the AFU made another attempt to attack 
the Zaporozhye NPP and Energodar (Zaporozhye 
region) by eight fixed-wing UAVs.
 
Air defence systems shot down 
all unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
When one of the downed drones fell, it exploded 
and caught fire on the roof of the Zaporozhye 
NPP training centre.
 
There were no casualties or destruction at the 
station. The radiation situation is normal.
 
The personnel of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power 
Plant continue to operate in a normal mode.
 
 
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The capture of Kurakhov made it possible to 
push the front 40 km away from Donetsk
 for the first time in its history
January 6th, 11:04am
(Vesti.ru)
 
After the liberation of Kurakhov, the front line was moved
 40 km away from Donetsk for the first time, and direct 
artillery attacks are now impossible.
 
Today ---- Russian troops completely liberated Kurakhovo,
the largest city in the south-west of the Donbass. It was 
defended...... by 26 battalions of the Armed Forces of
 Ukraine, totaling more than 15 thousand people. 
 
The Kiev regime over the past 10 years, has turned the 
settlement into a powerful fortified area. In addition, 
the reservoir covered Kurakhovo from the north, 
which hindered the actions of our military.
 
According to Nikolai Novik, an expert at the HSE 
Institute of World Military Economics and 
Strategy --- the capture of Kurakhov 
will lead to a number of positive 
operational consequences.
 
"For the first time since the beginning of the new 
offensive, the front line has been moved more 
than 40 km away from the DPR capital,
 Donetsk, which makes it impossible 
to directly bombard the city with 
multiple launch rocket systems 
and smoothbore standard 
artillery," Novik said - in 
an interview with TASS. 
 
According to him, the hostile activity of unmanned 
aerial vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
will also significantly decrease.
 
Plus, the defense of Kurakhov was very expensive for 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine, both in terms of supply 
and construction of fortified positions, and in terms 
of involving personnel, and for us, it became "the 
most important reputational victory".
 
 
 
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Fighters of the group "North" - took 
control of the gray zone near Suja
January 6th, 5:05am
(Vesti.ru)
 
After clearing enemy units, the fighters of the Sever 
group gain a foothold in the Sudzhansky district of 
the Kursk region. The commander of the marine 
division with the call sign Sotnik on the air of 
the TV channel "Russia 24" ...said that the 
APU tried to fight them off with drones.
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sudzhansky district 
tried to fend off the attacks by Russian troops... by 
using drones.
 
"Mostly obstructed by the air "birds". The advance was 
very difficult, because it was necessary to go 800 ms 
in an open area. We chose weather conditions, and 
during the next rain, we took these points," said 
the commander of the marine division of the 
group of troops "North" with the call 
sign Sotnik.
 
After clearing the territories from enemy units... 
our troops are assigned to positions that were 
previously considered... a gray zone. The 
foreman of the marine assault company 
with the call sign Patron, noted that 
places of residence and dugouts 
are already being prepared for 
the fighters.
 
"Logs in 3 rolls, bulkheads, film, so as not to flood, 
bunks, stove. So that the personnel, when they 
go out on vacation, feel at home," he said.
 
Recall that in the border area of the Kursk region on 
January 5th, the Russian military thwarted a daring 
counterattack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces --- 
who attempted to advance in a large group to
the positions of the Russian Armed Forces.
 
 
 
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RAS report: scenario with 
military defeat of Ukraine 
is possible.... as early as 
2025
January 6th, 4:22am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The report of the Institute of World Economy and 
International Relations of the Russian Academy 
of Sciences (IMEMO RAS) .....examines the 
scenario of military defeat of Ukraine, 
which may occur in 2025.
 
The text of the report states that a military defeat of 
Ukraine under certain circumstances is possible as
 early as 2025. However, the implementation of 
this scenario requires not only the formation 
of certain external trends, but also the 
availability of additional resources 
and organizational efforts on the 
part of Moscow. At the time of 
writing... this scenario is not 
considered as a basic one.
 
The text notes, that the political system of Ukraine 
remains stable, despite the fatigue of society from 
military operations and a decrease in confidence 
in the current government.
 
The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, 
according to the report, reduced the role of 
parliament and limited the influence of 
Ukrainian oligarchs in the political 
system. The opposition - is 
completely ousted from 
the political field. 
 
Earlier, the Ukrainian leader used obscene language 
in the direction of Western partners, who, in his 
opinion, do not provide enough assistance
 to Kiev.
 


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The Ukrainian Armed Forces - questioned 
their ability to push back Russian troops
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the 
Operational Information Dept)
January 5th, 12:03am
(Lenta.ru)
 
Without a flood of US aid, Ukraine lacks the military 
resources to push back the Russian forces. This 
....is reported by The Washington Post, with 
reference to the soldiers of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
 
The author writes that some soldiers of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine are resigned: Western support 
for weapons... is declining. "Without the flow of 
this aid, Ukraine lacks the military resources
 to push back the Russians," he said.
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces do not believe in stopping
 the offensive of Russian troops, the journalist added.
 
 
_________________________________
 
 
 
The Ukrainian military declared
 fear ---- to go out in a uniform
January 4th, 11:50pm
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the 
Operational Information Dept)
(Lenta.ru)
 
Commander of the 3rd Assault Brigade of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine, Andriy Biletsky, expressed his
concern about the fact, that Ukrainian soldiers 
in uniform... are cautiously met in cities. His 
words.... are quoted by the publication
Country.na in the Telegram channel.
 
Biletsky said that the military should go to the cities in 
civilian clothes, because of "all this fear and hysteria
associated with military enlistment offices". 
 
According to the brigade commander, Ukrainians 
are wary of those who are in uniform, and
many 
people do not like it.
 
Earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian military
 commissars --- began to use the tactics of "taxi-
mobilization". It is assumed that taxi drivers 
can send information about conscripts 
to the ''shopping centre''.
 
 
 
__________________________________________
 
 
 
In Ukraine ----- they pointed out the weak 
defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the 
Operational Information Dept)
January 4th, 11:15pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Former brigade commander of the 53rd Brigade of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine, Anatoly Kozel, said that 
almost a third of the entire Ukrainian defense in 
the Donbass is in a vulnerable position due to 
holes. He said this in an interview with the 
Ukrainian Witness YouTube channel.
 
Kozel pointed out the weak defense of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine and stressed that ----- after taking control of 
Krasnoarmeysk --- Russia will have enough resources 
to continue the offensive in other sectors of the front.
 
"We have 30 percent of the front with holes in the
defense. < ... > That is, people in most [cases] 
go one way," the military noted.
 
Earlier, military analyst Mikhail Onufrienko said that 
the withdrawal of Russian troops to the border of 
the Dnipropetrovsk region, and the increased 
desertions in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 
could lead to a collapse of the Ukrainian 
defense. According to Onufrienko, at 
the current rate, the front risks 
collapsing... within a year.
 
 
___________________________________________
 
 
 
"Country.na": in Ukraine, gas was used 
against those barricaded in the
military
 enlistment office
January 4th, 11:06pm
(RT.ru)
 
In the city of Zaporizhia controlled by the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine, employees of the territorial recruitment 
centre (TCCC) ---- used gas against men who 
barricaded themselves in the premises.
This is reported by the Ukrainian 
edition "Country.na".
 
It is noted that in one of the military enlistment 
offices of the city, several men barricaded 
themselves in the room.
 
"The employees of the military registration and 
enlistment office, trying to break down the 
door, used gas," the publication says.
 
It is noted that we are talking about 
a confrontation of employees of the 
shopping centre with the mobilized.
 
 
__________________________________
 
 
 
Russia's military cleared settlements 
near Sudzha from AFU militants
January 4th, 10:15pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Volunteers of the Alexander Nevsky brigade, continue 
clearing settlements in Sudzhansky district of the 
Kursk region from Ukrainian militants, and also 
provide assistance to local residents who are 
returning to their homes.
 
"The arrivals --- were to [the church]. They have nothing 
sacred," said the commander of the artillery battery 
of the Alexander Nevsky volunteer reconnaissance 
and assault brigade, with the call sign First.
 
The Russian military - continues to dislodge Ukrainian
militants from the villages of the Kursk region. Even
 with the retreat ---- units of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine (AFU) continue to strike with drones
and artillery at dilapidated houses. 
 
As Izvestia correspondent Alexander Fedorchak noted, 
you can only move around the recently liberated 
settlements on a cross-country motorcycle 
because of the risk of shelling, and 
houses.. are still burning down on 
the streets from recent "arrivals".
 
Despite the situation in the area, local residents began 
to return to their homes. So, Vyacheslav Klimenko told 
the correspondent that he had already learned from 
the sounds of explosions to determine from which 
side the shelling is being conducted. According 
to him, despite the lack of gas and water, he 
could not leave his farm. The pensioner
is 
assisted by volunteers from the 
Nevsky brigade.
 
"My parents' house [motivated me]. Especially the
 bees…I have an apiary, in the shower here 
scratching. I didn't prepare them for 
winter this year," he said.
 
Despite the return of civilians to populated areas, 
as well as New Year's holidays, the Ukrainian 
militants continue trying counterattacks, 
said an artilleryman of the Alexander 
Nevsky volunteer reconnaissance 
and assault brigade with the
call 
sign Skripach.
 
"From a strategic point of view, the fact that they came 
here is stupid. I think so. They have less strength. But 
they are trying to attack here," - said his colleague, 
loading guns, with the call sign Byaka.
 
As the fighters noted, the main motivator for them is the 
support of local residents. So, nine-year-old Seryozha 
Boyev, every day, welcomes the military of the 
Russian Armed Forces -- who are sent to the 
front line. He has become a local celebrity, 
and fighters often bring him souvenirs 
as a thank you — this time he was 
presented with a new chevron
 for his collection.
 
Earlier in the day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported 
that the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 540 
servicemen in the Kursk direction during the day. 
 
Operational-tactical army aviation and artillery forces 
struck and hit the enemy's manpower and equipment.
 
It is noted that in total, during the fighting in the Kursk 
direction the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 
47,810 soldiers, 267 tanks, 205 infantry fighting 
vehicles, 147 armoured personnel carriers, 
and 1,418 armoured combat vehicles.
 
The Armed forces of Ukraine --- attacked the positions 
of the Russian Federation in the border areas of the 
Kursk region on August 6th. The situation in the 
region was recognized as a federal emergency. 
 
The elimination of Ukrainian militants who
 invaded Russian territory ---- is underway.
 
The special operation to protect the Donbass, which
 the Russian president announced on February 24, 
2022, continues. The decision was made against 
the background of the worsening situation in
the region.
 
 
 
____________________________________________
 
 
 
The Russian Defense Ministry reported
 on the exploits of the Russian military
 in the special operation zone 
January 4th, 9pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The ministry noted the actions of the captain 
of the medical service, Vadim Agashirinov. 
 
He, commanding a medical company, moved 
to the area of intense combat operations to 
provide medical care to the wounded, and 
remove them from the battlefield.
 
During the battle, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
(AFU) requested artillery support. When Agashirinov's 
company arrived at the positions, a group of 
seriously wounded soldiers found 
themselves in the area of the
enemy's artillery damage.
 
The captain, in turn, carried five soldiers out of the firing 
zone, loaded them into a car and evacuated them to the 
rear area. Thanks to Agashirinov's actions, the 
wounded servicemen were rescued and 
taken to the hospital --- where they 
received qualified medical care.
 
The Ministry of Defense also drew attention to the 
merits of Private Daniil Stryapchikha, who, as 
part of the engineering and sapper group, 
carried out the installation of mine-
explosive barriers - & performed 
tasks on fortifying positions 
of the Russian troops.
 
During the work, the servicemen were attacked by a 
Ukrainian drone, which dropped several improvised
explosive devices onto them. Despite receiving a 
shrapnel wound - Daniil Stryapchikh completed 
mining paths to our defensive lines, setting up 
more than 30 mines of various classes. 
 
This helped prevent a breakthrough of the Russian 
units' defense line --- in an important tactical area.
 
 
___________________________________________________


Consequences of Western support 
for Ukraine revealed UnHerd: The 
West has strengthened Russia's 
position by supporting Ukraine
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the
 Operational Information Dept)
January 4th, 8:26pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
The West's desire for an unattainable Ukrainian victory
has only strengthened Russia's position in potential
negotiations. This is reported by the UnHerd portal.
 
The authors of the article revealed the consequences of
supporting Ukraine and stressed that, in the quest for
Kiev's victory, the West has now strengthened
Moscow's position.
 
"By.... rejecting the previous opportunities for negotiations
when Ukraine was in a better position... Western leaders
allowed Russia to consolidate its military achievements 
and deprived Putin of any incentive to compromise," 
the publication notes.
 
According to journalists, despite the assurances of US
President-elect Trump, to quickly end the conflict,
in reality, this will be difficult to achieve.
 
 

____________________________________________
 
 
 
 
In Ukraine, a man died after an
 attempt to force mobilization
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the 
Operational Information Dept)
January 4th, 8:23pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
The deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Artem Dmytruk,
posted a video on his Telegram channel of a 
forceful mobilization in Chernivtsi, after 
which, allegedly, the man against 
whom force was used... died.
 
"Chernivtsi. Another "volunteer" was killed. The 
man died in hospital. The authorities and law 
enforcement agencies block any attempt to 
disseminate this information in local media 
and social networks," the politician wrote, 
adding that the incident allegedly 
occurred on December 19.
 
Dmytruk clarified that this incident is not 
the first case of murder of Ukrainians 
by military commissars.
 
Earlier it became known that in Izmail, Odessa region, 
Ukrainians who were abducted by employees of the 
territorial recruitment centre (TCK, analogous to 
the military enlistment office) right on the 
street, went on a hunger strike. 
 
Citizens claim that they have illnesses that make them 
unfit for military service, but they are kept in the gym 
of the shopping centre ----- and threatened with a
criminal prosecution.
 
 
 
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Russian journalists who were injured
in the AFU strike ------ were taking 
humanitarian aid to the church
by Marina Sovina (Editor of the
Operational Information Dept)
January 4th, 7:59pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
The Russian journalists injured by a drone strike by the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the Donetsk People's 
Republic (DPR) were carrying humanitarian aid 
to a church. This was reported to TASS by the
 editor of the publication "Bloknot Donetsk" 
Svetlana Larina.
 
"Bloknot took humanitarian aid to the church, and 
Alexander [Martemyanov] accompanied us, as 
he is very often in Gorlovka, filming the 
consequences of shelling," 
Larina said.
 
Earlier it was reported that Alexander Martemyanov, a 
freelance correspondent of the Izvestia newspaper, 
was killed - when an APU drone hit a car on the 
Donetsk-Gorlovka highway. According to the 
source, the Ukrainian troops deliberately 
attacked a civilian vehicle that was 
located far from the contact line.
 
 
 
_______________________________________



Izvestia correspondent Alexander 
Martemyanov --- was killed in a 
drone strike by the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces in the DPR
January 4th, 6:19pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Izvestia correspondent Alexander Martemyanov was 
killed when a drone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
(AFU) hit a car on the Donetsk – Gorlovka highway,
 the publication reports on January 4.
 
A civilian car carrying the journalist was 
attacked by a Ukrainian drone.
 
Martemyanov died of his injuries.
 
 
_________________________________


Russian Defence Ministry reports 
on the progress of the special
 military operation 
January 4th, 12:45pm
 
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
continue the special military operation.
 
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces 
inflicted losses on the formations of one mechanised 
brigade of the AFU, one special operations brigade,
 and one territorial defence brigade near Turovo, 
Perovskoye, and Sinelnikovo (Kharkov region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 50 troops, 
one tank, six motor vehicles, two 152-mm 
D-20 guns, & two 122-mm D-30 howitzers.
 
As a result of successful offensive actions, units of
 the Zapad Group of Forces liberated Nadiya
 (Lugansk People's Republic).
 
Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of 
three mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of 
the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near 
Dvurechnaya, Glushkovka, Ivanovka, Zagryzovo,
 Zeleny Gay (Kharkov region), Torskoye 
(Donetsk People's Republic), and 
Serebryansky forestry. 
 
One counter-attack launched by an AFU 
assault detachment was repelled.
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 590 troops, one 
infantry fighting vehicle, three pickup trucks, one 
152-mm D-20 gun, three 122-mm D-30 howitzers, 
one Czech-made 122-mm Striga MLRS combat 
vehicle, two U.S.-made M113 armoured 
personnel carriers, two U.S.-made 
HMMWV armoured fighting 
vehicles, one U.S.-made 
105-mm M101 gun, and 
a U.S.-made AN/TPQ-36
 counter-battery radar. 
 
One ammunition depot was wiped out.
 
Units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical 
situation along the front line and inflicted losses on 
formations of one motorised infantry brigade, eight 
mechanised brigades, a mountain assault brigade, 
one airmobile brigade, and one infantry brigade of 
the AFU near Predtechino, Seversk, Andreyevka, 
Petrovskoye, Konstantinovka, Nikolayevka,
Chasov Yar, Novomarkovo, and Kurakhovo
(Donetsk People's Republic). Two counter
-attacks launched by the enemy's assault 
detachments were repelled.
 
The AFU losses -- amounted to more than 250 troops, one 
Kozak armoured fighting vehicle, one 152-mm D-20 gun, 
one 122-mm D-30 howitzer, one U.S.-made 105-mm 
M119 gun, and one ammunition depot.
 
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing
 into the depth of the enemy's defences ----- and inflicted 
losses on manpower and hardware, of 7 mechanised 
brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one jaeger 
brigade, an airmobile brigade, 2 assault battalions 
of the AFU, one marine brigade, one territorial 
defence brigade, one national guard brigade, 
and one assault brigade of the National 
Police of Ukraine.... near Dzerzhinsk, 
& Druzhba, Rozovka, Mirolyubovka, 
Slavyanka, Sribnoye, Udachnoye, 
Novosergeyevka, Katerinovka, 
and Krasnoarmeysk (Donetsk
People's Republic). Twelve 
counter-attacks launched 
by AFU formations 
were repelled.
 
The AFU losses amounted to more than 440 troops, one 
tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, three armoured 
personnel carriers, including U.S.-made M113 and 
M1117 armoured personnel carriers, one Kozak 
armoured fighting vehicle, eight motor vehicles, 
one French-made 155-mm CAESAR self-
propelled artillery system, a 152-mm 
D-20 gun, and five 122-mm 
D-30 howitzers.
 
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing
 into the depth of the enemy's defences and inflicted 
losses on formations of two mechanised brigades 
of the AFU, one marine brigade, and 3 territorial 
defence brigades near Zelenoye Pole, 
Neskuchnoye, Novopol, and Velikaya 
Novoselka (Donetsk People's 
Republic). A counter-attack
 launched by AFU units 
was repelled.
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 170 troops,
 five motor vehicles, and one U.S.-made 
155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery 
system. One electronic warfare 
station, was eliminated.
 
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces took more 
advantageous lines and inflicted losses on 
manpower and hardware of two infantry 
brigades, one coastal defence brigade 
of the AFU, two territorial defence 
brigades, and one national guard 
brigade near Malye Shcherbaki, 
Pyatikhatki, Novoandreyevka 
(Zaporozhye region) - as well
as Zelenovka & Yantarnoye 
(Kherson region).
 
The AFU losses amounted to up to 70 troops, 
three motor vehicles, one 152-mm D-20 gun,
two 122-mm D-30 howitzers, and one 
electronic warfare station.
 
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial 
vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian 
Groups of Forces --- struck infrastructure of military 
airfields, attack UAV workshop and depot, as well 
as engaged manpower and hardware clusters of 
the enemy  -  in 132 areas.
 
Air defence units shot down eight U.S.-made ATACMS 
operational-tactical missiles and 72 fixed-wing 
unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
In total - since the beginning of the special military 
operation ------ 651 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 39,279 
unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile 
systems, 20,221 tanks & other armoured fighting 
vehicles, 1,506 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,186 
field artillery guns and mortars, and 29,857 
units of support military vehicles 
have been neutralised.
 
 
 
______________________________________



The Russian Defense Ministry --- is 
preparing to send a new version 
of the "Cockroach" to the SVO
January 4th, 5:52am
(Vesti.ru)
 
A new version of the electronic warfare system
"Tarakan", will be sent to the area of the 
Russian special operation (SVO). 
 
Thanks to... the use of six transmission channels, 
the electronic warfare tool will be more effective
 in countering kamikaze drones, according to
 the Novosibirsk Experimental Design 
Bureau (OKB) "Dronoskop".
 
Currently, the Design Bureau produces only four-channel 
and five-channel electronic warfare systems. The 
electronic warfare tool "Tarakan "is equipped 
with an automatic control unit" 
Dronoscope-4R", which 
includes suppression, 
only when an enemy 
drone approaches.
 
"If the electronic warfare system is constantly running,
 then the enemy is more likely to find its position than
 if the system is turned on only at the time of an 
attack by an FPV drone," the Dronoscope 
Design Bureau explained to TASS.
 
In addition, this mode of operation 
allows you to save battery power.
 
The electronic warfare tool "Tarakan" was developed in 
the spring of 2024. At this time, the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine (AFU) began to massively use FPV drones, 
against which, Russian fighters had almost no 
effective means of protection. The DJI and 
Autel drone suppression systems 
purchased in 2023 did not work 
against FPV drones. Also, the 
products...... of the Russian 
military-industrial complex 
lagged behind the enemy 
....with the update of 
frequency ranges.
 
The Dronoscope Design Bureau --- which specializes in 
the development and production of detection devices 
and systems, also reported an unusual case when a 
"Tarakan" of their development --- neutralized a 
Ukrainian heavy drone "Baba Yaga", in the 
special operation zone, which could not 
drop mines on Russian positions.
 


_________________________________
 
 
 
Belousov changes the Russian 
military machine ---- with a 
focus on innovation and 
cost optimization
January 4th, 4:16am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Andrey Belousov, who took up the post of the Russian 
Defense Minister in May 2024, is working to change 
the Russian military machine, introducing 
innovations and rationalizing costs, 
writes Vzglyad.
 
Belousov, previously, served as First Deputy Prime 
Minister of Russia. The publication notes that the 
appointment of Belousov as head of the Defense 
Ministry was unexpected, but predetermined by 
the difficult situation. Despite the successful 
repulse of the "counteroffensive" ....of the 
Armed forces of Ukraine (APU) in 2023, 
there were some difficulties, in 
particular, the country's 
military spending 
increased.... to
6.3% of GDP.
 
Analyst Pyotr Kolchin points out that in the new realities,
 the Russian army needed competent leadership, as well 
as the ability to use new types of weapons, such as 
drones. At the same time, it was Belousov who 
previously oversaw the creation of 
unmanned systems.
 
