[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Ukraine has asked to take charge of two Royal Navy warships and said it would defeat Putin faster if it was allowed to fire British missiles into Russia.
The head of the Ukrainian navy, Vice Admiral Oleksiy Neizhpapa, suggested his sailors could take over the two Royal Navy warships at risk of being retired early due to staff shortages within the British military branch.
He added that it was a 'war of technologies' that would be won by the nation with the most technologically advanced weapons, which Ukraine could get supplied by western nations.
'We must have the capabilities to make sure that Russia will give up forever the thought of even looking in Ukraine's direction, including at sea,' he told SkyNews.
In and around Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine has had significant military success against Vladimir Putin's much larger Black Sea naval fleet, destroying ships and a submarine as well as infrastructure.
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OK, I'll bite. What if the Russians maybe shoot back and sink a Uke/Brit warship?
Ya know, sinking someone's warships is ground for going to war. Possibly this is what the Ukes want...
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I'm afraid it's their only chance.
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i have no idea how this ends but while its ongoing it is a good sandbox for our weapons.
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[RIA] "Russians are coming!" — for a whole century after the start of using this standard horror story, the West has not come up with a more effective strategy for winning elections.
“The Nazis are coming!” worked for a few years in the middle, but do go on.
In Albion, the issue was first brought into play in 1924, when the Conservative establishment concocted a fake "Zinoviev letter" to undermine the first Labor government. And now, exactly a hundred years later, in Britain, standing on the threshold of another election campaign, the Tories have launched the same record. True, they immediately went too far, meeting a bewildered reaction from the public.
The hysterical wave was started by British Defense Minister Grant Shapps, who, since Christmas, has been shouting about the “Russian threat” that Britain must resist “ at any cost.” He then predicted an inevitable war with Russia, China or Iran “within the next five years,” demanding that society begin preparing for it. And then everything went from strength to strength.
The activity of the Minister of Defense in the media field is understandable. There is no longer any doubt that parliamentary elections will be scheduled for the fall. Polls show Shapps, who has won every election in his constituency by a comfortable margin since 2005, is trailing his Labor rival by a significant margin this time around. This means that in the fall he will not only lose his ministerial chair (no one doubts the defeat of the conservatives), but will also be thrown out of big politics altogether. So he tries as best he can to attract the attention of the press.
But, to his misfortune, the army decided to pick up this same narrative. Last week, the top officer in the British Armed Forces, Chief of the General Staff, General Patrick Sanders, gave a fiery speech about Britain's unpreparedness for a ground war with Russia. He called for taking into account the mistakes of 1914 and 1930, so as not to wait for the start of war and to prepare our citizens in advance to counter imminent aggression. Referring to the example of Ukraine, the general concluded his speech like this: “Regular armies start wars, civilian armies win them!”
To be honest, it is not entirely clear how the example of Ukraine supports this conclusion. Sanders refers to the experience of creating and training the territorial defense of Ukraine. But even with a very strong desire, it is difficult to find signs of “victory” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, where passers-by caught on the streets are now being forcibly pushed. However, the British commander managed to find some positive in this.
The general just picked up the theme “The Russians are coming!” from your minister. Moreover, he actually repeated the theses of his own speech last year that Britain is now in the situation of 1937. But the election campaign had not yet begun, and therefore few people paid attention to this speech. Now everything is perceived completely differently.
Retired General Richard Shirreff, who once served as deputy commander of NATO forces in Europe, immediately came out in support of Sanders. At one time, he wrote a mediocre book that predicted a war between the West and Russia as early as 2017. Since then, he has been obsessed with the theme of the inevitable war against the Russians. Hot on the heels of Sanders, he immediately called for the resumption of compulsory military conscription in Britain, “to scare Russia.” Really, how else can we be scared?
And the coming “civil army” immediately found its first volunteer. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared on the pages of the Daily Mail newspaper with a column in which he expressed his readiness to enlist in the service, adding to the online version of the article a corresponding video in the style of the good soldier Schweik. At the same time, I found an excellent recipe for attracting the same volunteers: you just need to lift the ban on tattoos in the army - the British are told in all seriousness that this is the only thing holding back the recruitment of volunteers.
But such statements caused the opposite reaction, noticeably frightening the public. Even conservative newspapers are now filled with cartoons ridiculing the idea of compulsory conscription. And The Times feuilletonist Gilles Corin, under the headline “The Russians are coming!” proposed using numerous London baristas to prepare for war with Russia, who could use their experience in mixing cocktails to produce explosives, but he himself expressed his unwillingness to fight with the Russians.
Judging by a poll by the Daily Star newspaper, 90 percent of Britons, like Coren, do not want to enlist in the “citizen army”. And one of the viewers who called the television studio where this idea was being discussed timidly asked: “Can I serve in the civilian army remotely without leaving home?”
Of course, such a public reaction does not fit into the Tory plans. Realizing that they had gone too far in promoting the next “Russian threat,” government officials rushed to explain that they did not intend to revive compulsory military service. But we need to understand the specificity of the moment. Conservatives are in more than desperate straits. Now we are no longer talking about their victory - they themselves do not believe in it. We are talking about the survival of the Conservative Party as such based on the results of the upcoming elections.
The experience of the last hundred years shows that in such moments of crisis the Tories have never found anything better than promoting the next “The Russians are coming!” campaign. This means that we can expect much more serious fakes and provocations than was the case exactly a hundred years ago with the notorious “Zinoviev’s letter.”
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The British are coming! The British are coming!
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[LB] However, the enemy continues assaults and attacks in all other directions.