Andrey Belousov, writes "Vzglyad", in 2024 focused on
 a number of critical areas of work. These include 
rationalizing military spending, improving the 
quality and speed of administration, 
applying inventions, innovations 
and new technical solutions, 
supporting the "people's 
military-industrial 
complex" ---- and 
paying attention 
to drones (UAVs).
 
Belousov's work as minister is aimed, not only at 
winning the special operation, but also at 
ensuring a long-term balance in the 
upcoming global confrontation 
with NATO countries, the 
publication concludes.
 
 

___________________________________________


FOR CHINA'S PEACE PLAN --- PRESS BELOW!

China peace plan to end Ukraine war

Morgan Artyukhina

US Systematically Removed Trust 
and Transparency Safeguards 
Preventing Nuclear War,
Ignores Remainder
by Morgan Artyukhina
January 28th, 11:13pm (Sputnik)



During and after the Cold War, when NATO and the
 Warsaw Pact armies faced each other down, 
backed by nuclear arsenals, the two sides 
reached agreements to make war much 
less likely.


 However, the US has systematically pulled them apart 
in its quest to maintain global dominance --- making
the
 present situation significantly more dangerous.


As the US threatens to send thousands of troops
to
 Eastern Europe... joining an already-boosted 
an Enhanced Forward Presence by the NATO 
alliance, claiming... it needs to deter an
 imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine, 
it is proving inflexible... toward any 
defense considerations of Russia, 
on whose border, several NATO 
members sit.


The situation has Russian leaders, who have patiently
 and publicly articulated their concerns in Eastern
 Europe - as a way to resolve the present crisis -
flummoxed. The US has demanded that Russia 
pull its troops back from parts of Russia's 
territory near the Ukrainian border, 
claiming they pose an inherent 
threat to Ukraine. 


However, Moscow has denied any intent to invade, 
saying that its troops are engaged in drills, and
asserting its sovereign right to send soldiers
anywhere on its territory. Ironically...  the
Ukrainian
 leaders have also downplayed
US claims
 that an invasion threat exists.


The situation is so volatile because of years of
 building tension in the region, while at the 
same time, many of the safeguards 
intended to keep tensions and 
suspicions low have been 
removed or ignored by 
the United States.


1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty


The first blow was struck in 2001, when then-US
 President George W. Bush, unilaterally pulled 
the US out of the ABM treaty, which limited 
the US and Russia - the Soviet Union when
 the treaty was signed - to two complexes 
of ballistic missile interceptors.


It had been feared in the early 1970s that recent 
technological developments, such as multiple
 independent reentry vehicles (MIRV), could
 provoke a dangerous arms race, in which, 
a nuclear first strike might seem like the
 advantageous option for a nation with 
such a defensive network. 


By limiting defensive measures to a set of interceptors
 around the capital city and another around a complex
 of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silos, the
 US and USSR believed the threat of war 
was diminished.


Bush claimed... the treaty had left the US vulnerable to
 attack and created the Missile Defense Agency at the
 Pentagon to oversee a new generation of air defense
 systems, such as the Terminal High Altitude Area
 Defense (THAAD), Patriot PAC-3, and Ground-
Based Midcourse Defense. 


However, just 18 months prior, then-US President Bill
 Clinton had joined Russian President Vladimir Putin 
in calling the ABM Treaty the “cornerstone of 
strategic stability.”


As predicted, the treaty’s removal sparked an arms
race, with Moscow dusting off old plans for hyper-
sonic weapons which it unveiled in 2017, in order 
to compensate for Washington’s dramatically
 increased protection from ballistic
missile
 attack.


2002 Treaty of Moscow/ New START (Almost)


The Treaty Between the USA - and the Russian
Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions 
(SORT), also called, simply, the Treaty of 
Moscow, was a simple arms limitation 
treaty. Russia and the US agreed to
limit their nuclear arsenals 
to
between 1,700 and 2,200 
operationally deployed 
warheads each.


The deal had many faults, including that no warheads
 were destroyed, meaning they could be put into
 storage and then unpacked in 2012, when the
 treaty expired - and expire it did, albeit also 
being superseded by the New Strategic 
Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) 
in 2011. 


New START called for halving the number of strategic
 nuclear missile launchers, and established a new
 inspection and verification regime, although, it 
also did not get rid of the storage loophole.


The administration of former US President Donald
 Trump fully intended for New START to die, when
 it expired in February 2021, but after he lost the 
November 2020 election to US President Joe 
Biden, a new leader came into office just 
weeks before the expiration --- and
r
enewed it for another five years.


1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty


Similarly to the ABM Treaty, the US unilaterally pulled
 out of the INF Treaty in 2019. However, instead of
 simply stating it wished to develop weapons 
beyond the treaty’s limitations, the Trump 
administration accused Moscow of 
violating the treaty by lying about 
the range of its 9M728/9M729 
missiles used by Iskander
 missile systems. 


Nonetheless, within 2 weeks of the US’ formal 
departure from the treaty, in August 2019, it 
began testing the first of multiple missiles
 that violated the treaty’s limitations.


The origins of the INF Treaty lay in a dramatic
 showdown, across Europe, in late 1983, 
triggered by Washington’s deployment 
of ITS Pershing-II intermediate-range 
ballistic missiles (IRBM) to Europe.


 With a 900-mile range, a flight apogee of just 60 miles,
 and a maneuverable, radar-guided reentry vehicle, 
the missile could put an 80-kiloton nuclear war-
head on Moscow in between 6 and 11 minutes
 ...according to Pentagon leaders. Such a fast 
strike time gave the Soviets just minutes to 
identify, analyze and respond to the threat, 
greatly increasing the risk of them mis-
reading a situation and launching a 
mistaken nuclear return volley, 
believing it to be their 
only chance.


In addition, tensions in Europe had already been
 ramped up by years of psychological operations
 designed to increase Soviet anxieties, such as 
US bombers charging Soviet borders and 
turning away at the last second


That’s why, when NATO began the vast, ultra-realistic
 “Able Archer-83” war games, simulating an all-out
 attack on the Soviet Union, in November 1983,
it 
put Soviet fears through the roof. 


However, it wasn’t until after the war games had
concluded, several days later, that NATO 
commanders discovered key signs: the 
Soviets had loaded hundreds of strike 
aircraft in East Germany and Poland 
with nuclear bombs, and orders to 
strike “front-line targets” at a 
moment’s notice.


The INF Treaty eliminated missiles like the Pershing-II, 
banning land-based missiles with ranges of between
 500 klms and 5,500 klms. This significantly cooled
 tensions in Europe... although the treaty was only
 between the US and Soviet Union -- now Russia --
 which left other countries, such as China, free to
 develop their own intermediate-range missiles.


The INF’s absence now is especially poignant,
considering the long-standing Russian fears 
over a NATO Aegis Ashore missile system, 
built on a land base in Deveselu, Romania. 


While the US claimed the system was purely
 defensive, Moscow noted... that Aegis can 
also be used to launch offensive missiles.


 Among the missiles tested after the INF Treaty lapsed
 was a land-based Tomahawk missile with a range of 
1,600 kilometres - a cruise missile US Aegis 
cruisers have fired at sea for years.


1992 Treaty on Open Skies


The Open Skies treaty... was an attempt to increase
 transparency and put to rest fears of an impending
 attack by the other side. The deal allowed 35 
partner nations to perform reconnaissance 
overflights over other nations... using 
specialized aircraft with specialized 
equipment. However, flights could 
not interfere with other military 
activities and could be refused 
by the overflown nation, for a 
variety of reasons.


The US sent signs it was interested in leaving the
 treaty as early as 2019, claiming it was caused 
by Russia refusing US Open Skies aircraft 
access to several areas almost a decade 
earlier - denials Moscow insisted were 
within its rights under the treaty. 


The US finally made the move on May 21ST 2020,
 meaning the six-month cooldown time had the 
US leaving the treaty, after the November
2020
 elections, that Trump lost.


The decision sparked an outcry across Europe,
with
 Ukraine being one of the loudest critics;
that nation having long used Open Skies to 
perform overflights in western Russia, to
calm its nerves about troops and 
installations there.


Indeed, the Open Skies Treaty was drafted precisely to
 avoid the type of anxious confrontation... unfolding on
 the Russia-Ukraine border, over the last two months.


The Democrats publicly attacked Trump’s withdrawal
 as illegal then... although much of their criticism 
focused on his refusal to notify Congress before 
pulling out. However, in March 2021, a leaked 
message --- sent to concerned “international 
partners” by the Biden administration said
 it was afraid that doing so “would send 
the wrong message to Russia and 
undermine our position... on the
 broader arms control agenda.”


Istanbul, Astana Declarations


The Organization for Security and Cooperation in
 Europe (OSCE) has its origins in the November 
1972 multilateral talks in Espoo, Finland 
...intended to further the peaceful 
cooperation of the Detente era.


 Today, the OSCE has 57 members and 11 observers
 and continues to serve as a regional forum for 
resolving international issues.


Two of its most important declarations of principles
 came at summits in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1999 and in 
Astana (now Nur-Sultan), Kazakhstan, in 2010, 
which, among other topics, affirmed each
 nation’s right to its own security in the
 context of an international community.


"The security of each participating State... is
 inseparably linked to that of all others. Each
 participating State, has an equal right to 
security. We reaffirm the inherent right 
of each and every participating State 
...to be free to choose or change its
 security arrangements, including 
treaties of alliance, as
they evolve.''


 ''Each State also has the right to neutrality. Each
 participating State will respect the rights of
all 
others in these regards. They will not 
strengthen their security ...at the 
expense of... the security of 
other States.'' the Astana
 declaration states.


While the OSCE met in Vienna, Austria, 2 weeks ago,
 the talks yielded no major breakthrough. Earlier this
 week -- when the US and NATO delivered separate
 written responses to Russia’s December security
 proposal -- the US response was considerably 
more intransigent, while NATO’s, sent from 
Brussels and speaking for 30 member 
states, acknowledged the Russian 
security concerns and proposed 
mutual briefings in the NATO-
Russia Council and the re-
establishment of their 
respective envoys in 
Moscow & Brussels.


However, neither reply gave deference to Russia’s
 central concern --- the eastward expansion of 
NATO and the impact that has on Russian 
security, especially since now, the US 
explicitly regards Russia as a 
challenger to its position
...as 
leader of the post-
Cold War
 global order.


Speaking on Thursday, about the US response,
in particular, Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergey 
Lavrov said "The principle that one should not
strengthen one's security -- at the expense of 
the security of others is deliberately avoided.
Neither the Istanbul or Astana declarations
are mentioned by 
our Western partners
in the 
discussions on European 
security that are currently 
taking place. We cannot 
accept this.”


Morgan Artyukhina is a writer and news editor at
Sputnik’s Washington, DC, bureau...   focusing on
international & breaking news. Born in southern
Maryland, she studied Russian, Central, and 
East European Studies, at the University of 
Glasgow and is a former history professor. 

At Sputnik, she covers military technology, 
the expanding neoliberal police state, and 
the ongoing struggles against it in the US
and around the globe.



palestine

 
Paul Larudee:
Zionist Dream 
Turning into Nightmare
November 25th, 5:26pm (FNA)
 
 Paul Larudee, political activist and commentator, 
says Zionists have come to this understating 
- that Zionism is now nearing its predestined 
self-annihilation.
 
Speaking in an interview with FNA, Larudee 
said, “Zionism planted the seeds of its own 
destruction the moment they created a 
plan for a Jewish state in someone 
else's homeland. It is increasingly 
becoming an international pariah 
...contributing to the wars and 
conflicts in West Asia, South 
America, Africa, and other 
parts of the world. It only 
creates more enemies 
for them.”
 
Paul Larudee is an - Iranian-born - American political
activist who is a major figure in the pro-Palestinian
 movement. Based in the San Francisco Bay area, 
he is involved with the International Solidarity 
Movement, & was a founder of the Free Gaza
Movement & the Free Palestine Movement.

Larudee was a member of the US delegation 
aboard the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla,
 which was attacked by Israeli forces.
 
Below is the full text of the interview:
 
Q: Yaakov Sharett says “Israel and the Zionist
 enterprise were born in sin.” What do we 
learn about the nature of Israel?
 
A: Such words from a Zionist leader's son may help to
 gradually sink doubts into the minds of other Zionists,
 but we must not forget that many Jews were opposed
 to Zionism for decades before 1948. It is unfortunate
 that as Zionism became more successful in its
 genocidal project, it also became more 
acceptable to more Jews. But that is 
now being reversed. As Zionism 
becomes more racist, violent, 
and aggressive, it is starting 
to lose Jews who cannot 
stomach such behaviour.
 
Q: Such a significant assertion was made by the son
 of a signatory to the Israeli declaration in 1948. Do 
you believe settlers will learn a lesson to end their 
occupation of the Palestinians’ land?
 
A: There are two kinds of settlers that are being used
 to colonize the West Bank and Jerusalem. The most
 aggressive and violent are the ideological settlers,
 who think of themselves as conquering soldiers,
 much like the Europeans who took the land from
 the native peoples in the western hemisphere. 
 
They want to expel all Palestinians by any means
 necessary, and take their land. They do not need
 Israel to paint a rosy picture. They are ready to
 endure hardship, although Israel actually 
helps and enables them. The other type 
are the opportunists. Israel builds 
subsidized housing and industrial 
parks on Palestinian land... and 
makes it attractive for settlers 
to move there. Israel creates 
many advantages for them... 
so as to increase the Jewish 
population in the occupied 
territories and push the 
Palestinians out.
 
Q: Yaakov Sharett predicts a dark future for Israel 
and asks settlers to immigrate from Israel; like-
wise, Lawrence Wilkerson, former Israeli State
 Department aide, said Israel will be gone in 
some 20 years. How do you assess
 these statements?
 
A: Clearly, Sharett is being a realist in this case.
 Despite Israel's influence, propaganda, bribes 
and manipulations of other governments, it is
 increasingly becoming an international pariah, 
contributing to the wars and conflicts in West 
Asia, South America, Africa and other parts of 
the world. They believe that this makes them 
strong, but it only creates more enemies for 
them. Sharett seems to understand that the 
Zionist dream is proving to be unsustainable.
 It can only be realized by committing greater 
and greater crimes, but even many Zionists 
consider this too high a price for their dream, 
and their dream is turning into a nightmare. 
 
Zionism planted the seeds of its own destruction 
the moment they created a plan for a Jewish 
state on someone else's homeland.
 

palestine

UN Must Prevent Normalization of
 Israeli Violation of Human Rights:
 Iran Envoy
November 20th, 11am (al Manar)


Iran’s ambassador to the UN office in Geneva 
put the onus on the United Nations: to take 
action: against the normalization of the
systematic violation of human rights 
and humanitarian laws, by the 
Zionist regime.


In an address to a meeting between ambassadors 
of the member states of the Organization of 
Islamic Cooperation, residing in Geneva, 
and to members of the Commission of 
Inquiry of the UN Council on Human 
Rights, held on Friday, Esmaeil 
Baqaei Hamaneh called for the
clarification of true and false 
narratives, referring to the 
stories...  that equate the
victims of Israeli crimes 
with the perpetrators 
of the heinous acts.


“It is the duty of all of us to clarify the true and false
 narratives, the narrative that equates the victims 
of Israeli crimes, with their killers, which is 
humanly shocking, legally unfounded, 
and morally shameful,” the Iranian 
envoy stressed.


He added that the inquiry commission has an historic
 responsibility --- to prevent the normalization of 
systematic human rights violations by the 
Israeli regime. 


The Iranian diplomat invited all the participants in the 
meeting to call for justice; and not allow war crimes, 
crimes against humanity, and blatant violations of
human rights, to become normal, Press 
TV reported.


In May, the UN Human Rights Council agreed to initiate 
an international probe into “systematic” human rights
 abuses committed during the asymmetrical war 
between ‘Israel’ and Palestinian resistance 
groups in the besieged Gaza Strip. 


The 47-member forum adopted a resolution presented 
by Pakistan on behalf of the OIC and the Palestinian
 delegation to the UN, by a vote of 24 states in
favour, 
9 against, and 14 abstentions.


The UN rights body agreed to establish “an ongoing 
independent, international commission of inquiry” 
into the war to probe the “underlying root causes 
of recurrent tensions and instability, including 
the systematic discrimination and repression 
based on group identity.”


Israeli troops have, on numerous occasions, been 
caught on camera, brutally killing Palestinians... 
with the videos going viral online and sparking 
international condemnation. 


The Tel Aviv regime has been criticized for its extensive 
use of lethal force against, and extrajudicial killing of,
 Palestinians... who do not pose an immediate threat 
to the occupation forces, or to the Israeli settlers.


In a statement released on Tuesday, the Palestinian 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, called 
on the International Criminal Court to launch an 
immediate investigation into the Tel Aviv 
regime’s crimes, in the occupied 
Palestinian territories  ---  after 
the Israeli forces shot dead a
young man, in the northern 
part of the West Bank.


Source: Iranian Agencies

Bill Dores

 China is no threat
to people in the US;
Wall Street, CIA & 
the Pentagon are
-- Analyst
October 16th, 3:14pm (PressTV)
 
US political analyst and activist Bill Dores says
China is no threat to the people in the US., but
Wall Street, the CIA, and the Pentagon, are.
 
Dores, a writer for Struggle/La Lucha and a longtime 
antiwar activist, made the remarks in an interview
 with Press TV on Saturday, after the CIA launched 
a new mission centre to address what it calls
“the 
most important geopolitical threat”
posed...
 by China.
 
CIA Director William Burns said in a statement last week 
that the new unit, called the China Mission Centre, will
 “further strengthen our collective work on the most
 important geopolitical threat we face in the 21st 
century, an increasingly adversarial Chinese 
government.”
 
Burns said that his agency will still focus on other threats
 as well, including those emanating from Russia, North 
Korea and Iran.
 
The CIA’s renewed attention to China is the latest evidence
 of the Biden administration’s focus on Beijing as its main
 foreign policy target.
 
Since taking charge of the White House earlier this year, 
the Biden administration has been directing resources 
toward countering China.
 
Why is the CIA targeting China?
 
“The CIA is grabbing more tax money  ---  to start a ‘mission
 centre’ aimed at China, which it calls the ‘most important
 geopolitical threat we face.’ This is ominous news 
- considering the agency’s history of 'fabricating' 
evidence to start wars, e.g. Iraq’s nonexistent
 ‘weapons of mass destruction,’” Dores 
commented to Press TV.
 
“US troops have left Afghanistan. But not a dime has been
 slashed from the bloated US military budget. Indeed, it’s
 being increased to $778 billion from $753 billion to face 
the alleged ‘Chinese threat.’ That’s more than the 
combined military budgets of China, India, 
Russia, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Germany, 
France, Japan, South Korea, Italy 
and Australia,” he added.
 
“It’s also been revealed that US Special Forces have been 
operating secretly on Taiwan for two years. Meanwhile...
the US Congress will not pass the Build Back Better Act
 to modestly extend our social safety net,” he added.
 
“The People’s Republic of China...  has five times the
p
opulation of the United States. But it spends only 
$258 billion on its military. China’s forces are 
deployed in - or around - the borders and 
coasts of China. By no stretch of the 
imagination is China threatening 
he US militarily. Why would it? 
For what gain?” he asked.
 
So, what the Sam Hill is a ‘geopolitical threat.’ It’s a
 twisted concept based on the twisted premise that 
the United States, with 4 percent of the world’s 
population, should dominate the world 
politically & economically. And that 
really means the billionaires and 
millionaires, that Occupy Wall 
Street protesters called the 
‘One Percent,’” he stated.
 
China’s economic  ‘threat’ to US
 
“China’s real ‘threat,’ in the minds of the US corporate 
ruling class, is economic. China produces more than 
the United States, and its economy is growing
much 
faster,” the analyst said.  
 
“It has achieved this, not by destroying the economies of 
other countries with war and sanctions, but by growth, 
and trade. China’s Belt and Road Initiative has greatly
 weakened the stranglehold Wall Street banks once 
held on the world economy. An article in the US 
magazine Foreign Policy whined: that China is 
‘whittling away’ at the murderous ‘sanctions 
regime’ the US and West Europe use -- to 
‘punish’ countries that defy their 
dictates,” he explained.
 
“US corporations do, of course, invest in China. They make
 a lot of money there. But they cannot dictate to China's
 government the way US oil companies dictated to the 
Shah of Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Or 
the way they dictate to their paid servants in the 
White House and the Capitol today,”
 he observed.
 
“Politicians and news media tell working-class people in 
the US that China’s growth is, somehow, a threat to our 
well-being. They conceal the fact: that China’s dynamic
 growth is the biggest single factor staving off a global
 economic collapse,” he said.
 
“Yet it is their own Wall Street masters who have shut 
down plants all over this country and foreclosed on 
millions of homes. It is they who used the techno-
logical revolution as a weapon, to drive down 
wages and destroy millions of jobs,” 
Dores said.
 
Washington’s ‘hate China’ campaign
 
“Washington raises several phony issues in its ‘hate 
China’ campaign. One is the alleged persecution of
 the Uighur people in Xinjiang Province. There’s 
nothing but hypocrisy here,” the analyst said.
 
“If this claim were true - and I’ve seen no reliable evidence
 that it is - Washington would be the last to care. The US 
leads the world in mass incarceration and murder 
by police,” he noted.
 
“According to the Equal Justice Initiative... ‘Millions of 
Americans are incarcerated in overcrowded, violent, 
and inhumane jails and prisons.. that do not provide 
treatment, education, or rehabilitation.' A majority 
are from the oppressed Black, Latin and Native 
nations... targeted by the police,” he said.
 
“Among the incarcerated are dozens of political 
prisoners, such as Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard 
Peltier and Jamil Abdullah Al Amin, who have 
spent decades behind bars on framed-up 
charges,” he stated.
 
“Last year’s Black Lives Matter uprising..... highlighted 
the extent of racist police murder in the US. Between 
1980 and 2018, the US police killed more than 30,000 
people. Half of those killings were misclassified,
according to a study published in the Lancet 
medical journal,” he said.
 
US supports ‘ethnic cleansing and 
murder of Palestinian people’
 
“We also can't forget that Washington not only supports
but subsidizes --- the ethnic cleansing and murder of 
Palestinian people --- by the racist state of Israel,
including the mass imprisonment of 2 million
people in the giant concentration camp 
called the Gaza Strip. The US also has 
no problem with the oppression of 
the majority Muslim people of 
Kashmir, by the Indian
state,” 
Dores noted.
 
“The US accuses China of stealing ‘intellectual property,’ 
a twisted concept indeed. Perhaps the West should pay 
China for inventing paper, iron smelting, the seed drill,
 the compass, rockets, gunpowder and other 
innovations... that made its economic 
development possible,” he said.
 
“There is the accusation of currency manipulation. But 
Washington... has flooded the world with devalued 
dollars ever since the Nixon administration took 
the dollar off the gold standard in the 1970s. 
The US has long used the dollar as an 
instrument of financial warfare,” 
he said.
 
Why is the US Navy in the South China Sea?
 
“And there is the issue of ‘free navigation’ in the South 
China Sea. Which raises the question, what is the US 
Seventh Fleet doing in the South China Sea anyway? 
For that matter, why is the US Fifth Fleet off the 
coast of Iran and the US Fourth Fleet off the 
coast of Venezuela,” Dores said.
 
“Every year, ships carry $3.4 trillion worth of goods 
through the South China Sea. Most of that is 
bound to and from China,” he said.
 
“The PRC has no interest in stopping that commerce. 
It does have an interest in keeping US warships 
away from its coast and ports,” he said.
 
“For the past seven years, the US Navy has helped Saudi 
Arabia impose a naval blockade that is starving the 
children of Yemen. US sanctions, backed by the 
US Navy, are the main obstacle to commerce 
between nations in the world today,”
 he said.
 
“Instead of new CIA mission centres, military bases and 
fleets of warships and warplanes all over the world, the
 US should do what China does: Invest in schools, 
health care, housing, railroads and renewable 
energy. Bring all the ships, planes, troops 
and spies home. The world would be a
 much better and safer place,” 
he concluded.
 
 

Sa’dollah Zarei

 
Iran won’t let US, Turkey, Israel 
create crisis in Caucasus
Sunday, October 3rd,
11:51am (PressTV)
by Sa’dollah Zarei
 
The fact of the matter is, that if there is no more time for
 preventing a conspiracy from taking shape... there is 
still time to thwart the conspiracy that has formed.
 Here are some points with regards to this issue:
 
1) What the US, the Zionist regime, the governments of 
Turkey and Azerbaijan, and the West in general, are
 pursuing in the regions north of Iran is, firstly,
reaction to the great achievements of the
Islamic Republic and the resistance front.
 
When the criminal Zionist regime refers to the Republic of
 Azerbaijan as “Lebanon of Israel,” it means that there is 
a “Lebanon of resistance” that has foiled any Israeli
 conspiracy over the past forty years and turned
 into a major crisis for the occupying regime.
 
Why is a front led by the US, Zionist regime, Turkey and
 Azerbaijan, talking about launching a pan-Turan move
-ment here? Because a powerful religious movement 
has, for more than 40 years, disrupted the plots of 
colonialists and criminals. So, it is quite clear
that
 the enemy, although very hardworking,
is in a 
state of “passivity.”
 
Here is another important question: will this evil conspiracy
 ever yield any result? The answer is that there is a serious
 antidote to prevent the realization of this tension-making 
scheme, and if it enters the scene, it will definitely
 thwart the plan, as it has happened so far.
 
2) Some people make a mistake here and say that the Syunik 
agreement with North Karabakh... is a matter that concerns 
the governments of Azerbaijan and Armenia and that Iran’s
 objection to it is not a matter of concern. They argue that
 the implementation of the agreement is to the detriment 
of Iran’s regional situation, but it is a natural 
consequence and thus does not create a
 right for Iran to legitimize its opposition.
 
The answer is clear; This is not an agreement between the 
two countries on a disputed region, but one on creating a
 region meant to undermine the security, political and 
economic position of a third country.
 
While acknowledging their military and political failure, in
 Afghanistan, the Americans explicitly speak of pursuing 
a proxy war model to make up for their defeat. Shortly 
afterwards, it becomes known that they had sent a 
signal to Azerbaijan to launch and attack and a 
signal to Armenia to, in turn, show tolerance 
and accept the post-war reality, and at the 
same time, following the end of a recent 
44-day Karabakh war, the US stated
 that they 'support' the agreements 
reached between Azerbaijan and
 Armenia. All this suggests that 
the US has been standing
behind this war 
and the
situation
 that ensued.
 
Simultaneously, the Azerbaijani government announced
 the widespread use of Israeli attack drones in the war, 
and the Armenian army called the UAVs the main 
reason for its heavy casualties in the war. This 
means that it was an American-Israeli war.
 
Everyone knows, that the administration of Armenian 
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is a Christian govern-
ment dependent on the West, but it's interesting that 
in this war, the United States and Israel destroyed
the
 forces and facilities belonging to a pro-West 
Christian administration, and supported a 
Muslim government instead! Isn’t that
 a telltale sign?
 
The question is, what kind of “proxy war” US officials 
were talking about in the course of their withdrawal 
from Afghanistan? Was it possible for the US to 
start such a war in Afghanistan?  Which forces
could be used by the US to launch a proxy war
in Afghanistan? Could the US bring the Taliban
- which was taking power - into a proxy war?
Proxy war with whom? The answer is no.
 
Was the Afghan army able to enter a proxy war? The 
answer's clear. Was the army that was not even able 
to defend Kabul for an hour, against the Taliban — 
which took control of the capital without firing a 
single shot — ready to enter a proxy war? 
Could the old mujahedeen forces.. serve 
as the proxies of the American war? The 
answer is clear. The old forces, besides 
having an anti-American spirit...  have
currently no military capability. Could
the USA... create a ''proxy force'' in 
Afghanistan, in the medium term,
with the Taliban et al present on
the scene? The answer to this 
question is also, no. This is 
because...  for at least the 
next 50 years... US crimes
will be in front of the eyes 
of the Afghan people, and
the prospect for any kind 
of Afghan-American,
cooperation...
 is bleak.
 
So, what did the Americans mean by a proxy war? In fact,
 the Americans wanted a proxy war where there was a
 fertile ground... and the required strength. From the 
American point of view, the “ethnicity” factor must 
be emphasized and turned into a winning weapon 
against anti-American revolutionary uprisings. 

The Americans have long focused on the 
model of racism and pan-Turanism...  in
 the case of this region, and considered 
them as “a possible solution,” or more 
accurately, the last “remaining arrow,”
 and pinned their hopes on it.
 
Therefore, the prominent role of this tendency, in the
 developments in the north, and its overlapping in the
 Caucasus, besides the intention to highlight the anti
Iranian and anti-Islamic edges in the rhetoric of the 
officials of these countries, tell us that we are 
facing a “semi-hard” proxy war.
 
When Azeri President Ilham Aliyev speaks openly in an
 interview about the widespread presence of Israeli 
forces and equipment in the Caucasus, and the 
resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis, he
 is, in fact, blowing the lid off a proxy war.
 
3) Saudi Arabia’s measures are yet another issue that
is
 indicative of the proxy war in the developments 
unfolding in Iran’s northwestern frontiers, on 
the one side, and its scale, on the other. The
 Saudis have explicitly said that they are 
working to launch a 24-hour television 
network for the Turkish region of the 
Caucasus called “Turk national.” 
 
Why is the Saudi regime in the Caucasus trying to launch
 such a TV network? The people in this region are neither
 Arabs nor Sunnis in order for them to be the audience of 
a Sunni Arab country. At the same time, it is obvious
that 
this decision cannot be implemented without
the 
consent and cooperation of the governments
in
 the region.
 
4) Naturally, on this front, Iran can't remain silent and turn 
a blind eye to the dimensions and consequences of the 
action that being along its borders; therefore, it has to
 react, but what is the due reaction? There is no doubt 
that military conflict & dragging Iran into the military
 arena is a well-known policy of the American front.

On
 the other hand... we know that what is intended for
the
 Caucasus region is not even a full-fledged military 
war, let alone a regional and multilateral war. We 
are thus not talking about a war in the sense
 that it is perceived. We are talking about 
actions that disturb the peace of this 
region and the interests of the 
powers around it.
 
Isn’t it true... that the Azerbaijani government says Israeli 
drones and forces have been involved in the recent war 
between the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the Republic of
 Armenia? Isn’t it true that the Israelis explicitly referred
 to the Republic of Azerbaijan... as “Lebanon of Israel”? 
Since there are talks about the formation of a definite 
security threat against the Islamic Republic, Iran has
 the right to dismantle and confront the centre of 
conspiracy against itself, without coordination 
with any place or individual. 
 
This type of Iranian confrontation is not so incomprehensible
 to Zionists. Interestingly, an Israeli institution wrote a few
 days ago: “Iran may want to retaliate against Israeli attacks
 in Syria in Azerbaijan.” The regime is attacking areas in 
Syria under the false pretext that Syria has become a 
base for the presence of Iranian military personnel. 
The Israeli institute asks what problem would arise
 if Iran attacked a base in Azerbaijan, where Israeli 
force are possibly present?
 
Of course, Iran knows very well how to use developments
to the detriment of its enemies. The Islamic Republic will 
naturally begin with negotiations, to fraternally resolve 
the issue between neighbours on Iran’s northwestern
border. Over the past 2 decades, the United States, 
Turkey, and the Zionist regime have faced ultimate 
defeat in any sedition that they incited and gotten 
out of the situation while fraught with humiliation. 

They are inciting sedition while they do not have
 the power to tolerate and manage the war. If 
these acts of sedition are not put aside, they
 will face defeat, thanks to Iran’s measures.
 
(The views expressed in this article.... do 
not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)


Boris Malagurski

It’s time for NATO to leave Kosovo
 before it does any more damage
October 2nd, 10:36am (RT)
 
By Boris Malagurski, a Serbian Canadian documentary
film director, known for “The Weight of Chains”, 
enlisted in the catalogue of the Library of 
Congress, whose work has been show-
cased on international festivals... 
including Raindance in London. 
Follow Boris on Twitter @malagurski
 
Just as it all ended badly for the West’s military interventions 
in Vietnam and Afghanistan, so it will in Kosovo. NATO has 
overstepped its mandate, overplayed its hand, and 
overstayed its welcome.
 
As the last US military helicopters were leaving Kabul, 
Afghanistan, many, including myself, emphasized the 
similarities with America’s embarrassment in Saigon, 
South Vietnam – but one parallel that few dared to 
draw, was with Kosovo.
 
When I merely asked “Is Kosovo next?” on Twitter, it 
sent Albanian media outlets into a frenzy. Kosovo’s
 Albanian majority celebrates the NATO troops as 
saviours – NATO bombed Serbia, to take away 
control of its Southern province of Kosovo in 
1999. Since then, NATO has been sponsoring 
a nation-building project... that seemed to
have 
culminated in 2008, when Kosovo’s 
provisional authorities declared 
independence from Serbia.
 
It wasn’t an ‘end of history’ moment. Serbia and much of 
the world didn’t recognize Kosovo as an independent 
country, and Kosovo itself remained heavily 
dependent on Western aid... and military 
support. Most Albanian politicians are 
aware of this and they are highly 
obedient with regards to NATO, 
whose KFOR troops are
 ‘keeping the peace’ 
in Kosovo.
 
However, NATO has overstepped its mandate. UN Security 
Council Resolution 1244, which put an end to NATO’s war 
with Yugoslavia, guarantees Serbia’s sovereignty over 
Kosovo, while NATO has pushed for an independent 
Kosovo from day one of their occupation. The 
resolution also called for... the return of an 
agreed number of Yugoslav and Serbian 
personnel to maintain a presence at 
significant sites and key border 
crossings....  NATO has never 
allowed this to happen. The 
last Serbian prime minister 
who called for this agree-
ment to be honored, was 
assassinated in 2003,
little over a month
after his request.
 
On the other hand, what are the results of NATO’s nation
 building in Kosovo? Close to a 30% unemployment rate. 
One of the poorest areas of Europe...  with as much as 
45% of the population living below the official poverty
 line, and 17% being extremely poor. Former Kosovo 
Liberation Army terrorists, some accused of 
trafficking weapons and human organs, 
replaced their military uniforms with 
politicians’ suits and are governing 
the entity. The previous president 
of Kosovo, nicknamed ‘The Snake’
...is currently being tried for war 
crimes, and crimes against 
humanity, at The Hague. 
 
He’s the one who unveiled the Bill Clinton statue in 
Kosovo’s capital. Bill then came to celebrate with 
‘The Snake’.
 
Kosovo’s recent license plate row with Serbia was just 
the latest example of a leadership in Kosovo incapable 
of dealing with real issues, but rather... going into 
conflict... to cover its incompetence. Instead of 
negotiating with Belgrade, Kosovo unilaterally
 used force --- to implement the removal of 
Serbian license plates. And all that NATO 
was willing to contribute to deescalate 
the tensions... was to offer its KFOR 
troops, to replace Kosovo’s special 
unit, without even trying to resolve
 the essence of the dispute. What
 is NATO still doing in Kosovo?
 
Probably the same thing it was doing in Afghanistan. 
Hoping a bad decision to go in, will eventually pay 
off somehow. But it won’t. It didn’t in Vietnam, it 
didn’t in Afghanistan, and it won’t in Kosovo. 
So it’s time for NATO to start packing 
its bags.
 
The statements, views and opinions expressed 
in this column, are solely those of the author, 
& don't, necessarily, represent those of RT.
 
 

 Iqbal Jassat

“Normalization": Betrayal of
Palestine
 by Arab despots
no easy road
by Iqbal Jassat
October 1st, 11am (PressTV)
 
Pinning Palestinians down while applying harsh 
measures of violent repression -- accompanied 
by a fanatical settler movement of arch-racists
 given free reign to attack and plunder -- is a 
notorious game Israel has elevated to a 
daily ritual.
 
In fact the routine of inflicting war crimes has all 
the hallmarks of a rogue regime entirely caught 
up in a misplaced belief --- that to engage in
ethnic 
cleansing, is a religious obligation.
 
Conflating Judaism with a racist political ideology 
of Zionism has been part of a strategy designed 
to deceive, distort and divert. It has its roots in 
the first Zionist congress held on the eve of 
the 19th century.
 
That this is well documented and widely known is
 not in dispute. Indeed... awareness of Zionism's 
goal to dismember and dislodge Palestinians 
from their centuries old homeland and 
forcibly impose thereon a foreign
 entity known as Israel, has 
always been a bedrock
 for resistance.
 
Israel has thus always been considered an enemy 
thrust upon a native population through the most 
horrific forms of terrorism. The memories of Deir 
Yassin remind the world of bloody massacres 
committed by Zionist terrorists which didn't 
spare hundreds of villages... to 
colonize Palestine.
 
That more than seven decades later the expansionist 
goals of Zionism are still being pursued at great 
human cost to successive generations of the 
indigenous Palestinian population, is 
reflected in daily atrocities.
 
None of these facts, as attested to by historians, as 
well as organs of the United Nations, are contested. 
Though of course Israel and supporters of it seek 
to distort and malign commentators who speak 
truth to power, as anti-Semitic.
 
Yet against this background of terrorism and current 
conditions siege, occupation, killings and mass 
imprisonment - recorded and broadcast via 
mainstream media for all the world to 
witness - it is bizarre that a handful 
of Arab regimes, have broken rank 
with Palestine's freedom struggle.
 
And at a time when even Haaretz describes 
the atrocities by Israel, as a pogrom:
 
"Residents of the Palestinian communities in the south-
eastern West Bank have experience of settler attacks
 - when they graze their flocks, work their fields, or 
even have a picnic on their own land....  But they 
cannot recall an attack like the one experienced 
Tuesday -- by the small communities of Khirbat 
al-Mufkara, al-Rakiz and al-Tuwani. On Simhat 
Torah, dozens of young Jews, most of them 
masked, conducted what can only be 
described as a pogrom."
 
The treachery associated with what has become known 
as "normalization" is an outrageous manifestation of 
betrayal and collaboration. Limited to the UAE, 
Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco,.. these regimes 
have in effect confessed that the protection 
of their shaky thrones... counts for more... 
than legitimate rights of the Palestinians.
 
As unelected self-imposed despots fearful of democratic 
values, they have bargained that "normalization" with 
the usurper of Palestine will "guarantee" safety and 
protection for them. In other words, just as Egypt 
has done, these oligarchs have outsourced their 
intelligence networks and security apparatus
to
 Israel, knowing full well that in doing so,
they 
have abandoned Palestine.
 
Though the abnormality of the implicit recognition of an 
illegal colonial enterprise, has been in sharp contrast
 to countless Arab League resolutions... the deal of 
"normalization" pushed by Trump and vigorously 
backed by the Biden administration... has
exposed 
these leaders - as surrogates
of 
western imperialism.
 
The case of Bahrain's role in the "Abraham Accords" 
reveals the soft underbelly of Arab dictatorships. 

Besides being financially dependent on its 
neighbours especially the UAE and Saudi 
Arabia, Bahrain’s alliance with Israel is 
designed to entrench its power and 
crush any resistance to author-
itarianism or efforts towards 
freedom and democracy.
 
In 2011, during the onset of the Arab Spring uprisings, 
Saudi Arabia sent troops to Bahrain to suppress anti
-government protests. This trend continues today 
by Israel --- equally committed to maintaining the 
status quo, and preventing the success of any 
popular uprisings.
 
In this context, one may justifiably condemn
Bahrain’s
 gross insensitivity and abject
abdication of 
Palestine's freedom
struggle...
 as treacherous.
 
Showcasing Israeli war criminal Lapid’s visit to Manama 
where he is set to open the embassy flying Israel's flag
 is utterly outrageous. This follows the opening of a 
Zionist embassy in Abu Dhabi, and will likely be 
establishing one in Rabat. Sudan thus far has 
reportedly said that it has no plans yet to
 open an embassy in Khartoum.
 
Not surprising therefore that the Arab street across these 
capitals have vowed to end "normalization". The iron-
fisted grip held by Arab despots notwithstanding, 
human rights movements (many banned and 
leaders exiled) have declared their outright 
rejection of America's much-vaunted 
Abraham Accords.
 
Stirrings in Sudan are becoming more vocal despite 
Khartoum's attempts to silence critics. In Bahrain 
the main opposition group, al-Wefaq National
 Islamic Society declared Lapid’s trip as a 
"threat", saying, "This is provocative 
news and this trip is completely
 rejected, and he (Lapid) should
 not set foot on Bahraini soil."
 
Their message is clear: "Any (Israeli)
presence
 on Bahraini soil ---
means incitement."
 
Iqbal Jassat is an executive at the Johannesburg-
based Media Review Network (MRN), a socio-
political advocacy group, that concerns 
itself with media and political analysis.
 
(The views expressed in this article do 
not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)
 
 

Paul Antonopoulos

Greece And France Take First Step 
Towards European Independence
 Following AUKUS Debacle
September 28th (South Front)
by Paul Antonopoulos, 
independent geopolitical analyst


Signing of Franco-Greek Agreement is the 
beginning of supplanting NATO in Europe.


Of the 30 NATO member states, Greece is one of the few 
to spend well over 2% of its GDP on defense, as agreed 
upon by NATO Defence Ministers, in 2006. However, 
Greece’s high spending (relative to GDP), is not 
because it is positioning itself as a buffed-up 
military state opposed to Russia, as per the 
aims of NATO, but rather, to defend itself 
against the threats of another NATO 
member, Turkey. 


With NATO consistently downplaying Turkish aggression 
against Greece and the new AUKUS pact creating 
distrust between the Anglosphere and the 
Europeans... Greece has ensured new 
extra security assurances against 
its long-time enemy.


Greece’s strengthened partnership with France highlights 
that the immediate consequences of the AUKUS alliance 
are already being felt, as the two countries are making 
the first serious steps towards a Europe independent 
of Washington.


Alexis Papahelas, one of Greece’s top journalists, explained 
that the Franco-Greek security pact is Macron’s “revenge” 
against the Americans as it will strengthen European 
autonomy. He also confirmed persistent rumours 
that a defensive pact between France and 
Greece was almost reached last year, 
but ultimately broke down at the 
last minute for “unknown
 reasons.”


To put the situation in context, Greece for a year and a half-
received bids from six countries, including France, the U.S.
and UK for brand new navy frigates. The finalization of a 
deal was continuously delayed... due to Greece’s 
insistence, that a frigate purchase must
include 
a defense agreement. 


Greece signed its 12-month Mutual Defense Cooperation 
Agreement (MDCA) with the US last year, but ultimately 
did not decide on which frigate bid to accept. With 
negotiations for a Franco-Greek defence pact 
last year stalling, Athens ultimately decided 
to sign the MDCA... with Washington. This 
was rumored to be partially motivated 
as part of 'negotiations' to pressure 
the French to accept Greek terms. 


However, with the sudden emergence of AUKUS, European 
trust in the Anglosphere quickly diminished, and thus 
galvanized Franco-Greek discussions on European
independence. And finally, a deal to purchase 
three brand-new French Belharra-class 
frigates, was stricken.


For his part, Mitsotakis said on Tuesday morning at the 
signing of the agreement that:-  “It is an historic day
for 
Greece and France. Today’s development is an 
initiative that responds to the demands of the 
times on our continent. It paves the way for 
an autonomous and strong Europe of the 
future. Whether there is a timetable for 
creating a European army: the debate 
on European military autonomy, 
evolves. Options such as this 
corporate defense partner-
ship, move to this central 
strategic choice.”


Effectively, Greece and France are advocating for a pan-
European military that would likely drive out NATO, as 
the premier defensive pact in Europe.


Another demonstration that this pact is aimed at 
supplanting NATO... is its careful wording. 
Although Turkey was not mentioned 
explicitly, there is little doubt that 
part of the motivation for the 
Franco-Greek defense pact 
was Turkey’s unilateral 
aggression in the 
Mediterranean.


Even just minutes after the signing of the Franco-Greek 
agreement, former Dutch diplomat Fons Stoelinga 
tweeted: “EU autonomy in security and defense. 
NATO still does not address the problem of 
NATO-member Turkey destabilizing the 
whole Eastern Mediterranean region. 
France and Greece now react and 
signed a security bilateral pact.”


The mutual defense assistance clause of the agreement 
ensures that if Greece or France is attacked on its 
territory, the other will come to assist, even if the 
attacking country is part of other alliances..... 
including NATO. This is an obvious message 
directed towards Turkey, a NATO member 
that on a daily basis violates Greek air-
space and threatens to invade its 
Aegean islands. 


These violations and threats receive no repercussions from 
NATO as individual members are unwilling to risk their 
economic relations with the country, whilst many 
NATO leaders still believe that Turkey is a
 bulwark against Russia.


France for most of its modern history, but especially 
galvanized under President Emmanuel Macron.. had 
an ambition of creating a more independent Europe.

 The European experience under former U.S. 
President, Donald Trump, and the recent 
snub from President Joe Biden, with the 
AUKUS debacle... has only increased
the 
urgency of achieving European 
independence from Washington.


 Despite this ambition, as well as warning Europe that it will
 become secondary in world affairs, if it does not become 
independent, it appears that France can finally kickstart
 its project alongside Greece.


Achieving EU unity is a difficult prospect, because minnow 
states like Lithuania prioritize the interests of Washington 
rather than the continent, but as Paris and Athens have 
shown --- they will move ahead, in changing the geo-
political balance in the Mediterranean and will not
 wait, while member states continuously bicker 
amongst themselves on foreign policy issues. 


If France and Greece can create strong foundations for an 
independent Europe, it will only be inevitable before more
 EU member states become interested in also being 
integrated into a continental structure that is
 independent of transatlantic alliances.
 
 

Eric Zuesse

 
Why did the Taliban win against
 the Americans in Afghanistan?
by Eric Zuesse
August 21st, 2021 
 
Why did the communists win 
against the Americans in Vietnam?
 
Why did the communists win 
against the capitalists in the 
Russian Revolution?
 
Why did the American Revolutionists 
win against the British Empire?
 
I shall here propose an answer to all of them, because
that 
answer applies to all such cases, as I'll explain:
 
When an imperialistic society is as corrupt as Britain has
been 
since the creation of the British East India Company
in 1600, 
and as America has been since the end of World
War II in 
1945, with its takeover and control by the MIC
(military-
industrial complex), which has inevitably
produced the 
cancerous growth of America’s
permanent-warfare 
state, what, then, is the
reason to continue living by 
staying merely
as a colonist or a vassal-regime 
(or even
as the imperialist regime itself), 
which 
means, when the imposed regime is
so 
profoundly corrupt --- as any
imperialist power necessarily
is --- to accept 
such
corruption, as this? 


There’s something that is worse than dying... and it is to continue 
living under a regime that one utterly despises. That’s a dragged
-out death, instead of a quick death. A regime which is as 
corrupt as any imperialistic regime inevitably is, will be
 intolerable for a significant number of the residents in 
any one of its vassal-nations or “colonies.” Death, for 
them, isn’t such a bad choice, if it means that they'll 
go down fighting to overthrow it. They are driven by
 the motivation, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” 
 
This is a motivation that few, if any, of the imperialistic regime’s hired
 soldiers (regardless of whether conscripted or not) can match. And
 when they are foreigners who are fighting on a foreign soil (instead 
of locals who are defending their land’s own locally determined 
rulers), they especially and certainly cannot match such 
motivation, because only the locals can be fighting with 
a patriotic spirit. This is an intrinsic weakness in any  
empire. And imperialist leaders tend to ignore it, 
because they don’t want to understand how 
repulsive they are, to virtually anyone but
 their own boot-lickers.
 
Ultimately, the demoralization of a hired soldier’s continuing to place
 his very existence in jeopardy so as to continue the war to enslave 
and control the resisting local subject-population will mount high
 enough to produce self-contempt, desertion, and sometimes 
even suicide, in the oppressing power’s forces, especially if
t
hat’s a foreign power.

No longer will the rationalizations(that
 “We are protecting
the residents here”) be able to continue 
fooling the
invading-force’s soldier, and the imposed stooge
-
regime’s soldier. They both (the foreign regime,
and its 
imposed local stooge-government or
colony) are there 
really, to control the local
subject-population; 
and, ultimately, enough
of the oppressor’s forces will 
know this to
cause the imposed stooge-
government,
to be conquered by those 
indigenous
residents there - 
people who will be
recalled 
as heroes, by the other
residents in that land.

This is an 
advantage that any revolutionists 
have, against the imposed regime.
 
This is the real  meaning of “martyrs,” in the deeper sense than 
merely of a religious type — it is instead of the patriotic type; it
 concerns the land -- and not necessarily any religion -- such as 
Christianity, Islam, or Marxism. Their loyalty is to Afghanistan; 
or it is to Vietnam; or it is to Russia; or it is to China; or (before
America became imperialistic) it was to America. And so forth.
It is to the local land, not to any dictators. It is to the country 
that the foreign invader’s forces are occupying. The 
invader’s forces and their imposed stooge-regimes 
can’t match this motivation.
 
Similarly, when the American invaders were conquered by the 
residents of Vietnam, the winners were the Vietnamese, not 
really the communists; and, in fact, the Marxist philosophy 
(or ‘religion’) subsequently has waned there. America, in 
Vietnam, as in Afghanistan, was the invader, in a land 
which had not invaded their own. 
 
That similar situation exists in Afghanistan. The Sauds had invaded
 America on 9/11, with the assistance of G.W. Bush, Condoleezza 
Rice, and perhaps others in the Administration. And so, the U.S.
-imposed soldiers in Afghanistan couldn’t even possibly have 
been fighting against Afghanistan for any authentically 
patriotic real (factually true) reason, at all. Therefore, 
lies were constantly needed by the U.S. regime, not 
only against Iraq, but even against Afghanistan. 
 
(Furthermore, if Bush’s objective had really been to identify whom 
and how was actually behind the 9/11 attacks, then he would have
 pursued that at the U.N. Security Council and would have gotten
 unanimous backing for it, which would quickly have isolated 
and led to the destruction of Al Qaeda. It could all have been 
done without any war between nations, and also fully in 
accord with international law. To the extent that 9/11
was 
state-sponsored terrorism, it was actually being 
sponsored by the Governments of the U.S. and 
Saudi Arabia. 
 
George W. Bush, who was buddy-close with the Sauds, used 9/11 as 
an excuse to trash both the U.S. Constitution and international law 
so as to hoist yet higher his own tyranny, his own power - not only
internationally but also.. in his own nation. An imperialist would, 
of course, like to trash both, and to hoist his personal power as 
high as possible. And GWB had the boldness to do it, and -
 because America has been imperialistic ever since 1945
 (i.e., international aggressions... have been America’s 
culture since 1945) — he has been able to enjoy the 
success of getting away with doing it. However, 
everyone else, and especially outside
America’s 
MIC, suffers from it.
 
What have the mere soldiers of invading and occupying 
imperialist powers actually earned by having placed
 their own lives at risk? Maybe a tombstone back 
home, in the country that had invaded and 
occupied that colony.
 
By contrast, even if a defending soldier has died as a 
hero among the locals in a failed revolution against 
the imperialist power, any tombstone will be 
unnecessary to be that person’s memorial, 
because the true memorial is in the heart, 
and in the mind, of the locals there, not 
in anything that is in the land of the 
invading foreign power.
 
And, so, I propose that the answer, to the question here, is that, 
whereas America’s Founders were waging war as heroes 
(because their war was just), today’s Americans are 
waging war as villains (because our wars are unjust 
- imperialistic aggressions, instead of heroic 
defenses against an aggressor). Between 
America’s founding and the present time, 
America has switched from doing war 
against military occupiers, to doing 
war as military occupiers.
 
And this, I maintain, is the reason why: “The Taliban’s 80,000 
troops have retaken Afghanistan with cities falling like 
dominos while the 300,000-strong government forces,
 better equipped and trained, mostly melted and 
surrendered with no will to fight.”
 
What today’s Taliban are to today’s Afghanistan is therefore what
 the 1776 American Revolutionists were to the America of that era. 
It’s not the ideology; it is the love of that land there, which has 
motivated the residents’ forces to victory, against the forces 
of the invading-and-occupying foreign power. This can 
happen in any land, at any time.
 
America went into Vietnam focused on the “body counts.” That’s 
how stupid America’s imperialistic leaders were, back then. The 
only motivation they really understood was fear: “body counts.” 
They’ve evidently learned nothing since. That is how corrupt 
America is.
 
Right now in America, the ‘debate’ about Afghanistan is about Joe 
Biden, who is basically irrelevant. He wanted to end America’s 
military occupation there, just as Trump did, and just as 
Obama did. He acted on it, whereas they did not — they 
didn’t want to be accused by their political opponents 
of having ‘lost Afghanistan on their watch’, but Biden 
was evidently willing to risk it. 
 
His only failure in the matter is that he kept lying to the American 
people (and probably also to himself) about how chaotic the 
evacuation would inevitably be, and about how collapsed 
Afghanistan is, and has been, ever since the Soviets 
invaded there in 1979. 
 
Throughout America’s imperialistic era, the U.S. Government has
 routinely been lying to the American people. Imperialism isn’t as 
bad for the imperialistic nation’s public as it is for the conquered
land’s people, but it is very bad, even for them. The only people 
who benefit from it are the billionaires, who control companies 
such as Lockheed Martin, and ExxonMobil, and Amazon. 
Those are the people (the owners), who hire the leading 
politicians, including the members of Congress, and the 
Presidents, to spread their empire, and their control. 
 
They also hire the ‘journalists’ who shape their nation’s public 
to support these invasions and military occupations. The 
Government officials of an imperialistic regime represent 
not the nation’s public - but its aristocracy - who hire and 
appoint millions of the rest, the many agents (employees,
 etc.) of the few billionaires. The billionaires really control 
their country. After all: America is a thoroughly corrupt 
country, just as any imperialistic country is. (All 
imperialistic countries, are controlled by their 
aristocracy. And every aristocracy is corrupt.) 
 
The public in Afghanistan have long known this fact about America -
 that it is corrupt. And this is the main reason why the Taliban now 
rule that country. They represent that land. Not this land. It’s a 
different culture, and a different place. To most Afghans, 
America represents only corruption. There is nothing 
unique about what is now happening in Afghanistan. 
It has been happening for thousands of years, and 
it’s just replaying an ancient script, but in that 
particular location.
 
However, instead, the U.S.-and-allied media are focusing on Biden’s 
bit part (which was always in a supporting role) in America’s 
invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. So, probably 
nothing will be learned from America’s invasion and 
occupation of Afghanistan, just as nothing was 
learned from America’s invasion & occupation 
of Iraq, and from America’s invasion and 
occupation of Vietnam, and from the 
many other such post-WW-II 
American foreign disasters. 
 
For America’s billionaires, these have all been great successes 
(very profitable); and, so, probably nothing that’s useful to the 
American people will be learned from history; and, instead, 
the myths will continue that have caused “The Military” to
 be either the highest-respected or the second-highest-
respected of all of the 19 named institutions in
America
 - the world’s permanent-
warfare state. 
 
The American military wastes the most money and the most blood 
of any institution in America, but Americans nonetheless respect it 
enormously. That, too, is a mark of an imperialistic country. The 
way to control a public is to sustain the myths. U.S.-and-allied 
billionaires make sure that it is done - however much it costs.
 
As regards the future of Afghanistan itself: On August the 19th, 
the most reliable geostrategic reporter and analyst, Alexander 
Mercouris, headlined at The Duran, “US Freezes Afghanistan 
Reserves, Threatens Economic Crisis. Russia Works to 
Establish New Government”, and he explained why the 
Taliban will either cooperate with Russia, China, and 
Iran, or else will degenerate yet further into a failed 
state, especially because the U.S. and its allies will 
do everything possible to strangle the fully looted 
Government of Afghanistan — the new Islamic 
Emirate of Afghanistan. So: even after the US 
and its allies have all left that land, the war 
against the people there will continue, in 
full force, from the same people, though 
with different methods.
 
PS: The philosopher Zizek headlined at RT on August 20th, “The
 true enemy for Islamists is not the West’s neocolonialism or 
military aggression, but our ‘immoral’ culture”, and he said 
“it was not neocons who boosted Islamic fundamentalism, 
this fundamentalism grew up in a reaction to the influence 
of Western liberal secularism and individualism.” 
 
He did not understand that though religious fundamentalists 
(including the Taliban) focus especially on sexual and gender 
issues, a person didn’t have to be at all religious in order to 
consider the financial and economic corruption of the
 imperialists and of their stooges to be disgusting. 
 
Americans didn’t invade & occupy Afghanistan, in order to 
spread “liberal secularism and individualism,” but in order 
for US-and-allied billionaires to expand their wealth, their 
empire, and their global control. Even if the Taliban and 
other religious persons might object only (or even just 
mainly) to the sexual and gender issues... a broader 
segment of the Afghan population were repelled by
 the rampant financial and economic corruption of 
the imperialists, and of their stooge-rulers. 
 
This was not a defeat for “secularism and individualism.” 
It was a rejection of imperialism: a rejection of it even
by 
people who don’t understand what “imperialism”
means.
 
(Source: Strategic Culture Foundation)


 Iqbal Jassat

 
Israel is committed to
 aggressively pursuing 
'Zionist colonialism', 
says analyst
August 14th, 9:38am (PressTV)
 
A political commentator says Israel is relentlessly 
following its "Zionist colonialism" in the occupied 
Palestinian territories, and the evacuation orders 
handed out to indigenous Palestinian families
in the West Bank and 
Jerusalem al-Quds,
are in line 
with the regime’s land 
expropriation policies: to build
more illegal 
settler homes.
 
“Israel aggressively pursues Zionist colonialism, which
 has been the bedrock of the regime’s illegal ethnic-
cleansing agenda for the last seventy or more 
years,” Iqbal Jassat, an executive member 
of Johannesburg-based Media Review 
Network, told Press TV, in an 
exclusive interview 
on Saturday.
 
He lambasted the Tel Aviv regime’s systematic theft of 
Palestinian property as “a reprehensible disregard 
for the inalienable rights of indigenous 
Palestinians to their own lands 
and homes.”
 
“The racist practice of evacuation, is a misleading 
interpretation of forced expulsion, illegal under 
the international law. It is also indicative of 
the Group Areas Act [of 1950], under the 
former apartheid regime of South
 Africa,” Jassat noted.
 
The South African analyst also criticized the United Nations
 and the International Criminal Court (ICC), for their 
“impotence” ...to prevent Israel's unjust and 
blatant violations of international 
conventions and principles.
 
“It also raises serious questions about the inherent biases
 existing within these institutions. These biases prevent 
the exercise of law --- to halt land grabs, home 
demolitions, expulsions and incremental
genocide,” 
he pointed out.
 
Jassat went on to say that Western countries’ decades-long 
guilty conscience has prevented these states from 
criticizing Israel, for its barbaric and brutal 
practices, as such denunciations would 
be treated as anti-Semitic.
 
“The US and its allies in NATO view Israel as a bulwark of 
their interests in the heart of the Muslim world. They,
 therefore, place their so-called security goals 
above injustices against Palestinians,”
 the analyst said.
 
“Moreover, the Arab world is mainly made up of unelected 
despots, from Egypt to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab 
Emirates and Bahrain. Their collective view, pivots 
on the false notion... that their security is tied 
to Israel. That explains the close proximity 
between their notorious intelligence 
services and Israel's Mossad 
and Shin Bet.”
 
Jassat further noted that the controversial normalization
 agreements that several Arab states have struck
with 
Israel, have stifled opposition to the
Tel Aviv 
regime’s colonialist and
expansionist policies.
 
He said the unacceptable betrayal of the Palestinians' 
struggle for liberation from the Israeli occupation,
has even resulted in the regime being granted 
observer status, at the African Union.



Daniel Patrick Welch

Peak hypocrisy: 
US is ''concerned'' 
about China's nukes
by Daniel Patrick Welch
August 7th, 11:45am


US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warns of 
China's nukes, on the anniversary of his own 
country dropping the only one ever.
 
The US empire never disappoints in its endless quest 
to project the behavior of a true sociopath. As with 
Goebbels’ Big Lie (which he stole from the US's
Bernays anyway), the tried-and-true strategy, 
is to attack others, for actions it has itself 
performed on a regular basis. 
 
Hence the whole Russiagate charade about foreign 
interference in sacred elections by a country other
than the US —reigning and uncontested champion 
of regime change campaigns. Now comes Blinken,
the US talking head du jour on the world stage, to
warn Asia about China’s nuclear weapons. Huh?
 
If irony wasn’t dead, Blinken and crew (Winken, Nod 
et al) would track it down and strangle it with their 
bare hands. On August 6th, the State Department 
announced Blinken’s warning... to China’s 
neighbours: THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS 
OWN COUNTRY’S DROPPING OF A 
NUCLEAR BOMB on Hiroshima. 
 
I would say “not to put to fine a point on it,” but it just 
can’t possibly be sharpened any further. Run that 
back, with the reverse tape noise and all.
 
The ONLY country EVER to drop a nuclear bomb on another,
 the United States, chooses the very anniversary of the
first
 of those two genocidal crimes against humanity,
to 
express grave concern about China’s nuclear 
arsenal. I guess you could just drop the mic 
here — there really is so little left to say. 
What comes after tragedy and farce?
 Even Old Man Marx didn’t mention 
a third, though I might venture 
Cynicism Made Flesh?
 
Of course, Blinken--I just can’t stop saying the name… it’s like 
DICK Cheney and COLIN Powell, or that library cop Bookman 
from Seinfeld—Blinken isn’t to blame for the blasphemy of 
rewriting history. He and his cohorts have a generational 
head start on stupid. Seventy-five years of relentless 
assault on Americans’ knowledge of history and 
political consciousness, has left a populace 
with a Hollywood understanding of WWII 
that has almost no relation to reality. 
 
Even Eisenhower knew (and said) that the bombings were of no 
military use. Lost to Americans’ history—but importantly, not 
the world’s—is the cold truth that Truman knew as well and 
didn’t care. Perhaps the meanest, and most small-minded 
of US presidents, he offed a hundred thousand Japanese
in one fell swoop, just to scare the Russkies. And by his 
own admission, never lost a night’s sleep. Brrrrrrrr.
 
But Back to the Future: Blinken’s degenerate idiocy also further 
exposes the infantile disorder of the Lesser Evilists and the rest
of the Harm Reduction menagerie. He is himself, of course, no 
more than a cardboard clown, or more likely made entirely of 
wood, spouting vituperations like a useful ventriloquist’s 
dummy while sitting on the knee of whoever plays Edgar 
Bergen in this cynical farce. The masters who pay 
Blinken, Biden, (O)Bama, Bush and Bacchus
 keep them on a short leash. The sociopaths 
in charge make the real decisions.
 
The notion that “getting back to normal” would yield anything other
 than a smooth return to the endless killing machine was not just 
wishful thinking, but deliberate self-delusion, a lazy and selfish 
need to play pretend and self-soothe while the world burns.
 
Unforgiveable, really. From Iran to Venezuela, Russia, China and
beyond, and with clockwork precision, the Enemies of Humanity
are ramping up war fever, concocting lies & manipulating truth 
and fear like never before. The New York Times’ perversion of 
the Tokyo medal counts, to pretend the US won, is more than
instructive: it is the stock in trade and lifeblood of the 
predator class, honing its exceptionalist rhetoric to 
wield when needed. Dark days ahead.
 
Daniel Patrick Welch is a writer of political commentary and 
analysis. Also a singer and songwriter, he lives and writes 
in Salem, Salem, Massachusetts with his wife. Together
 they run The Greenhouse School. He has traveled 
widely, speaks five languages and studied Russian
 History and Literature at Harvard University.
 
Welch has also appeared as a guest on several TV and radio 
channels to speak on topics of foreign affairs and political 
analysis--around his day job. He can be available for 
interview requests as time and scheduling permit.
 
Despite the price of being outspoken against US foreign policy
 and military adventurism -- which can be steep, in today's
 circumstances -- he believes firmly, as did Rosa
 Luxemburg, that "It will always be the most 
revolutionary act, to tell the truth out loud."
 
Welch wrote this commentary
for the Press TV website.
 
 

Finian Cunningham

Russia-China the Endgame
by Finian Cunningham
July 3rd, 1:41pm (Sputnik)
 
The consolidation of the Russia-China alliance this week 
spells the endgame for Western imperialism and the 
never-ending wars that it spawns.
 
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and China’s leader Xi 
Jinping celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Sino-
Russian Treaty of Friendship, first signed in July 
2001. The hallmark of that historic accord is a 
mutual commitment to peace, prosperity 
and global stability. 
 
As Putin commented, the alliance between Russia and China
 is a vital source of “stability at a time of increasing geo-
political turbulence”. The latter remark is an oblique 
reference to the US-led Western states which are 
driven by ratcheting up antagonism and 
tensions with Moscow and Beijing, 
using all sorts of spurious 
complaints. 
 
The attempt by Washington (whether Republican or Democrat) 
and its Western minions to make trouble with Russia and 
China has become almost frenetic. Step back from the 
daily headlines in Western media and it is glaring just
 how much the agenda has become irrationally 
hostile towards Moscow and Beijing. 
 
Week after week there are unfounded allegations about 
aggression, security threats, cybercrime, interference, 
Covid-19, & so on. It’s like a mad cacophony to wind 
up tensions. Nevertheless, the deranged attitude of 
Western ruling cliques is but the death throes of a 
world order that has reached its expiration. 
 
Russia and China’s partnership has hugely transformative 
geopolitical significance. Both these giant nations straddle
 the continents of Asia and Europe, connecting the Pacific 
with the Atlantic, ranging from the Arctic to the 
Mediterranean. Both are committed to a vision 
of a multipolar world where nations cooperate
 for mutual development. 
 
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) linking Eurasia with 
Africa and the Americas is the vision of the future, and 
Russia is a key partner in implementing that 
ambitious win-win project for global peace
 and prosperity. 
 
This vision stands in stark contrast to the prevailing Western 
capitalist paradigm which operates through dominance, 
control and exploitation for American and European 
profiteering. That kind of centuries-old system 
necessarily involves imperialist conduct ...
whereby the natural resources of foreign 
nations are commandeered by brute 
military force, conflict, subjugation, 
subterfuge, skulduggery and 
other machinations. 
 
The multipolar vision of global relations advocated by Russia 
and China is the nemesis of the Western imperialist system. 
And that explains why the Americans and their European 
vassals make every effort to demonize and distort 
Russia and China. 
 
But the geopolitical potential of Russia and China is 
unstoppable. There is a force of natural justice that 
all nations will inevitably subscribe to as the only 
reasonable, feasible & sustainable way forward.
It’s about people-centered development ...
versus profit-driven disorder.
 
Moreover, the partnership between Russia and China is a 
geographer’s wonder study. Russia is the world’s largest
 national territory by landmass. With over 17 million sq.
 kilometres, it covers 11 time zones out of the world’s 
total of 24. The abundance of natural resources that 
Russia possesses is astounding, from reserves of
 natural gas, oil, metals and minerals, to forestry, 
agriculture and fisheries. It also can boast of 
highly advanced technology in multiple 
sectors. And... it shares a long land 
border with China, for easing trade. 
 
Meanwhile, China has a population of 1.4 billion people, ten 
times that of Russia. With highly advanced technology and 
manufacturing, China is not only a vast market for Russian
 resources, it is also a gateway to the world economy. 
China has already become the world’s biggest 
economy over the United States, according 
to some measures. 
 
The US and Europe are post-industrial economies that are 
also post-peak of their prime. Their “prime” was always 
based on an extractive predatory relationship with the
 rest of the world that was predicated on inflicting 
conflict and poverty on others. 
 
As China and Russia build on their strategic partnership for
 mutual prosperity and peace the upshot will inevitably 
entail the endgame for Western imperial powers,
 which are atrophying from massive inequality,
 indebtedness, moral decadence and 
social decay. 
 
Fortunately, too, and this is crucial, Russia and China have
 military defenses from new generations of hypersonic 
weaponry that make them impregnable against any 
warmongering notions by the United States. A 
failing empire like the US and its Western 
satellites is always a dangerous time, as 
it tries to prevent the inevitable collapse, 
but starting a war with Russia & China
 ...is not an option. 
 
The views & opinions expressed in the article 
do not - necessarily - reflect those of Sputnik.
 

Barry Grossman

Barry Grossman: US, Israel 
Adopting Bullying Tactics 
for ICC War Crimes 
Investigation in 
Palestine
June 30th (FNA)


Barry Grossman is an international lawyer and political 
commentator focused on human rights related issues. 
He has been extensively published, on various legal 
subjects and is a frequent commentator on political 
affairs. He has taught law at the University of 
Melbourne’s Faculty of Law and Monash 
University’s Faculty of Law.
 
Below is the full text of the interview:
 
Q: How do you see the ICC ruling and the
 issue of anti-Semitism raised by Israel? 
 
A: To be sure, Benjamin Netanyahu has himself said that 
“when the ICC investigates Israel for fake war crimes,
 this is pure antisemitism”.
 
There can of course be no doubt that antisemitism is real;
 indeed, every bit as real as Islam-phobia. But the long 
standing ruse of conflating antisemitism with any and 
all criticism of Zionism or Israel, is no longer taken 
seriously, by a growing and very substantial 
minority of people in the wider population.
 
Meanwhile the tactic of tarring everyone who resists Zionism 
or criticises Israel with the antisemitism brush is having the 
unfortunate, though not necessarily unintended 
consequence of discrediting even the most 
genuine efforts to draw attention to those 
people whose speech is, indeed, 
motivated by little more than
 hatred for Jews.
 
Q: There are huge media attacks towards ICC’s probe to
 Israeli war crimes in Palestine. Do you believe the ICC
 can make a correct ruling under this media hegemony?
 
A: Propaganda about the ICC case published by the 
Atlantic World’s Corporate Media Cartel is of course 
preceded by pressure and instructions from think-
tanks, as well as the security/policy making 
apparatus, which are, of course, fully 
infiltrated by individuals promoting 
Zionist agendas.
 
In that regard, both the US and Israel have openly declared 
their hostile intentions towards the ICC and there is already 
clear evidence that they're deploying all their usual tactics, 
including intimidation, extortion, bribery and garden variety 
corruption, to get politicians around the world, lawyers 
involved in making Palestine’s case, and members of 
the ICC to fall into line.
 
That said, if the myriad jurisdiction related technicalities 
raised by Israel can be overcome, I am quite sure the
ICC is capable of reaching what many of us consider 
the correct position regarding ubiquitous war crimes 
and other violations of international law, perpetrated 
by the occupation.
 
The real problem is that the ICC is quite limited in its ability 
to enforce any ruling against responsible individuals and 
Israeli organizations, so long as the key Atlantic World 
nations continue to provide unqualified support for 
the occupation, or, at the very least, to remain 
neutral, in the face of clear evidence of the 
occupation’s crimes.
 
A second very significant strategic issue arises from a 
prevailing political reality which dictates that, in order 
to make a reasonable finding about the occupation’s 
crimes, the ICC will also have to use its authority to 
investigate violations of international law alleged 
against Hamas and other Palestinian groups ---
bearing in mind that the law of armed conflict 
does not concern itself with the order in 
which things played out and any finding
against Palestinian groups will certainly 
receive far more traction, both in the 
international community as well as 
in occupied Palestine, than any 
finding of culpability on the 
part of the occupation.
 
Indeed, from where I sit, I do not see Palestine as 
having much to gain from this process, but it 
does stand to lose no small part of the 
standing in public opinion, which it 
has taken decades to develop, at 
the cost of thousands of 
Palestinian lives.
 
Q: Is it hypocrisy that Israel says Palestine is not 
a sovereign state to have a delegation at ICC?
 
A: Hypocrisy hardly even begins to cover it. No nation 
is in a position to dictate that Palestine is not a 
sovereign nation-state, even if the UN has not 
yet extended Palestine’s observer nation 
status to full membership --- the way it 
quickly recognized Israel’s existence 
as a full member, in 1949.
 
It is also worth remembering that 
31 UN member nations still do 
not recognize Israel.
 
Of course, none of this is relevant to the Palestinian 
delegation’s participation in ICC proceedings 
investigating allegations of war crimes and 
other violations of international law 
committed against Palestinians by 
Israeli nationals & organizations, 
even though Israel is not, itself, 
a party to the ICC treaty.
 
On the other hand, the Palestinian Authority (PA), 
whose statehood and sovereignty has been 
subject to intense dispute across the 
international community...  is a 
signatory to the Rome Statute 
(that is, the ICC Treaty), so it 
would be bizarre, if it was 
not permitted to have a 
delegation present, at
the ICC proceedings.




US Encirclement of China

 
US Encirclement of China:
 A 'Progress' Report
by Brian Berletic 
May 22nd  (The Saker)
 
We post this long-read article in full - 
as the New Eastern Outlook site has
 been down for a number of days.
 
Tensions between Washington and Beijing are not merely
 the recent results of former US President Donald Trump’s
 time in office – but rather, just the latest chapter in US
 efforts to contain China, that stretch back decades.
 
Indeed, US foreign policy has, for decades, admittedly
aimed 
at encircling and containing China’s rise, and
maintaining 
primacy over the Indo-Pacific region.
 
The “Pentagon Papers” leaked in 1969 would admit in
 regards to the ongoing US war against Vietnam that:
 
…the February decision to bomb North Vietnam and the 
July approval of Phase I deployments make sense only 
if they are in support of a long-run United States policy 
to contain China.
 
The papers also admitted that China, “looms as a major 
power threatening to undercut [American] importance
and effectiveness in the world and, more remotely but
more menacingly, to organize all of Asia against
[America].
 
The papers also made it clear that there were (and still are), 
“three fronts to a long-run effort to contain China: (a) the 
Japan-Korea front; (b) the India-Pakistan front; and (c) 
the Southeast Asia front.”
 
Since then, it is clear that from the continued US military
 presence in both Japan and South Korea, the now two 
decades-long US occupation of Afghanistan on both 
Pakistan’s and China’s borders, and the emergence 
of the so-called “Milk Tea Alliance” aimed at over-
throwing Southeast Asian governments friendly
 with China and replacing them with US-backed 
client regimes – this policy to contain China
 endures up to today.
 
Assessing US activity along these three fronts reveals
 the progress and setbacks Washington faces -- and 
the various dangers to global peace and stability
 Washington’s continued belligerence poses.
 
The Japan-Korea Front 
 
Military.com in their article, “Here’s What It Costs to 
Keep US Troops in Japan and South Korea,” reports:
 
In all, more than 80,000 US troops are deployed to Japan 
and South Korea. In Japan alone, the US maintains more 
than 55,000 deployed troops — the largest forward-
deployed US force anywhere in the world.
 
The article notes that according to the US Government 
Accountability Office (GAO), the US spent “$34 billion 
to maintain military presences in Japan and South
 Korea between 2016 and 2019.”
 
The article cites the GAO providing an explanation as to 
why this massive US military presence is maintained in
 East Asia:
 
“…US forces help strengthen alliances, promote a free 
and open Indo-Pacific region, provide quick response 
to emergencies and are essential for US national
 security.”
 
“Alliances” that are “strengthened” by the physical 
presence of what are -- essentially, -- occupying US 
forces, suggests the “alliance” is hardly voluntary
and claims of promoting a 
“free and open Indo-
Pacific region”
 is highly subjective – begging
the 
question of, to whom, is the Indo-Pacific
“free and open”.
 
And as US power wanes both regionally in the Indo-
Pacific as well as globally, Washington has placed
 increasing pressures on both Japan and South
 Korea to not only help shoulder this financial 
burden, but to also become more proactive 
within Washington’s containment strategy
 toward China.
 
Japan is one of three other nations (the US itself, 
Australia, and India) drafted into the US-led 
Quadrilateral Security Dialogue – also 
known as the “Quad.”
 
Rather than the US solely depending on its own military 
forces based within Japanese territory or supported by
 its Japan-based forces, Japan’s military along with 
India’s and Australia’s are also being recruited to
 take part in military exercises and operations
 in and around the South China Sea.
 
India’s inclusion in the Quad also fits well into the US 
3-front strategy that made up Washington’s contain-
ment policy toward China as early as the 1960s.
 
The India-Pakistan Front 
 
In addition to recruiting India into the Quad alliance, the 
US helps encourage escalation through political 
support and media campaigning of India’s 
various territorial disputes with China.
 
The US also targets Pakistan’s close and ongoing 
relationship with China – including the support of 
armed insurgents in Pakistan’s Baluchistan 
province.
 
Recently, a bombing at a hotel in Quetta, Baluchistan 
appears to have targeted China’s ambassador to 
Pakistan, Ambassador Nong Rong.
 
The BBC in its article, “Pakistan hotel bomb: 
Deadly blast hits luxury venue in Quetta,”
 would claim:
 
Initial reports had suggested the target 
was China’s ambassador.
 
Ambassador Nong Rong is understood to be in Quetta
 but was not present at the hotel at the time of the 
attack on Wednesday.
 
The article also noted:
 
Balochistan province, near the Afghan border,
is home to several armed groups, including
 separatists.
 
Separatists in the region want independence from the 
rest of Pakistan and accuse the government and 
China of exploiting Balochistan, one of 
Pakistan’s poorest provinces, for its 
gas and mineral wealth.
 
Absent from the BBC’s reporting is the extensive and 
open support the US government has provided these 
separatists over the years and how – clearly – this is 
more than just a local uprising against perceived 
injustice, but yet another example of armed 
conflict-by-proxy waged by Washington 
against China.
 
As far back as 2011 publications like The National 
Interest in articles like, “Free Baluchistan” would 
openly advocate expanding US support for 
separatism in Pakistan’s Baluchistan
 province.
 
The article was written by the late Selig  Harrison
--- who was a senior fellow at the US-based 
(corporate-financier funded) Centre for 
International Policy --- & would claim:
 
Pakistan has given China a base at Gwadar in the 
heart of Baluch territory. So an independent 
Baluchistan... would serve US strategic 
interests, in addition to the immediate 
goal, of countering Islamist forces.
 
Of course, “Islamist forces”... is a euphemism for US-
Persian Gulf state sponsored militants used to both
fight Western proxy wars, as well as serve as a 
pretext for Western intervention. Citing 
“Islamist forces” in Baluchistan, 
Pakistan - clearly - serves as
an 
example of the latter.
 
In addition to op-eds published by influential policy 
think tanks, US legislators like US Representative 
Dana Rohrabacher, had proposed resolutions 
such as (emphasis added),
 
“US House of Representatives Concurrent Resolution 
104 (112th): Expressing the sense of Congress that
 the people of Baluchistan, currently divided 
between Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, 
have the right to self-determination and
 to their own sovereign country.”
 
There is also funding provided to adjacent, political 
groups supporting separatism in Baluchistan, 
Pakistan, as listed by the US government’s 
own National Endowment for Democracy 
(NED) website under “Pakistan.”
 
 Organizations like the “Association for Integrated 
Development Balochistan” are funded by the
US 
government and used to mobilize people 
politically, constituting clear interference
 by the US, in Pakistan’s internal 
political affairs.
 
The Gwadar Port project is a key juncture within China’s 
growing global network of infrastructure projects, as 
part of its One Belt, One Road initiative. The US 
clearly opposes China’s rise & has articulated
robust strategies to 
counter it; everything up
to 
and including, open war, as seen in the
Pentagon 
Papers, regarding the
Vietnam War.
 
The recent bombing in Baluchistan, Pakistan demonstrates
 that this strategy continues, in regards to utilizing local 
militants to target Chinese-Pakistani co-operation, and 
is one part of the much wider, region-wide strategy: 
of encircling and containing China.
 
The Southeast Asia Front
 
Of course the US war against Vietnam was part of a wider
 effort to reassert Western primacy over Southeast Asia 
...and deny the region from fueling China’s
inevitable rise.
 
The US having lost the war and almost completely retreating 
from the Southeast Asia region saw Southeast Asia itself
 repair relations amongst themselves and with China.
 
Today, the nations of Southeast Asia count China as their
 largest trade partner, investor, a ''key partner'' in infra-
structure development, a key supplier for the region’s
 armed forces, as well as providing the majority of 
tourism arrivals throughout the region. For 
countries like Thailand, more tourists 
arrive from China, than from all 
Western nations combined.
 
Because existing governments in Southeast Asia have 
nothing to benefit from by participating in American
 belligerence toward China, the US has found it 
necessary to cultivate and attempt to install 
into power various client regimes. This has 
been an ongoing process, since the 
Vietnam War.
 
The US has targeted each nation individually for years.
In 2009 & 2010, US-backed opposition leader-in-exile, 
Thaksin Shinawatra, deployed his “red shirt” rioters
in back-to-back riots - the latter of which included 
some 300 armed militants and culminated in city-
wide arson across Bangkok, and the death of 
over 90 police, soldiers, protesters, and 
bystanders.
 
In 2018, US-backed opposition groups took power in 
Malaysia after the US poured millions of dollars, for 
over a decade, in building up the opposition.
 
Daniel Twining of the US National Endowment
for 
Democracy subsidiary – the International 
Republican Institute – admitted, during a talk
by the 
Center for Strategic & International
Studies, 
that same year, that:
 
…for 15 years working with NED resources, we worked 
to strengthen Malaysian opposition parties -- and guess 
what happened 2 months ago after 61 years? They won.
 
He would elaborate on how the NED’s network played a 
direct role in placing US-backed opposition figures into 
power, within the Malaysian government, stating:
 
I visited and I was sitting there with many of the leaders 
the new leaders of this government, many of whom
 were just our partners we had been working with
 for 15 years and one of the most senior of them
 who’s now one of the people running the 
government said to me, ‘gosh IRI you 
never gave up on us even when we 
were ready to give up 
on ourselves.’
 
Far from “promoting freedom” in Malaysia  ---- Twining 
would make clear the ultimate objective of interfering
 in Malaysia’s internal political affairs, was to serve 
US interests, not only in regards to Malaysia, but 
in regards to the entire region and specifically 
toward encircling and containing China.
 
Twining would boast:
 
  …guess what one of the first steps the 
new government took? It froze Chinese 
infrastructure investments.
 
And that:
 
[Malaysia] is not a hugely pro-American country. It is 
probably never going to be an actual US ally, but this
 is going to redound to our benefit, and and that’s 
an example of the long game.
 
It is a pattern that has repeated itself in Myanmar over 
the decades --- with NED money building a parallel 
political system within the nation and eventually 
leading to Aung San Suu Kyi and her US-backed
 National League for Democracy (NLD) party 
taking power in 2016.
 
For Myanmar, so deep and extensive is US backing for 
opposition groups there, that the elections virtually 
guarantee US-backed candidates win.. every single
 time. The US National Endowment for Democracy’s 
own website alone... lists over 80 programs and 
organizations receiving US government money
- for everything from election polling, and
 building up political parties - to funding 
media networks and “environmental”
 groups used to block any Chinese-
initiated infrastructure projects.
 
The move by Myanmar’s military in February this year, 
ousting Aung Sang Suu Kyi and the NLD, was meant
to
 correct this.
 
However, in addition to backing political groups 
protesting in the streets, the US has – for many 
decades – backed and armed ethnic rebels 
across the country. These rebels have now 
linked up with the US-backed NLD and are 
repeating the US-backed regime change 
tactics used against the Arab World in
2011 --- in nations like Libya, Yemen, 
and Syria – including explicit calls
 for “international intervention.”
 
A US-Engineered “Asia Spring”  
 
Just as the US did during the 2011 “Arab Spring” – the US 
State Department, in a bid to create synergies across 
its various regime change campaigns in Asia, has 
introduced the “Milk Tea Alliance” to transform 
individual US-backed regime change efforts
in 
Asia, into a region-wide crisis.
 
The BBC itself admits in articles like, “Milk Tea 
Alliance: Twitter creates emoji for pro-
democracy activists,” and that:
 
The alliance has brought together anti-Beijing
protesters,
 in Hong Kong and Taiwan, with
pro-democracy 
campaigners in Thailand
and Myanmar.
 
Omitted from the BBC’s coverage of the “Milk Tea Alliance”
 (intentionally) is the actual common denominators that 
unite it – US funding through fronts like the National 
Endowment for Democracy and a unifying hatred 
of China - based exclusively on talking points 
pushed by the US State Department itself.
 
Circling back to the Pentagon Papers and recalling the 
coordinated, regional campaign the US sought to 
encircle China with – we can then look at more
 recent US government policy papers like the 
“Indo-Pacific Framework” published in the 
White House archives from the Trump 
administration.
 
The policy paper’s first bullet point asks:
 
How to maintain US strategic primacy in the Indo-Pacific 
region, and promote a liberal economic order, while 
preventing China from establishing new, illiberal 
spheres of influence, and cultivating areas of 
cooperation to promote regional peace 
and prosperity?
 
The paper also discusses information campaigns designed 
to “educate” the world about “China’s coercive behaviour 
and to influence operations around the globe.” These 
campaigns have materialized in a propaganda war 
fabricating accusations of “Chinese genocide” in 
Xinjiang, China, claims that Chinese telecom 
company Huawei is a global security threat,
 and that China – not the US – is the single 
largest threat to global peace and 
stability today.
 
In reality US policy aimed at encircling China -- is 
predicated upon Washington’s desire to continue 
its own decades-long impunity upon the global 
stage, and the continuation of all the wars, 
humanitarian crises, and abuses, that 
have stemmed from it.
 
Understanding the full scope of Washington’s 
“competition” with China...  helps unlock the 
confusion surrounding unfolding individual 
crises like the trade war; the ongoing 
violence and turmoil in Myanmar;
 bombings in southwest Pakistan;
 students mobs in Thailand; riots
 in Hong Kong; and attempts by
 the US to transform the South 
China Sea, into an inter-
national
 conflict.
 
Understanding that these events are all connected - then
 assessing the success or failure of US efforts - gives us
clearer picture of the overall success of Washington
in 
encircling China.  It also gives governments and 
regional blocs a clearer picture of how to manage
policy, in protecting against US 
subversion: that
threatens national, 
regional, and global peace 
and stability.
 
Brian Berletic, is a Bangkok-based
geopolitical 
researcher and writer,
especially for the 
online magazine
“New Eastern Outlook”.






Australians should be ashamed that they have a
regime propped up to serve US racist agendas!

sanctions infograph

How Exceptional America Is
by Eric Zuesse
September 30th, 2020


America is becoming exceptionally exceptional. In some votes 
at the UN General Assembly - the Assembly of nations - only 
Israel, or one or two other U.S. allies, vote along with it, and 
all others either vote against it, or else abstain in order to 
prevent U.S. retaliation against their own nation. No other 
nation is anything like that. In fact, on many occasions, 
the U.S. arm-twists other delegations -- in order to get 
them to abstain from voting so as to make less stark, 
and less embarrassing, America’s international 
isolation. But America is also extraordinarily 
exceptional in other ways, which have 
nothing to do with the UN.


America is truly an exceptional nation. As the 
Republican Party magazine National Review 
stated, on September 15th, “Last week, 
the US and Israel were the only states
to vote against a General 
Assembly
resolution on the
coronavirus
response. Some have 
seized
upon that vote to paint the 
USt as a bad faith actor
 
that stands alone
in the world.” 


However, this vote wasn’t about only “the global 
coronavirus response.” It was — perhaps even 
more importantly - about U.S. sanctions against 
Iran, Venezuela, Syria, Russia, China, and other 
countries that the U.S. regime considers to be 
its enemies. (None of these countries ever 
invaded or even threatened to invade 
the USA; all of those sanctions are 
100% U.S. aggression. 


They are target-countries that America’s aristocracy 
wants to take over. (The world’s U.S.-sanctioned 
countries are marked in red -- on the map of the 
world below.) Israel strongly supports sanctions 
against both Syria and Venezuela, and routinely 
invades and bombs Syria just for good measure. 
So, it joined America’s position on that.


That UN General Assembly vote was held on September 
11th. America’s Associated Press bannered the next day, 
“UN assembly approves pandemic resolution; US, Israel 
object”, and reported that, “The 193-member world body 
adopted the resolution by a vote of 169-2, with Ukraine 
and Hungary abstaining. It was a strong show of unity 
by the UN’s most representative body, though many 
countries had hoped for adoption by consensus.” 


The AP further stated:


It calls on governments and international financial institutions 
“to provide more liquidity in the financial system, especially 
in all developing countries.” It supports recovery plans that 
“drive transformative change towards more inclusive and 
just societies, including by empowering and engaging all 
women and girls.”


And it urges UN member nations “to adopt a climate- and 
environment-responsive approach to COVID-19 recovery 
efforts”, including by aligning investments and domestic 
policies with the UN goals & the 2015 Paris agreement
to combat climate change. …


By a vote of 132-3, the assembly amended the resolution to 
urge all countries “to refrain from promulgating and applying 
any unilateral economic, financial or trade measures not in 
accordance with international law and the Charter of the 
United Nations that impedes the full achievement of 
economic and social development, particularly in 
developing countries.”


The United States was then overwhelmingly defeated in 
attempts to remove 2 paragraphs from the resolution, 
one referring to women’s rights to “sexual and 
reproductive health” --- and the other --- to 
“promoting global sustainable transport.”


In addition to arguing against the language on sanctions, 
the United States opposed all references to the World 
Health Organization, which the US administration had 
stopped funding, accusing the UN agency of failing 
to do enough to stop the virus from spreading 
when it first surfaced in China.


Nowhere in the AP’s article was any mention made that 
in the “vote of 169-2,” the two nations which had voted 
against the Resolution were the US and Israel, but only 
that there had been “objections from the United States 
and Israel,” regarding attachment, to the Resolution, of 
the Amendment that added the anti-sanctions provision 
to it. This omission was not an error. It is a type of 
omission that is common in propaganda. America 
was more isolated than that ‘news’-report 
made clear.


This vote was about only a “Resolution,” a statement of 
the various nations’ values, to work toward, not about 
any nation’s policy, but the U.S. and Israel don’t share 
those goals — not even rhetorically. This opposition 
to that Resolution’s goals, was truly exceptional.


In particular, nothing is more abhorrent to the US regime 
--- than to stop or impede its sanctions. These sanctions 
include, for example, punishments against any company 
or government that will, in any way, assist in Russia’s 96% 
completed NordStream 2 natural gas pipeline to Germany, 
for the EU to buy Russia’s pipelined natural gas instead of 
America’s fracked, canned, shipped, natural gas. The U.S. 
regime insists that EU nations buy the far costlier trans-
Atlantic-shipped fracked US liquefied natural gas (LNG). 


That insistence upon the EU’s wasting money, in order to 
prop-up America’s fracking industry, is, indeed, exceptional, 
because European nations haven’t customarily been treated
as being mere colonies of other powers. America is treating 
purchasers from, or cooperators with, that competitor (Russia), 
as being its enemies. The way the U.S. Representative stated 
this (after a lengthy diatribe which blamed China for Covid-19 
and said that the U.S. had quit the World Health Organization 
because WHO lacked “independence from the Chinese 
Communist Party”) was: “Economic sanctions are a 
legitimate means to achieve foreign policy, security, 
and other national and international objectives, and 
the United States is not alone in that view or in that 
practice.” (That exact same sentence had, earlier, 
been stated by the US regarding a different matter, 
on 18 November 2019.) Actually, the U.S. regime is 
very “alone” on it. Furthermore, the other part was 
also a lie: the U.S. regime asserts that coercing 
corporations and countries to not buy from the 
lowest-cost supplier, is within its sovereign 
right to do. 


However, as Professor Alfred de Zayas, who until recently was 
the UN’s top expert on this topic, explained in depth on 27th 
June 2019, that assertion is blatantly false, on many clear 
grounds concerning international law. It is a blatant lie, no 
matter how many times the U.S. regime asserts it (and 
asserts that the US regime isn’t “alone” in asserting it).


Even back when Barack Obama (the man who repeatedly 
claimed that “The United States is and remains, the one 
indispensable nation”) was America’s President, the US
was exceptional at the United Nations. For example, on 
24th November 2014, I headlined “U.S. Among Only 3 
Countries Officially Backing Nazism & Holocaust-
Denial”, and reported that - “In a UN vote, on 
November 21st, only 3 countries - the US,
Ukraine, and Canada — voted 
against a
resolution to condemn racist fascism, 
or nazism, and to condemn denial of
Germany’s 
World War II Holocaust
against, primarily, Jews.'' 


This measure passed the General Assembly, on a vote of 115 
in favour, 3 against, & 55 abstentions (the abstentions were 
in order not to offend U.S. President Obama, who was 
opposed to the resolution).” Then, on 21 June 2015, 
I headlined “America’s UN Ambassador Continues 
Standing Up for Nazis” and noted that, again, 
Obama’s UN Ambassador, Samantha Power, 
had stood up for nazism; she had just 
delivered an address -- in Ukraine -- 
rallying that country’s supporters 
of nazism to war against Russia. 


Then, on 21 November 2017, I headlined “Trump 
Continues Obama’s Support of Nazism”, and 
reported that:


On November 16th, US President Donald Trump, acting 
through an agent of his agent, UN Ambassador Nikki 
Haley, voted at the UN against a resolution that 
condemns bigotry, and especially condemns 
nazism & all forms of racism. He thus, yet 
again, continues in the tradition from his 
predecessors, Presidents Obama, and 
Bush, each year, placing this nation in 
the company of only one or two U.S. 
allies throughout the world who join 
with the US in refusing to commit to 
opposing and doing everything to 
reduce, not just political Nazism 
(which, of course, is past), but 
ideological nazism, racist 
fascism - institutionalized 
bigotry (which, sadly, is 
not past).


But, be that as it may, the U.S. is also exceptional in 
many other ways. I listed some of those on July 13th.


There are two main reasons why the U.S. regime is able 
to coerce other nations to not violate its will. One is that 
although publicly available reports allege it spends 
approximately 37% of the entire world’s military 
expenditures, the U.S. regime  actually - spends 
around 50% of the entire world’s military costs, 
and therefore, it possesses an extraordinary 
physical capacity to impose its will, if and 
when merely economically blockading an 
‘enemy’ country (via sanctions) fails to
do 
the job of getting it to comply. 


And the other main reason is that, since the US government 
is at least as corrupt as the average “third-world” country is, 
but is instead one of the world’s richest countries, arranging 
pay-offs to other world leaders, in order to obtain their 
cooperation, is easily affordable... (These payoffs are 
being paid by all US.taxpayers, not by only America’s 
billionaires, who reap all of the profits from the 
empire that is imposed.)


American exceptionalism is real. It’s not the type of 
exceptionalism that the regime’s propaganda claims 
to be the case, but, nonetheless, it is real.


(Strategic Culture Foundation)



sanctions map

Please watch the video above...
We have never existed in such peril,
and yet almost no-one is able to act.


Nuclear words:
Putin's FINAL warning:

(People DO need reminding -- unless
US, UK and French policy changes,
and stops being so 'exceptional'
-- that is, outside the UN legal
Charter and thus, criminal
--- there will be a reaping.)



 
BREAKING: Russia's State TV
Advising Russian Citizens on

how to survive a World War !

WAKE UP NOW - AND STOP
THE WAR ON CHINA/RUSSIA !

The Doomsday clock of the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

website now has the final singular
moment that will bring
civilization
to final nuclear annihilation, at
90 seconds to midnight.

This is the closest it has ever been.
Scott Ritter says it should be 2 seconds


World Will Not Survive the US'
 Neocons' Doctrine of US World
 Hegemony - Paul Graig Roberts
Wednesday, February 7th, 2018

"The government of the United States is clearly in
demonic hands. We are overflowing with proof",
writes American well known analytist and ex-
official Paul Graig Roberts in his website.

Take today (2-2-18) for example. A report from the
House Intelligence Committee was released that
is proof that the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
 the Department of Justice --- and the Democrat
National Committee, are now in a conspiracy
against American democracy and the
President of the United States,
 with the full support of the
presstitute media.

As if that is not enough, also released today, is the
Pentagon’s new Nuclear Posture Review. A nuclear
posture review specifies a country’s attitude to
nuclear weapons and their use. In past posture
reviews, nuclear weapons were regarded as
unusable except in retaliation for a nuclear
 attack. The assumption was that no one
would use them. There was always the
chance that false warnings of incoming
ICBMs would result in a nuclear button
being pushed - setting off Armageddon.

There were many false warnings during the Cold War
President Ronald Reagan, was very concerned about
a false warning, ending in mass death & destruction.

This is why his principal goal was to end the Cold War,
which he succeeded in doing. It did not take
successor governments long, to
resurrect the Cold War.

The new US nuclear posture is a reckless, irresponsible,
and destabilizing departure from the previous attitude
 toward nuclear weapons. The use of even a small part
of the existing arsenal of the United States would be
sufficient to destroy life on earth. Yet, the posture
review calls for more weapons, speaks of nuclear
weapons as “usable,” and justifies their use in
First Strikes, even against countries that do
not have nuclear weapons.

This is an insane escalation. It tells every country that
 the US government, believes in the first use of nuclear
weapons against any & every country. Nuclear powers
 such as Russia & China must see this to be a massive
 increase in the threat level from the US.

Those responsible for this document should be committed
to insane aslyums, not left in policy positions where they
can put it into action.
 
The neoconservatives are a small group of conspirators.
Most neoconservatives are Jews allied with Israel. Some
 are dual-citizens. They created an ideology of US world
 hegemony, specifying that the chief goal of US foreign
policy, is to prevent the rise of any other power that
could serve as a constraint on US unilateralism.

As neoconservatives control US foreign policy, this
explains US hostility toward Russia and China and
also the neo-conservatives’ use of the US military
to remove governments in the Middle East, seen
by Israel as obstacles to Israeli expansion. For
two decades --- the US has been fighting wars
for Israel in the Middle East. This fact proves
 the power and influence of the insane neo-
conservatives. It is certain, that people
as insane as the neoconservatives,
would launch a nuclear attack
on Russiaand China.

The Russian and Chinese governments seem to be
 completely unaware of the threat that the neo-
conservatives pose to them. I have never
experienced in interviews with Russians
 and Chinese, any awareness of the neo-
conservative ideology. Possibly, it is
too insane for them to grasp.

Ideologues such as the neoconservatives
are not fact-based


They are chasing their dream of world hegemony. Russia
& China are in the way of this hegemony. Having learned
 the limits of conventional military power—after 20 years
 the US “superpower” has been unable to defeat a few
thousand lightly armed Taliban in Afghanistan—the
neo-conservatives know: conventional invasions
of Russia or China, would lead to the total
defeat of US forces.

Therefore, the neoconservatives have elevated nuclear
weapons to a First Strike, usable, arsenal that in the
neoconservative dream of world hegemony can be
 used to destroy Russia and China.

Ideologues who divorce themselves from the facts
 create a virtual world for themselves. Their belief
 in their ideology blinds them to the risks for them-
selves and others that they impose on the world.

Thanks to the American liberal/progressive/left, the
entirety of the world is faced with a far more likely
nuclear demise than ever threatened us during the
 Cold War with the Soviet Union.

By its collaboration with the military/security complex
& the corrupt Hillary DNC, the liberal/progressive/left
has forever discredited itself. It is now seen by every
thinking person worldwide as an insane propaganda
ministry --- for the neoconservatives’ plan to use
nuclear weapons to eliminate constraints on
US unilateralism.

The liberal/progressive/left has endorsed
“hegemony or death.”

They will get death. For all of us.

(Source - DONi News Agency)

According to: PaulGraigRoberts.org
 

_______________________________________

Syrian Girl - The Truth
About The Kurds In Syria



Full Text: Official Declaration
 of the Malorossiyan Federation

Zakharchenko announces a new federal state, Malorossiya,
(means ''Little Russia'') as the legal successor of Ukraine.
DONi News Agency

On 18.7.2017 the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic,
Alexander Zakharchenko, declared the creation of a new
federal state, Malorossiya, which will become the legal
successor of 'Ukraine'. The new state formation, will
consist of 19 regions of the former Ukraine with the
capital in Donetsk city. Kiev remains a historical
and cultural centre, without the status of
capital city.

Here is the full English translation of the declaration:

Political Declaration

The project of the state of "Ukraine", formulated 150 years ago
 and implemented in different versions during the 20th century,
has reached its logical conclusion --- and led to the country's
disintegration, civil war and the death of tens of thousands
of people, including children, women, and elderly people.

And this process is irreversible. An attempt to turn the story back
will result in "balkanization" of the conflict, expansion of chaos,
escalation of civil war and even bigger numbers of casualties.

To stop the civil war and avoid new victims, we representatives
of the majority of the regions of former "Ukraine" assembled
in Donetsk on July 18, 2017, discussed the current situation
and came to the following conclusions:

- the state of "Ukraine" has revealed itself as a failed state and
demonstrated its being incapable of granting its inhabitants
a peaceful and prosperous present and future;

- the current authorities  – elected in Kiev, after the coup d'etat,
against the backdrop of political terror and the absence
 of elections in the Crimea and Donbass, are illegitimate;

- the state of "Ukraine" is on the brink of
economic catastrophe and depopulation;

- an ultranationalist coup is brewing in Kiev, as a result
of which outright neo-Nazis will come to power
instead
of "Banderites with a European face";

- the Ukrainian nationalistic project (the Galician one)
has 
discredited itself, by the shedding of civilians'
blood in
 the country;

- the ideology of "Ukrainism" has proved to be misanthropic,
 mixed with xenophobia (Russophobia, anti-Semitism,
Polonophobia) and neo-Nazism (the ideology of
national exclusivity and superiority);

- resulting from historical development and due to the Maidan,
the word "Ukraine" is forever associated with the names of
the Nazi accomplices, Bandera and Shukhevich, with the
tragedies of the Baby Yar, the Volyn massacre & Khatyn,
and, nowadays, with the mass murder of people on the
Maidan, in the Trade Unions' House in Odessa, and
Genocide of the Donbass people.

On the basis of the above, we believe that the state of
 "Ukraine", in the form it was established, after the
collapse of the USSR, is UNSERVICEABLE.

We, representatives of the regions of the former "Ukraine",
propose to re-establish the state and to proclaim the state
of MALOROSSIYA, under an historical background, out of
the former "Ukraine". In this case, it is of fundamental
importance to rename the country, since "Ukraine"
as a state, is guilty of war crimes, mass terror
and the genocide of its own people.

In turn, the new name of the country, based on historical
traditions, will enable us to reunify those pieces of the
former "Ukraine" that seemed to have parted ways
forever, including because of participation in the
civil war, on different sides of the front line.

We must turn the page of our people's history, which
is flooded with the blood of our brothers and sisters.

Malorossiya is an INDEPENDENT, SOVEREIGN state, with
a new name, a new flag, a new constitution, a new state
structure, new principles of social and economic
development, and new historical prospectives.

But this is NOT A REVOLUTION ! This is a return to
history. This is a novelty that restores, not destroys.

In view of the economic plight of the country, the chaos
& disintegration potential, and regarding the possibility
of launching a "war of all against all", we consider it
necessary to declare a state of emergency for the
transition period – up to 3 years. During this time,
the process of adoption of the new Constitution
and the establishment of the rule of law,
should be completed.

Under a state of emergency, a ban on the activities of
political parties and foreign funds is to be introduced,
& penalties for criminal offenses, especially against
the person, are to be increased. The fight against
corruption will be toughened, as well as the
penalties for it.The shadow arms market is
 to be eliminated, including by registering
weapons in accordance with the new law.

In the same period an investigation is to be carried
out, with the involvement of foreign specialists –-
from Russia, Belarus & the European Union –- into
the crimes committed by the Maidan Kiev regime:
the murders on the Maidan, the murder of Odessa
citizens in the Trade Unions' House on May 2nd,
 2014, and the war crimes in Donbass, in the
so-called ATO.

In the same period, the People's Tribunal is to be
prepared to charge the state criminals who have
led the country into disintegration and civil war:
V.F. Yanukovich (with a request to Russia for his
 extradition), P.A. Poroshenko and his clique:
 Turchinov, Yatsenyuk, Kolomoisky, Paruby,
Nalivaichenko and others.

We are sure that, having recovered from the criminal
neo-Nazi ideology of "Ukrainism", we will be able to
build a new society on the basis of friendship and
mutual assistance -- but not hatred and envy. The
creative genius of our people will manage to bring
 Malorossiya to the forefront of global civilization
and play a role in history. The role of Good,
 and Truth.

Official translation by the DONi
Donbass News Agency, 07/18/2017

(Source - Russia Insider)


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Nato – A Dangerous Alliance
May 24th

As Nato ends its summit in Brussels, Rae Street explains
why the military alliance remains a threat to world peace


When the Warsaw Pact ended, after the collapse of communism,
some optimists might have expected Nato to be broken up too.
After all, the Labour Party in Britain had been opposed to Nato
 in the mid-1980s. But that was not to be. The US, which had
always dominated Nato, quickly began to reinvent Nato
and furthermore, to expand it.

Following the end of the Warsaw Pact many central and east
European governments wanted to join Nato. This, of course,
was music to the ears of the US military manufacturers.
 Indeed, the chair of the expand Nato committee, Bruce
 Jackson, was technical director of Lockheed Martin,
 the largest military manufacturer in the world. So, for
the new Nato members because of the policy on
“interoperability,” that is Nato personnel being
able to use the same military equipment, it
was out with the old Soviet military hard-
ware and in with sales of, for example,
Lockheed’s military aircraft ,costing
 millions of dollars.

This continues to this day in countries which can ill afford
 it, with struggling economies. The latter includes Greece.
Think of the situation in Greece today.

Expanding Nato up to the borders with Russia, was a
provocative policy. The dangers were pointed out but
 the military industrial complex and the “hawks” in
the West, took no notice.

To this day, this helps President Vladimir Putin:
more and more of the Russian people believe
that “the West” is against them.

Decades later, we read: “British troops have arrived in
 Estonia, as part of a major Nato mission in the Baltic
states, to deter Russian aggression.”

From the start, Nato has always held a nuclear
armed policy.  It continues to claim that nuclear
weapons “preserve peace.” Manifestly, nuclear
weapons do not deter conflict.

Governments, including Britain’s, now analyse the main
threats to security as cyber warfare and terrorism.
Remember September 11th 2001, when New York
 was attacked by terrorists in planes,
 brandishing knives?

The US then had and still has, 13 nuclear armed Trident
submarines, of which several will be roaming the seas
 fully operational. Britain has four, with one constantly
 on alert at sea.

Were these any use in the madman’s attack
on Westminster, or in any terrorist attacks?

Trident is “integrated” into Nato. Even worse, Nato
 still has a policy of “first use of nuclear weapons.”

When the then minister of defence, Geoff Hoon, was
asked in Parliament why Britain has a policy of “first
use,” he replied: “Because of our obligations
to Nato.”

Under the direction of the US administration, with its
policy of global domination, Nato has established a
string of nuclear-armed bases across Europe, in
Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and
Turkey, at Incirlik.

The latter is now causing deep problems as relations
between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the
US, become more and more fractious.

There is now a real problem for Nato, as Erdogan is a
 repressive dictator — how can Turkey remain in Nato?

Nato states are supposed to uphold principles of human
 rights and democracy, notably lacking in Turkey today.

The nuclear-armed bases come under Nato’s “nuclear
sharing policy” — in effect a violation of the nuclear
 Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Nato continues to expand. The policy of not acting “out
 of area” was dropped long ago. “North Atlantic” simply
means, a domination of policies by the US.

Nato claims in its “strategic concept” that “the promotion
 of Euro-Atlantic security is best assured through a wide
network of partner relationships with countries and
organisations around the globe.”

In 1994 Nato established the Partnerships for Peace
 across Europe, extending as far as Uzbekistan.

 Nato surrounds Russia from the west and east. These
 Partnerships for Peace (note the language again) now
 include 22 states, including “neutral” Ireland.

Then there is the ''Mediterranean Dialogue,'' with
''arrangements'' with countries in the Middle East.
Few people realise that Nato carries out
military exercises with Israel.

 Nato has also established bilateral relations — named
individual partnerships — with Afghanistan, Australia,
Iraq, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, New
 Zealand and Pakistan.

In this part of the globe, where Nato carried out a military
 exercise in 2014 with Japan, named Ocean Shield, they
 are surrounding and menacing China, as the enemy.

Then there was the statement by Nato that “co-operation
 between Nato and the United Nations continues to make
 a substantial contribution to security in operations
round the world.

“The alliance aims to deepen political dialogue and
practical co-operation with the UN, as set out in
the Nato/UN declaration, signed in 2008.”

This seems like Nato bidding
to be the UN's military arm.

This hardly accords with the UN Charter. It was the
Organisation for Security & Co-operation in Europe,
set up under Chapter 8, of the UN Charter, to
prevent and resolve conflict by non-military
means and to promote co-operation in
humanitarian and other fields.

The 54 member states stretch from Iceland to Kyrgyzstan
and include Russia. Alas, how many times do you read
of their work in the press, compared with the times
you hear about Nato?

Nato is sold to us as a peace-making body. After all,
the US is home to the finest PR companies in
the world.

To summarise, Nato is pursuing yet more militarism and war:

- All Nato states are required to increase their military budgets
 to 2 per cent of GDP. That means stealing more money from
 social needs. Readers of the Morning Star know those all
too well: the NHS, education, adult social services; the
 list is endless.

- Nato member states will have to spend 20 per cent of defence
 budgets on military equipment: warships, war planes, drones,
 bombs. By fuelling the arms race, Nato makes a mockery of
moves for conflict resolution.

- Nato and its member states multiply interventions outside
their territory and increase their presence through world-
wide partnerships and “coalitions of the willing.”

- Nato extends its nuclear policies as a supreme “guarantee
 for the allies’ security,” notwithstanding that the majority of
countries in the world are negotiating a treaty to ban nuclear
 weapons. In the meantime, nuclear weapons in Europe —
under the guise of Nato — and elsewhere, are being
modernised at a cost of many tens of billions of
dollars and pounds. Think of Trident at a cost
of £205 billion.

The Nato summit will be held and activists will
beholding a “counter-summit”
with protesters
organising workshops and a 
demonstration.

CND activists will be there from the 
UK, but
-- we also need people to raise the issues

with their MPs, write letters to the press
and 
raise awareness on social media.

Let’s put pressure on the government to
invest in social welfare, not Nato, not war.

(Source - Morning Star)





Legendary memorial at Saur-Tomb
''restored by May 2017''

DPR authorities have finished restoring the
Saur-Tomb by May 2017. It was announced
by the Building Minister, Sergey Naymets.


‘Saur Tomb has been being restored
since November, and we planned to
finish  this by May 2017’, the
Minister said.


He said "many people contributed to this
project of restoration of the
memorial
damaged by shelling," Naumets noted.

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Cool Russia!




[Eng Subs] Children of Donbass,
"Toys for Poroshenko"
Music Video by Artem Grishanov

POWERFUL - PUT THIS ON HEADPHONES.
I guarantee you will cry - and if you don't
- please seek psychiatric help.



In 2017 in the Donbass -
give the children Peace!


Ethnic Ruthenes of sub-Carpathian
Ukraine demand autonomy


Activists of a Slavic ethnic group known as Ruthenes
-- or Rusyns -- who reside in the Trans-Carpathian
(sub-
Carpathian) region of Ukraine, have turned
to
President Pyotr Poroshenko with a demand:

  recognize the results of 1991's regional
  referendum --- when 78% of the region's
residents, voted in favor of granting it
the status of a
self-governing region.


"We have two main demands - to recognize the
 Rhuthenes as an ethnos and to acknowledge
 the regional referendum of 1991, where 78%
sub-Carpathians voted for the region being
 a self-governed territory within Ukraine,"
Vesti quoted Ivan Palinkash, the
leader
of the Ruthene movement &
a member
of
the People’s Council's presidium  
of Sub-
Carpathian Ruthenes.


Natalya Magalina, a deputy of Uzhgorod district
 council, told the meeting of leaders of Ruthene
ethnic organizations it is important to maintain
 the Ruthene language by establishing minimal
 norms for broadcasting in the native tongue,
over the state regional TV Channel Tisa-1.

This isn't the first time that the Ruthenes of the sub-
Carpathian area have asked the Kiev government to
 recognize the outcome of the referendum held 25
 years ago. The Coordination Council of Ruthene
 Organizations of the Trans-Carpathian Region
turned to the central authorities with the
same requirement, the previous time,
in
the summer of 2015.


It was also in the summer of 2015 that the activists
 of Ruthene organizations adopted an appeal to the
 Council of Europe, the European Commission, the
Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe
& the UN, as well as to the parliaments of Hungary,
 the Czech Republic, & Slovakia, to wield pressure
 on President Poroshenko and force the Ukrainian
 government towards accepting the result of
 their referendum.

The Ruthenes are an indigenous sub-Carpathian
 people. Ukrainian authorities do not consider
 them to be a separate ethnos, and continue
calling them Ukrainians, although the UN
 has issued recommendations more than
once, to recognize their status as a
separate ethnos.

More than that, Kiev accuses the leaders of
Ruthene organizations of making appeals
 for encroachments on the territorial
 integrity of the country.

(source - TASS)



!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Zionist lobby preventing West
from criticizing Israel: Analyst
Fri Dec 16, 2016

The European Union has censured the Israeli regime
 for destroying Palestinian shelters and structures in
the occupied territories. According to a statement
by the European bloc, the Tel Aviv regime has
 demolished 866 structures so far in 2016 in
Area C of the West Bank, which is under
 full Israeli military control.

Anthony Hall, editor-in-chief of the American Herald
 Tribune from Alberta, says that the European states
 have been under the influence of the Zionist lobby
to go along with Israeli interests - and thus refuse
 to slam crimes against the Palestinian people.

“Every government within the EU has a very strong
 Israeli lobby, and this is one of the dilemmas that
 the Western people are facing,” Hall explained.

“Not only the governing parties but the opposition
parties as well, are constraining discussion and
 discourse within a very narrow range, that puts
 Israeli priorities at the top of the list in all our
 Western countries,” he added.

The professor also called on Western citizens
 to “intervene directly and make contact with
the Palestinian people, directly.”

“We, as the citizens in the EU, citizens in Canada,
& citizens in the US, have to find ways to bypass
the constraints of our governments & the biases
and power of this lobby over our governments,”
he noted.

Hall criticized the EU for its forensic accounting
of homes demolished in Palestine.

“This type of numerical accounting fails to really
 describe the nature of this destruction of homes
 in its broader context ------ where thousands of
Palestinian people are in dungeons and being
 tortured in Israeli incarceration facilities,”
he said.

“The reality: that the world is letting this
 happen is very discouraging,” he added. 

Hall warned that the prospect of a Palestinian
state is no longer viable, given the emphasis
on building up settlements, and destroying
the structures of the indigenous people
 of Palestine.

"This goes beyond apartheid,” he said.

The Israeli policy of demolishing houses in
the
West Bank to build illegal settler units
has
affected 5,704 Palestinians, of whom,
1,221
have been rendered homeless,
 including 586 children.

   (source - PressTv)

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UN Adopts "Paper Tiger"
Resolution, on Israel's

Withdrawal from the
Syrian Golan
 
Fahwad Al-Khadoumi - The UN General Assembly
 adopted yet another resolution demanding that
Israel withdraw from the occupied Syrian Golan
 Heights, in line with a resolution of June 4, 1967.

However, UN General Assembly resolutions are
non-binding and no more than a paper tiger, with-
out a unanimous decision by the permanent UN
Security Council members, to enforce them; A
highly unlikely prospect.

In its latest resolution, the UN General Assembly
 again condemned Israel's non-compliance with
UN Security Council Resolution 497 (1981).

 The General Assembly reiterated that Israel's
 decision from December 14th, 1981, to impose
Israeli laws, administration & custody on the
 occupied Syrian Golan Heights, is null and
void -- and has no legality at all.

The latest UNGA resolution was adopted by an
 overwhelming majority of UN member States.

 The resolution --- reaffirmed the illegality of
acquiring territories ----- through the use of
military force. The General Assembly also
 repeated that Israel's continued occupation
 & enforcement of Israeli law & administration
 violates international law, the UN Charter, &
 the Geneva Convention's principles on the
 protection of civilians during war.
 
During the UNGA session, a number of states
 condemned the Israeli practices in occupied
 Syrian Golan, calling on Israel to withdraw
from Golan, in line with June 4th, 1967.

 37 states proposed the now adopted draft
resolution. However, UNGA resolutions are
 non-binding and no more than a paper tiger,
 unless permanent Security Council members
 are willing to put their money where their
 mouth was, when they adopted UNSC
 Resolution 497 (1981) - decades ago.

Moreover, none of the permanent UNSC members
 - China, France, Russia, the UK and the US - took
any tangible steps when the now former Israeli
Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman,
defiantly
declared that "Israel and the Golan are part
and parcel" and that "the international
community should get used to facing
the fact that Israel will permanently
annex the Syrian territory".

Most favourite scapegoat

The favorite scapegoat among permanent UNSC
 members, with regard to supporting Israel and
 neglecting Israel's illegal occupation of Golan
is the US. However, Russia is in no way more
actively pursuing Israel's adherence with
UNSC Resolution 497 (1981)  -- than any
other -- of the self-anointed permanent
UNSC members. In April 2016, Russia
and Russian President Vladimir Putin,

were ominously silent about the Golan
when
Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu,
visited Moscow.

Russia failed to respond to what Netanyahu had
 declared "a red line" - occupation of the Golan.

A brief review of recent history pertaining to the
 Israeli occupation, international affairs & Israel's
 use of the Golan to wage war on Syria, suffices
 to show that the UN System has failed, utterly,
 and that it is perverted to the point that many
 analysts call for abolishing the UN altogether.

In June 2013 an Austrian UN Disengagement &
 Observer Force (UNDOF) officer told the press
 that Israel is -- running a joint operations room
with the insurgents in Syria in the Golan. The
UNSC failed to respond and more importantly,
 failed to take action. In July 2013, the Syrian
 permanent representative to the UN in Geneva,
Dr. Fayssal al-Hamwi, noted how Israel, since
 it occupied the Syrian Golan Heights in 1967,
has displaced about half a million of the
Golan´s original inhabitants.

Also in Feb. 2014, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
 preempted a public relations quagmire by visiting
a field hospital for "Syrian Freedom Fighters" in
the Golan to show how much Israel cares and
does, on the humanitarian front. It turned out
that the "Freedom Fighters" belonged to the
Syrian Al-Qaeda franchise, Jabhat al-Nusra.

In March 2014, Israel launched one of many
 military attacks against Syrian military and
 security forces, from the Golan, while the
 UNSC and most media were "silent".

In April 2014 The Director of Israel's Military
 Intelligence, Brigadier General Aviv Kochavi,
a protegé of the now deceased Ariel Sharon,
 was appointed to head the Israeli Defense
Forces Northern Command.

NSNBC international editor-in-chief, Christof
Lehmann, reported that the appointment of
Kochavi, indicated that Israel was planning
large-scale military operations in the Golan
in the near future and the widening of the
Syria war. Lehmann was right on the money.

In May 2014 Israel denied Syrians in Golan the
 right to participate in Syrian elections. The UN
 was "silent". In mid-April 2016, ahead of talks
with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli
 PM Benjamin Netanyahu affirmed that Israel
would hold on to the Golan.

A UNDOF withdrawal has left a 12-16 km wide
 corridor uncontrolled by the UNDOF...  In 2013,
it transpired that Israel was giving support to
Jabhat al-Nusrah, such as a joint intelligence
and military operations room in the Israeli
occupied Golan, plus logistical support,
weapons, field hospitals, and direct
combat support.

In September 2014, Israeli machinations, resulted
in the displacement of UNDOF troops from a 12-16
 kilometer-wide corridor in the disengagement zone
 in the Golan by Jabhat Al-Nusra.. The corridor has
 since been used to supply Al-Nusra and the other
 terrorists and to launch attacks against Syria.

All permanent UNSC members with the exception of
 Russia were "silent". Russian diplomats tentatively
 spoke out against terminating the peace keeping
 mission in the Golan. The UNSC failed to act.


In 2015 it came out that Israel planned a major
hydrocarbon extraction project in the Golan.
 Partners in crime include Genier Energy.

On the board of directors? Dick Cheney,
James Woolsey, Bill Richardson, Jacob
Lord Rothschild, Rupert Murdoch, Larry
Summers and Michael Steinhardt,
among others.

Other players involved include the Israeli subsidiary,
Afek Oil and Gas, American Shale, French Total and
 BP. Thus, there exists a broad and powerful nexus
of US, British, French and Israeli interests: at the
 forefront of pushing for the break-up of Syria and
control of what's believed to be potentially vast
untapped oil and gas resources in the country.

On April 20th, 2016, NSNBC international editor-
in-chief Christof Lehmann -- said Netanyahu's
"Red Line" would be a litmus test for Russia,
as a permanent UNSC member. On April
21st, after talks between
Netanyahu
and Putin in Moscow, it could be
 concluded that Russia failed
-- spectacularly.

In September 2016, Israel started a wave of home
 demolitions in the Golan. The UNSC was "silent".
 
 In October 2016, Israel announced plans to
build 1,600 settlement units in the Golan,
& none of the permanent UNSC members
 took any action.

So much for the latest UN
General Assembly
 paper tiger.

_________________________________




The UK Labour MPs who
 didn’t back the Yemen vote
 have blood on their hands
by David Wearing

Presenting the motion in the Commons, Thornberry
 was subjected to a series of ill-judged interruptions
 by Labour MPs, such as Kevan Jones, Toby Perkins
 and John Woodcock. Indeed, Thornberry received
 more vocal support in the chamber from the SNP
 group than from her own supposed comrades.

According to subsequent reports, some Labour
members even tried to work with their Tory
 counterparts, in order to defeat their own
 party’s motion.

Woodcock, a former 'Progress' Chair, claimed that
 British support is “precisely focused on training
the Saudis” to improve their targeting - so as to
 “create fewer civilian casualties” -  parroting
 the official government line. The idea that the
 Saudis’ “widespread & systematic” attacks
on civilian targets are just a series of well-
meaning errors, is one that, to put it as
gently as possible, lacks credibility.

And if decades of training provided by the
British to the Saudi pilots hasn’t prevented
these supposed errors by now --- it seems
rather unlikely that it will in the near future.

In any case, this misrepresents the true nature
of the UK's role. When the intervention began,
the foreign secretary Philip Hammond, vowed
 to “support the Saudis in every practical way
short of engaging in combat”, including “spare
parts, maintenance, technical advice, resupply”
 and “logistical support”. The reality is that the
 Saudi Air Force, roughly half UK-supplied and
 half US-supplied jets, could barely function,
without this ongoing assistance from
Washington and London.

If there is Yemeni blood on the hands of the Saudi-led
 coalition - then that blood is also on the hands of the
 coalition’s western backers, enablers and apologists.

The Saudis and their allies can only wage this war
 because the Anglo-American suppliers of their air
 forces are providing active, material support. And
 British and American politicians can only collude
in these outrages, because the political cost on
them, so far, has been low. However, it is in the
gift of their constituents – you, the reader –
to change that equation.

(source - The Guardian)


This could be defeated --- with
a UNITED LABOUR PARTY !!!

But unfortunately, there are "entryist"  MPs who, for
decades, have been groomed by CIA cold war relic
organisations -- like the Atlantic Council -- and are
now trying to misdirect the Labour Party towards
cuts, a militarised police, and a US war agenda...
 and their anti-peace MPs are hobbling Labour.


129 Labour MPs voted to stop support for
Saudi Arabia’s campaign in Yemen. The
vote was defeated by a majority of 90.

The motion called for ---- support to be withdrawn
from the Saudi government until a United Nations
 investigation could determine whether the Saudi
 bombing had breached international law.

 The motion didn't explicitly include
a suspension
 of UK arms sales.

100+ Labour MPs didn't vote on the motion.
If all of them had voted to support it, the
government would have been defeated.

The following, are the Labour MPs who
abstained, or weren't present to vote.

Adrian Bailey
Andy Burnham
Angela Eagle
Angela Smith
Ann Clwyd
Ann Coffey
Anna Turley
Barry Sheerman
Ben Bradshaw
Bridgit Phillipson
Caroline Flint
Catherine McKinnell
Chris Bryant
Chris Elmore (Teller)
Chris Evans
Chris Leslie
Clive Lewis (ill)
Connor McGinn
Dan Jarvis
David Crausby
David Lammy
Diana Johnson
Fiona MacTaggart
Frank Field
Gareth Thomas
Gavin Shuker
Geoffrey Robinson
George Howarth
Gerald Kaufman
Gill Furniss
Gisela Stuart
Gloria De Piero
Graeme Jones
Graham Allen
Graham Stringer
Heidi Alexander
Helen Jones
Ian Austin
Ian Murray
Ivan Lewis
Jamie Reed
Jim Fitzpatrick
Joan Ryan
John Mann
John Spellar
John Woodcock
Judith Cummins (Teller)
Julie Elliott
Kate Hoey
Keith Vaz
Kevan Jones
Kevin Barron
Liz Kendall
Luciana Berger
Lucy Powell
Madeleine Moon
Margaret Beckett
Margaret Hodge
Maria Eagle
Mark Hendrick
Mary Creagh
Meg Hillier (Paired)
Melanie Onn
Michael Dugher
Mike Gapes
Natascha Engel
Neil Coyle
Nia Griffith
Pat McFadden
Paul Flynn
Peter Kyle
Phil Wilson
Rachel Reeves
Rob Flello
Rob Marris
Roberta Blackman-Woods
Rosie Cooper
Rushanara Ali
Ruth Smeeth
Shabana Mahmood
Siobhain McDonagh
Stephen Kinnock
Susan Jones
Toby Perkins
Tom Blenkinsopp
Tom Watson
Tracy Brabin
Tristram Hunt
Vernon Coaker
Wayne David
Wes Streeting
Yasmin Qureshi
Yvonne Fovargue


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‘How Can I Deselect
My Labour MP?’ A Short
Guide
to Reselection and
Democratic Accountability

by Eric Sim, excellent free advice here:

http://novaramedia.com/2016/07/13/how-can-i-
deselect-my-labour-mp-a-short-guide-to-
reselection-and-democratic-accountability/


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US Impunity Erodes World Justice

Nicolas J S Davies is the author of Blood On Our
Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction
of Iraq.  He also wrote the chapters on “Obama
at War” in Grading the 44th President: a Report
Card on Barack Obama’s First Term as a
Progressive (Lol) Leader.

In the past weeks, Burundi and S. Africa have joined
 Namibia in declaring their intention to withdraw from
the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court
(ICC). They are likely to be followed by a parade of
other African countries, jeopardizing the future of
an international court, which has prosecuted 39
officials from 8 African countries, but has failed
 to indict a single person who is not African.

Ironically, African countries were among the first
 to embrace the ICC, so it is a striking turnaround
 that they are now the first to give up on it.

But it is the United States that has played the leading
 role in preventing the ICC from fulfilling the universal
mandate for which it was formed, to hold officials of
all countries accountable for the worst crimes in the
world: genocide; crimes against humanity; and war
crimes - not least, international aggression, which
 the judges at Nuremberg defined as “the supreme
 international crime”, from which, all other war
crimes follow.

As the ICC’s founding father, former Nuremberg
prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz, lamented in 2011:
 
“You don’t have to be a criminologist to realize
that if you want to deter a crime, you must
persuade potential criminals that, if they
commit crimes, they will be hauled into
court and be held accountable. It is the
policy of the US to do just the opposite
as far as the crime of aggression is
concerned.

"Our government has gone to great pains --- to
be sure that no US citizen will be tried by any
 international criminal court, for the supreme
 crime of illegal war-making.”

The US has not only refused to accept the
jurisdiction of the ICC over its own citizens.
It's gone further, pressuring other countries
 to sign Bilateral Immunity Agreements (BIA),
in which they renounce the right to refer US
citizens to the ICC for war crimes committed
on their territory.

The US has also threatened to cut off US aid to
 countries that refuse to sign them. The BIAs
 violate those countries’ own commitments
under the ICC statute, and US pressure to
sign them, has been rightly condemned:
as an outrageous effort to ensure
impunity for US war crimes.

Resistance to US Impunity

To the credit of our international neighbours, this
US strategy has met with substantial resistance.
The European Parliament overwhelmingly passed
 a resolution, stating that BIAs are incompatible
with EU membership, and urging EU- member
states and countries seeking EU membership
not to sign them.

Fifty-four countries have publicly refused to sign
 BIAs, and 24 have accepted cut-offs of US aid as
 a consequence of their refusal. Of 102 countries
that have signed a BIA, only 48 are members of
the ICC in any case ----- and only 15 of those
countries are on record as having ratified
the BIAs in their own parliaments.

Thirty-two other ICC members have apparently
 allowed BIAs to take effect without parliament-
ary ratification, but this has been challenged by
 their own country’s legal experts in many cases.

The US campaign to undermine the ICC is part
of a much broader effort by the US government
to evade all forms of accountability under the
laws that are supposed to govern international
behaviour in the modern world --- even as it
continues to masquerade as a global
 champion of the rule of law.

The treaties US policy systematically violates
 today, were crafted by US statespersons and
 diplomats, working with foreign colleagues,
to build a world where all people will enjoy
 some basic protections... from the worst
 atrocities, instead of being subject only
 to the law of the jungle or “might
makes right.”

So current US policy is a cynical betrayal of
the work and wisdom of past generations of
US citizens, as well as of countless victims
over the world to whom we are effectively
denying the protections of the UN Charter
& Geneva Conventions, the UN Convention
on the Rights of the Child, and many other
 multilateral treaties our country ignores,
violates or refuses to ratify.

Avoiding jurisdiction in international courts
 is only one of the ways that the US evades
international accountability for its criminal
behaviour. Another involves an elaborate,
 well-disguised, public relations campaign
 that exploits the powerful position of US
corporations in the world of commercial
media.

Major Propaganda Funding

The US government spends a billion dollars
per year on public relations or, more bluntly,
propaganda, including $600 million from the
 Pentagon budget. The work of its PR teams
and contractors is laundered by US news-
papers --- and repeated and analyzed ad
nauseam, by monolithic, flag-waving
 TV networks.

These profitable corporate operations monopolize
 the public airwaves in the US, and also use their
 financial clout, slick marketing, and the support
of the US State Department to maintain a power-
ful presence in foreign and international media
 markets.

Foreign media in allied countries provide further
 legitimacy and credibility to US talking-points
 and narratives as they echo around the world.
Meanwhile, Hollywood fills cinema and TV
screens across the world with an idealized,
glamorized, inspirational version of the US
that still mesmerizes many people.

This whole elaborate “information warfare”
machine presents the US as a global leader
for democracy, human rights and the rule of
law, even as it systematically and catastroph-
ically undermines those same principles. It
enables our leaders to loudly, persuasively,
 demonize other countries and their leaders
 as dangerous violators of international law,
even as the US and its allies commit far
 worse crimes.

Double Standards 


The phrase “aggressive war” is also a no-no in
 the Western media - when the US government
launches wars, across international borders.
In the past 20 years, the US has violated the
 UN Charter to attack at least eight countries
 (Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan,
Yemen, Somalia, Libya & Syria), and the
 resulting wars, have killed about
 two million people.

A complex whirlwind of conflict and chaos rages
on in all the countries where the US and its allies
 have lit the flames of war since 2001, but our US
 leaders still debate new interventions ---- and/or
 escalations as if we are the fire brigade not the
 arsonists. (By contrast, the US government and
 the Western media are quick to accuse Russia
 or other countries of “aggression” --- even in
 legally murky situations, such as after the
US-backed coup in 2014, that ousted the
elected president of Ukraine.)

Systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions
 are an integral part of US war-making. Most are
 shrouded in secrecy: the propaganda machine
spins the atrocities that slip through into the
public record, as a disconnected series of
aberrations, accidents and “bad apples,”
instead of as the result of illegal rules
of engagement and unlawful orders
 from higher-ups.

The senior officers and civilian officials who
 are criminally responsible for these crimes
in US & international law -- systematically
 abuse their powerful positions to subvert
investigations, cover up their crimes, &
avoid any accountability whatsoever.

Pinter’s Complaint

When UK playwright Harold Pinter was awarded
 the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, he bravely
 and brilliantly used his Nobel lecture to speak
about the real role the US plays in the world,
 and how it whitewashes its crimes. Pinter
recounted a meeting at the US Embassy
in London in the 1980s in which a senior
embassy official, Raymond Seitz, flatly
denied US war crimes in Nicaragua ----
for which the US was in fact, convicted
of aggression by the International Court
 of Justice (ICJ). Seitz went on to serve
as Assistant Secretary of State, US
 Ambassador to the UK, and then
Vice-Chair of Lehman Brothers.

As Pinter explained: “this ‘policy’ was by no
means restricted to Central America. It was
conducted throughout the world. It was
never-ending. And it is --- as if it never
 happened.

“The United States supported - and in many cases
 engendered every rightwing military dictatorship
 in the world, after the end of the Second World
War. I refer to:-  Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay,
Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines,
Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile.
The horror the US inflicted upon Chile in 1973
can never be purged, & can never be forgiven.

“Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place
 throughout these countries. Did... they take
place? & are they in all cases, attributable
 to US foreign policy? The answer is 'yes',
 they did take place, and are attributable
 to American foreign policy. But you
wouldn’t know it.

“It never happened. Nothing ever happened.
Even while it was happening it wasn’t happ-
ening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest.
The crimes of the United States have been
 systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless,
 but very few people have actually talked
 about them. You have to hand it to the
US. It has exercised a quite clinical
manipulation of power, worldwide,
 while masquerading... as a force
 for universal good. It’s a brilliant
 - even witty - highly successful,
act of hypnosis.”

If, in 2016, the world seems to be more violent
and chaotic than ever, it's not because the US
 lacks the will to use force or project power, as
 both major party candidates for President, &
their military advisers appear to believe, but
because our leaders have placed too much
stock in the illegal threat and use of force,
and have lost faith in the rule of law, any
international cooperation and diplomacy.

After a century of commercial dominance,
 & 75 years of investing disproportionately
 in weapons, military forces & geopolitical
 schemes, perhaps it is understandable
 that US leaders have forgotten how to
 deal fairly and respectfully with our
 international neighbours. But it's no
longer an option, to muddle along,
leaving a trail of death, ruin and
chaos in our wake, counting on
 an elaborate propaganda mach-
ine, to minimize the blowback
 on our country and our lives.

Sooner, rather than later, US citizens & our
 leaders must knuckle down and master the
 very different attitudes & skills that we will
need to become law-abiding global citizens
 in a peaceful, sustainable, multipolar world.


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Russia ends treaty limiting

plutonium production in response
to recent US escalation
of hostility

Fort Russ News - Topwar.ru - Lenta - News.Ru - 
  translated by J. Arnoldski


TopWar: On October 3rd, Russian President
 Vladimir Putin signed a decree on suspending
compliance with the agreement with the US on
 disposing weapons-grade plutonium. The main
 reason for this decision was pointed out as the
 “unfriendly attitude of the US towards Russia.”

Sources from the State Duma have reported that
 Russia is ready to resume the agreement, if the
 US cancels all the anti-Russian sanctions. Plus,
Russia demands that the US reduce its military
 contingent in Europe, before Russia resumes
 compliance with the protocols. The State
Duma’s statement reads:

“Acting according to the agreement and the
protocols of the agreement can be resumed
after the US eliminates the reasons which led
 to this radical change in circumstances: after
the US reduces its military infrastructure and
the number of its troop contingents deployed
on the territory of the NATO countries having
 joined NATO after September 1st, 2000, down
 to the level at which they were on the day that
 the agreement and its protocols entered force.

 "Since then NATO has grown to encompass 9 states
 of Eastern Europe. Just around the corner is NATO’s
 10th state to be included since 2000 - Montenegro.”

In addition, Russia has demanded, as one of its
 conditions, that Washington cancel the so-call-
ed Magnitsky Act.

We await a reaction from the US.

___________________________________________



Popov: Russia can and
should withdraw 
from
1997 treaty with Ukraine

By Eduard Popov for Fort Russ
 - translated by J. Arnoldski -

The other day, the disturbing news came from Lvov,
the unofficial capital of Ukrainian Galicia, that the
 Lvov regional council has filed a lawsuit to forcibly
 evict the Pushkin Russian Cultural Centre. As the
head of the regional council, V. Girnyak, said in his
statement, organizations tied to the Anti-Terrorist
Operation are preparing to transfer the building on
Korolenko Street. The Lvov deputies hardly expect
to earn more money from these “ATOers.” Rather,
 the eviction of Pushkin Russian Cultural Centre
 is explained by a different motive: once again,
punishing anyone ideologically representative
 of an “enemy” Russian culture.

This centre’s building was leased to the Russian
 community of Lvov, in 1990. In 1999, the then
mayor Vasiliy Kuybida, set the symbolic rent
fee of 5 hryvnia (around $1 back then).

Let us quote one founding document signed by
Ukraine, the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation,
and Partnership between the Russian Federation
 and Ukraine from May 31st, 1997. Point 12 of the
 agreement reads: “The High Agreeing Parties shall
 protect the ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious
identities of national minorities on their territory
and create conditions for the fostering of their
identity….they will contribute to creating equal
opportunities and conditions for studying the
 Russian language in Ukraine and the Ukrainian
language in the Russian Federation, training
pedagogical staff for teaching these languages
 in educational establishments, and for these
purposes, provide equal state support.”

Points 1-2 of the agreement are based on the
 recognition of the friendly relations between the
 countries and their territorial integrity. Hence why
the agreement is often called a border treaty. For
Ukraine, whose territorial sovereignty over some
territories (including Galicia, which was part of the
 Second Polish Republic until September 1939) is
 quite disputed, this agreement was a real gift. It
is no coincidence that a number of patriotic
politicians in Russia, demanded that this
document not be signed.

Russia’s recognition of Kiev’s sovereignty over
territories included in the Ukrainian state is founded
on Ukraine’s observance of the rights of its Russian-
cultured citizens. After the coup d’etat in 2014,
Ukraine began pursuing a policy of cultural genocide
(ethnocide) against the Russian-cultured population.

Now Ukraine is discussing the initiative of the
scandalously infamous politician Irina Farion, to
deprive Russian residents in Ukraine of civil rights.

In fact, this measure is already being implemented.
The number of Russian schools has rapidly declined
 while Russian organizations are being prosecuted
and their activities are under close surveillance
by
 Kiev’s intelligence services.

In accordance with the 1997 treaty, an entire
 network of federal & regional organizations of
Ukrainians is funded in Russia. For example,

 in the Rostov region there is a city-level and
regional national-cultural autonomy of Ukrainians.

 The organization receives funding from the city
 and regional budgets. Its head, the businessman
Makarchuk, is a member of the Public Chamber of
 the Rostov region and is proud of his friendship
 with Rostov governor Vasili Golubev. Meanwhile,
Makarchuk is published on the website of the
Ukrainian neo-Nazi Svoboda party and
 frequently makes Russophobic statements.


Unfortunately, Russia is largely to blame for the fact
 that the civil rights of Russian-cultured people in
Ukraine are being massively violated. An example
of this is the patronizing policy of Rostov region's
authorities. But on the federal level as well, the
state does not make sufficient (or any) efforts
 to defend the Russian population of Ukraine
 (nearly half of the country’s total population).

Meanwhile, a more responsible attitude towards
 obligations would lead to discussion of the 1997
treaty. In a situation in which the second country
(Ukraine), massively violates the treaty’s basic
premises, then Russia has the right to withdraw
 from the treaty with all the legal and political
implications. I see no reason for the Russian
budget to support the activities of Ukrainian
 organizations in Russia, or recognize the
 territorial sovereignty of Ukraine.


____________________________________



WHITE HELMETS -- SHAM

The Ron Paul Institute has pointed out: “We
have demonstrated that the White Helmets
are an integral part of the propaganda van-
guard, that ensures obscurantism of fact
and propagation of Human Rights fiction
 that elicits the well-intentioned and self
 righteous response from a very cleverly
 duped public. A priority for these NGOs
 is to keep pushing the No Fly Zone
scenario which has already been
 seen to have disastrous implications
 for innocent civilians in Libya, for
 example.”

What better chance to push “the No Fly Zone
 scenario” than arriving within “moments” of
the convoy tragedy, filming it and creating a
propaganda scenario before any meaningful
forensic investigation could even be started,
 since the trucks were still burning. And of
course, the “White Helmets”, aka “Syrian
Defence Force”, were filming, rather than
 attempting to put out the fire and rescue
those in the burning trucks.

[Ed. Yet the UK's Guardian, that snivelling wreckage
of a "Liberal" newspaper, lies, & describes them as
"the White Helmets, a volunteer rescue group,"
quotes their accusations of Syrian & Russian
"constant bombing of civilians" and calls for
a "no-fly-zone" now --- as in Libya.]


The Russian Defence Ministry subsequently
caused outrage by claiming that their Drone
 footage: “shows the bombed Syrian aid
convoy
included a truck full of militant
fighters
carrying mortar guns.”


However: “The footage emerged as the United
 Nations rowed back from describing the attack
 on the aid convoy as air strikes, saying it did
 not have conclusive evidence about what
 had happened.”

It must be asked, why on earth, after long and
 protracted negotiations over the convoy would
 Syria and or their Russian ally risk the wrath of
the US & “coalition”, and of further decimation
of the country, by laying themselves open to
 accusations of bombing aid convoys?

The tragedy has emphatically achieved 1 thing,
 however. Wiped from the headlines, is another
 atrocity - the US bombing which killed over 60
 Syrian soldiers and wounded over 100 others,
 just two days earlier, on Saturday 17th Sept.
 - causing Russian Foreign Ministry spokes-
woman Maria Zakharova, to comment: “We
 are reaching a really terrifying conclusion
for the whole world: That the White House
 is defending Islamic State. Now there can
be no doubts about that”, according to
 the RIA Novosti news agency.

Again - Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who will guard the guards?


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US prepares an
Islamic army in Kosovo


Pravda.Ru - The US is preparing a reserve echelon
 in the territory of its Kosova enclave. But to keep
a secure strategic space, the Southern Serbian
provinces may be separated from Kosovo. Given
the total apathy of the authorities of Republika
Srpska... this plan is inching closer to its
 implementation.

The goal of the Americans is clear: if Berlin's
discontent ousts US bases from Germany,
after all, the US will have a spot in Kosovo.
It's no secret that the crime and terrorist
 mayhem plaguing Kosovo, is under the
patronage of the US.

Yelena Guskova, a Senator, and member of the
 Academy of Sciences of the Republika Srpska
 (Bosnia and Herzegovina), honoured with many
 Russian and Serbian state awards, commented
to Pravda.Ru on this matter, in an interview.

Former Commander of the French foreign legion
 in Kosovo -- General Jacques Ogar, has recently
confirmed to Pravda.Ru, evidence obtained from
confidential US sources -- that there are at least
 five ISIS training camps in Kosovo, which are
preparing suicide bombers and an army of
Islamists to conquer Europe.

Having found no evidence that proved
Milosevic was guilty, the Hague tribunal
 exonerated him. What do you think of it?

Slobodan Milosevic is a very significant historical
 person in Serbia's modern history, and the whole
of Yugoslavia. In the early 1990s he was seen as
 the last communist in Europe -- who should be
 annihilated. His own country turned him over
 to the Hague; the so-called new government
 -- after the colour revolution of 2000.

However he was a leader who defended his country
 and the truth. He combated a large amount of lies
at the Tribunal, which tried to prove that only the
 Serbs were guilty of all the events of the 1990s,
 as they were charged with collective crimes.

No leader of the Muslim territories of Yugoslavia was
 convicted, only Serbian ones. The figure of Milosevic
 was very important, but they didn't manage to find
 any evidence.

His brother Borislav Milosevic says they secretly
 took some samples of food and water Slobodan
 had been given and tested it in Moscow. And it
 turned out that poison had been added. And it
was difficult to breathe for him, which means
that something was infiltrated into the air.

Then he stopped eating, but the process had been
 launched. His death is mysterious but the Tribunal
admitted that he was not responsible for crimes
in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Colonel Jacques Ogar, who was Commander of
a foreign legion in the territory of Yugoslavia in
 the UN group admits that they were ordered to
stand for the Kosovars against the Serbians...
Western troops openly supported separatists
 and participated in punitive actions against
the Serbians. Do you have such data?

Surely. I'm a Head of the Centre for the Study of the
 Contemporary Balkan Crisis at the Russian Academy
of Sciences. Our main task is to collect documents
 and publish them. There occur more and more
 documents on the events since 1990, which
confirm it.

It's absolutely clear that international organizations
 were biased. The Albanians approach their dream -
to create a big country with an Albanian population
 only. The US has worked a lot to support this
 movement, as Kosovo is a project of the US.

And they would have got independence long ago,
 unless it was for Russia. Russia said No to their
 plans in 2007. it disturbed them, and now they
 do not influence Russia, but try to govern the
Serbian authorities. But I think the process
hasn't been completed, & there's a chance
 to return Kosovo to Serbia.

As they say, there are 8 ISIS training camps in
 the territory of Kosovo. It is reported that they
 train suicide bombers to carry out acts in the
 Western Europe and create a whole army to
 conquer it. How can you comment on this?

When huge flows of refugees were going across
 the Balkans in Europe, there were mainly young
men and almost no couples. They were well-
dressed, were going by three, and had enough
means to live in decent hotels. It is clear that
 there are those among them who should stay
 in the Balkans & orchestrate implementation
 of their leaders' aims.

As the Serbian officials struggle to join the EU,
they implemented all the terms. And they were
 told, to not only to let in these refugees, but
also to build camps for them. Many stayed
 in the South, where the population is
majority Muslim . A great quantity
went to Kosovo and Metohija.

And there's an uncontrolled NATO base Bondsteel
 there, where enormous resources are deployed.
This territory is not controlled by anyone. And
when questions of the US military camps in
 Europe occur, no one speaks of Kosovo.

In Kosovo's camps, where terrorists are trained,
they are set absolutely free. It's very dangerous
for the whole of Europe, and the Balkans first of
all. The US, though, wants to whip Serbia into
 submission and recognize the independence
 of Kosovo and Metohija.

 In Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika
 Srpska, and Serbians who reside there, are
 hampering these plans.

There is evidence that, as early as in the mid-
1990s the US aimed to go down to the Balkans
when the agreement with Germany terminated
 if they had to leave. They need a territory in
Bosnia & Herzegovina, in Kosovo, Metohija,
Montenegro, Serbia & Macedonia. Republika
Srpska hampers implementation of this plan
 today.

They need to annihilate the Republic and make
the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina a unitary
 state. They didn't manage to conduct a colour
revolution in the Republika Srpska, while the
 terror acts, which may be backed by Muslims
in other territories, may be fruitful.

These plans may come forward in the nearest
future, and it's a threat for the whole of Serbia.
As there is a plan to separate the Southern
regions of Serbia, where a lot of Albanians
and Muslims reside. Today Serbian officials
 regard these refugees calmly, as well as
capable of possible terrorist acts. But it
should be paid 'special attention'.

Interview by Alexandre Artamonov

_____________________________________



Shocking: South Korean
Death Camps Uncovered

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US/UK elite
bankrolled A. Hitler


Germans were paid in company shares for loans
 that managed Germany's war reparations -- thus
 US capital began to actively integrate into the
 German economy.

The total amount of foreign investment in German
 industry during 1924-1929 amounted to almost 63
 billion gold Marks (30 billion was accounted for by
 loans), and the payment of reparations — 10 billion
 Marks. 70% of revenues were provided by bankers
 from the US, and most banks were from JP Morgan.

As a result, in 1929, German industry was in second
 place in the world, but it was largely in the hands of
 the USA's leading financial-industrial groups.

"Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie", main
 supplier of the German war machine, financed 45%
 of the election campaign of Hitler in 1930, and was
 under the control of Rockefeller's "Standard oil".

 Morgan, through "General Electric", controlled the
 German radio and electrical industry, via AEG and
 Siemens (up to 1933, 30% of the shares of AEG
were owned by "General Electric") and through
 the Telecom company ITT — 40% of the 'phone
 network in Germany.

In addition, they owned a 30% stake in the air-
craft manufacturing company "Focke-Wulf".

"General Motors", belonging to the DuPont
 family, established control over "Opel".

Henry Ford controlled 100% of the shares of
  Volkswagen. In 1926, with the participation
 of the Rockefeller Bank, Dillon, Reed & Co,
 the second largest  industrial monopoly in
 Germany, after I.G Farben, merged with
 metals group, "Vereinigte Stahlwerke"
 (Steel trust) plus Thyssen, Flick,
 Wolff, Feglera etc.

US co-operation with Germany's military-
industrial complex, was so intense and
 pervasive, that by 1933, the key sectors
 of German industry, & large banks such
 as the Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank,
Donat Bank, etc, were all under the
control of US financial capital.

The political force that was intended to
 play a crucial role in the Anglo-American
 plans was being simultaneously prepared.

We are talking about the funding of
 the Nazi party and A. Hitler personally.

As former German Chancellor Brüning wrote in
 his memoirs, from 1923, Hitler received large
 sums from abroad. Where they went, is not
known, but they were received through
 Swiss and Swedish banks.

 It is also known that, in 1922 in Munich, a
meeting took place between A. Hitler and
the military attache of the US to Germany
 -- Captain Truman Smith -- who compiled
 a detailed report for his Washington
superiors (in the office of military
intelligence), in which he spoke
 highly of Hitler.

Through Smith's circle of acquaintances, A.
Hitler was introduced to Ernst Franz Sedgwick
 Hanfstaengl, (Putzie), --- a graduate of Harvard
 University who played an important role in the
 formation of A. Hitler as a politician, rendered
 him significant financial support, and secured
 for him, acquaintance & communication with,
 senior British figures.

Hitler was prepared politically, but, as Germany
reigned in prosperity, his party remained on the
 periphery of public life... The situation changed
 dramatically with the beginning of 'the crisis'.

In the autumn of 1929, the collapse of the US
 stock exchange was triggered by the Federal
 Reserve, and the next stage of the Anglo-US
financial circles' strategy, had started.

The Federal Reserve and JP Morgan, decided to
 stop lending to Germany --- inspired by the bank
 crisis & economic depression in Central Europe.

 In September 1931, England abandoned the gold
 standard, deliberately destroying international
 payments systems and completely cutting off
 "financial oxygen" to the Weimar Republic.

But a financial miracle occurred for the Nazi
party: in September 1930 as a result of large
 donations by Thyssen and I.G. Farben --- the
 party got 6.4 million votes & took 2nd place
 in the Reichstag;- after this, more generous
 investments from abroad were activated.

The main link between the major German
 industrialists and foreign financiers,
 became H. Schacht.

On January 4th, 1932, a meeting was held
 with the largest English financier, a Mr M.
Norman, A. Hitler, and von Papen, which
concluded a secret agreement on the
financing of the NSDAP.

 This meeting was also attended by US
 policy-makers, the Dulles brothers ---
 something their biographers do not
 like to mention.

On January 14th, 1933, a meeting between
 Hitler, Schroder, Papen & Kepler took place,
 where Hitler's program was fully approved. It
 was here that they finally resolved the issue
 of the transfer of power to the Nazis, and on
 30th January, A. Hitler became Chancellor.

The implementation of the next
 stage of the strategy thus began.

The attitude of Anglo-American ruling circles
 to the new government was very sympathetic.
 When Hitler refused to pay reparations, which
 naturally called into question the payment of
war debts, neither the UK or France pressed
 their payment claims.

Moreover, after a visit to the US in May 1933,
 H. Schacht was placed, again, at the head of
the Reichsbank, and, after his meeting with
the President and the biggest bankers on
Wall Street, the US allocated Germany
new loans --- totalling $1 billion.

In June, during a trip to London & a meeting
with M. Norman, Schacht sought an English
 loan of $2 billion and a reduction and then
the cessation of payments, on old loans.

Thus, the Nazis got what they could not
 achieve with the previous government.

In the summer of 1934, Britain signed the Anglo-
German transfer agreement, which became one
 of the foundations of British policy towards the
Third Reich, &, at the end of the 30's, Germany
 became the main trading partner of England.

Schroeder Bank became Germany's main agent
in the UK & in 1936 his New York office teamed
 up with the Rockefellers, to create Schroeder,
 Rockefeller & Co. investment Bank, which the
Times magazine called the Berlin-Rome
"economic propagandist axis".

As Hitler himself admitted, he conceived his 4-
year plan on the basis of foreign financial loans,
so it never inspired him with the slightest alarm.

In August 1934, US Standard oil acquired
 730,000 acres of land in Germany... then
 built large oil refineries which supplied
 the Nazis with oil.

At the same time, Germany secretly took
delivery of the most modern equipment
 for aircraft factories, from the US, which
would begin producing German planes.

Germany gained large numbers of military
patents from US firms Pratt and Whitney,
Douglas, and Curtis Wright --- and it was
US technology, building the Junkers-87.

In 1941 --- as world war ll was raging ---
 US investments in Germany's economy 
amounted to $475 million. Standard oil
 invested - 120 million, General motors -
$35 million, ITT - $30 million, and Ford
 - $17.5 million.

The close financial & economic co-operation
 of Anglo-American and Nazi business circles,
was the backdrop against which, in the 30's,
 a policy of appeasement led to world war II.

Today, as the world's financial elite begins
 to implement the 'Great depression 2' plan
with its subsequent transition to the "new
world order", identifying its key role in the
 organization of crimes against humanity,
becomes a priority.

Yuri Rubtsov is a doctor of historical
 sciences, academician of the Academy
 of military sciences, & a member of the
 International Association of historians
 of world war II.

Results of UN vote condemning glorification of fascism

US spokesman protects Israeli nuclear weapons



US WARNS AGAINST IAEA MOVE ON ISRAEL

The US is protesting at a report by the IAEA
voicing concern over Israel's clandestine
nuclear
program & its potential capability.


"Israel's fully cooperated with the IAEA,"
a State Department spokesperson says.

They note that Washington believes that
the agency is "not the forum" to discuss
Israel's
accession to the nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty.


"We believe there is really no basis for
a debate
at the IAEA," they insist.


In Washington's view, any IAEA step
is unnecessary since it could..........

"interrupt progress we think is possible
now we're back into direct negotiations"
between Israel & the Palestinian Authority.

What the US might be forgetting is that all
states
in the world & all in the Middle East
want
Israel in the NPT, and a nuclear-free
Middle East.


The Egyptian government, on behalf of
all the Non-Alignment Movement states,

demands that there be an exhaustive
report
on Israel's nuclear arsenals.


The Tel Aviv regime refuses to confirm
or deny possessing nuclear weapons
but is widely
believed to possess over
200 nuclear warheads.


Having endorsed Israel's policy of "nuclear
ambiguity" for 40 years, the US is warning
the Arab states against renewing efforts to
focus on Israel, at the next IAEA meeting.



Leonard Peltier


FREE POLITICAL PRISONER LEONARD PELTIER NOW!!!

Indigenous rights activist Leonard Peltier, 
  in prison in the US for 38 years, received
the first international human rights prize
of Uruguay's Mario Benedetti Foundation.

At a ceremony in Montevideo, where the
winner was announced, the human rights
group calls Peltier the longest-serving
political prisoner in the Americas, AFP
reports.

Peltier, a Native American activist who
was a member of the American Indian
Movement (AIM), was convicted in 1977
for the alleged murder of  two US FBI
agents during a 1975 shootout on the
Pine Ridge Reservation in S. Dakota.

He was sentenced to 2 consecutive
terms of life imprisonment.

"Leonard Peltier, who on September 12th, 2014,
turned 70, has spent over half his life in prison.
He's a symbol of resistance to repressive state
policies by the US, where there are people in
jail for ethnic, racial,
religious & ideological 
reasons," the foundation's statement says.

Ricardo Elena, a member of the foundation's
honorary board, says Peltier's case "is one
that is repeated over and over: violation (of
rights), persecution, eviction, invasion and
expropriation of indigenous people, from
the time it was 'discovered', until now.

"It doesn't just happen in the United States;
it is happening in southern South America,
with the (indigenous) Mapuche people, and
with indigenous people in North America,"
he states.

Elena says the United States "likes to think
it's the seat of democracy, but it has political
prisoners just like a dictatorship might have."

The Mario Benedetti Foundation was founded
to support human rights and cultural causes
in line with the work of the Uruguayan writer
after whom it was named, who died in 2009.

Peltier is incarcerated at the United States
Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

James Swan, the head of the Black Hills chapter
of the United Urban Warrior Society - a nonprofit
group that helps Native Americans fight racial
discrimination and injustice - describes Peltier
as a political prisoner whose case needs to be
reviewed by an independent body.

"What we want people to realize is that this
is an injustice," AP quotes Swan as saying.

Peltier, 66, was given two life sentences in
'77, on false charges of killing 2 FBI agents.

Peltier asserts that he is innocent and
the FBI framed him for political reasons,
especially for his activities as a member
of the Native American Movement. He
has lodged numerous appeals against
the conviction - but all unsuccessfully.

He's been denied parole again and
again, and will not be eligible for it
again until 2024, when he turns 79.

Peltier's relatives say he suffers a
number of health problems such as
diabetes, arthritis, and the loss of
vision in an eye after a minor stroke.

Many activists say Leonard Peltier is
the most important political prisoner
in the US.

In a review of the US' human rights record,
at a United Nations Human Rights Council
UPR conference in Geneva, a group called
for a new trial for him.

The US Human Rights Network filed a 423-page
submission to the Geneva meeting about him.

One item, entitled “Political Repression -
Political Prisoners,” about 19
70's cases,
indicts the FBI: accusing COINTELPRO of
“maiming, murdering, false prosecutions
and frame-ups, destruction and mayhem
throughout the country.”

It cites the FBI for targeting the Puerto Rican
Independence Front, the Black Panther Party,
the Weather Underground, the American Indian
Movement, the Black Liberation Army, as well
as “peace activists and everyone in between,”
  and says “many of today's political prisoners”
in the US were jailed indefinitely as a result.

Repression has grown since 9/11, it says.

The political repression paper demands an
“immediate criminal investigation into the
conspiracy,”
and also new trials for two
aged activists jailed on
murder charges,
Mumia Abu Jamal and Leonard Peltier.






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