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In the Kupian direction, the occupiers continue their assaults in the areas of Sinkivka, Tabaivka, Pischany of the Kharkiv region and Stelmakhivka of the Luhansk region. Over the course of a week, defenders repelled about 40 assaults, General Staff spokesman Andriy Kovalev said on the air of the telethon.
In the Lyman direction, the Defense Forces repulsed more than 50 assaults on positions in the areas of Makiivka, Serebryansk Forestry and Belogorivka of the Luhansk Region, Terniv, east of Dibrova, Yampolivka, and Torsky of the Donetsk Region.
In the direction of Bakhmut, the occupiers carried out assaults in the areas of Vasyukivka, Bohdanivka, Ivanivskyi, Klishchiivka and Andriivka of the Donetsk region, where the Defense Forces repelled more than 45 assaults.
In the Avdiyivka direction, the occupiers advanced in the Avdiivka area, where they carried out about 140 attacks on the positions of the defenders in the Ocheretyny, Novobakhmutivka, Stepovoy, Avdiyvka districts, to the north of Opytny, Severny, Tonenkoy, Pervomaisky, and Nevelsky. According to the spokesman, Ukrainian soldiers "inflicted considerable losses on the enemy" in terms of manpower and heavy weapons.
In the Mariinsky direction, the enemy continues offensive actions in the areas of Georgiyivka, Pobyeda, and Novomykhailivka. Units of the Defense Forces repelled about 120 attacks.
On the Shakhtarsky direction, the defenders repelled more than 10 enemy attempts to improve the tactical position southeast of Vodyanyi, south of Zoloty Niva and Staromayorsky of the Donetsk region.
In Zaporizhzhia, the occupiers carried out almost 20 attacks north of Priyutny, south of Krasnoy, west of Vervovoy and Robotyny.
In the Kherson direction, the occupiers focused on conducting defense, improving mine and explosive barriers and ways of logistical support. The occupiers continue to carry out airstrikes and artillery fire on army positions and settlements in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. At the same time, the Russians are trying to dislodge the defenders from the bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnipro River, where the enemy launched about 35 attacks.
During the past week, more than 500 combat clashes took place. The Russians launched 76 rockets and about 310 airstrikes.
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[Korrespondent] 22:47 Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly will visit Poland in the coming days on a working visit, during which she will discuss further support for Ukraine, the Canadian Foreign Ministry said.
22:44 Ukraine and Germany held a two-day round of negotiations to conclude bilateral security obligations. They, in particular, discussed the wording of the key provisions of the document, the press service of the Ukrainian president reports. The topic of long-term support for Ukraine was also raised during the negotiations.
22:26 At the second Global Peace Summit, Ukraine is ready to consider inviting representatives of Russia, said the head of the OP Andriy Ermak at a press conference with the heads of the Foreign Ministries of Ukraine and Hungary in Uzhgorod. However, according to him, first you need to create a general plan, and only after that you can think about conversations with the Russian Federation. He also added that in order to participate in these negotiations, Russia must have the political will for peace.
22:19 The Netherlands is allocating 122 million euros to Ukraine for ammunition, weapons and cybersecurity, the country’s government reported. In particular, 87 million euros are provided for the purchase of artillery shells, another 25 million will be transferred to the International Fund for Ukraine (IFU) for the purchase of weapons. In addition, 10 million euros will be allocated for cyber defense of Ukraine.
21:57 Since the beginning of this month, Russian planes have “dropped” six aerial bombs on the territory of the Belgorod region alone. So far the occupiers are lucky: the bombs fell and did not explode. Read more in the article How Russian planes bomb their own villages.
21:43 EU representatives agreed on a preliminary proposal from the European Commission on the use of income from frozen assets of the Russian Federation, the Belgian representation reported.
21:18 Luxembourg, which is one of the leaders of the IT coalition, also joined the F-16 coalition, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said following an online conversation with Luxembourg Prime Minister Luke Frieden.
20:34 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he held a conference call and listened to reports from all areas of government work: “The military - on the situation at the front, in each area of intense fighting. Intelligence - current issues. Special attention, of course, to what is being done the enemy, how he puts pressure on his satellites. A separate conversation concerns drones: issues of production, supply, security of units. This is one of the main tasks of the year - to stay ahead of the enemy in the quality of work with drones. The more successful Ukrainian drones, from FPV to strategic, the more lives We will save our warriors."
18:50 Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó called for increased efforts so that people in Ukraine can live calmly in peace: “We condemn the war and want peace to come to our neighborhood as soon as possible. We must talk more intensively in international politics about the need peace."
18:29 The Russians fired from the Grad MLRS at the town of Znob-Novgorodskoye, Shostkinsk district, Sumy region - three people were killed, one was wounded, the OVA reported. Six private residential buildings, a New Post office, an industrial enterprise, a store, and a power line were damaged.
17:52 Of the less than 100 Leopard-2 tanks transferred to Ukraine, at least 26 were knocked out, others cannot now be used due to problems with repair and maintenance, writes Foreign Affairs. At the same time, according to the publication, during the summer counteroffensive these tanks “showed good results, but were hardly an invulnerable superweapon.”
17:24 Ukraine has taken a “powerful step” to prepare for the meeting between Zelensky and Orban, said the head of the OP Andriy Ermak following a meeting with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó: “Today both sides absolutely clearly said that there is an interest in holding a meeting at the level of the Prime Minister Hungary and the President of Ukraine, and today we have taken a very powerful step towards this meeting."
17:18 Public accounts write about a blow to the location of Russians in the area of the Druzhba Sports Palace in Donetsk. Eyewitnesses report that military vehicles are burning nearby. Meanwhile, the “mayor’s office” of Donetsk stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired eight rockets from the MLRS at the Kalininsky district of the city, allegedly killing three civilians and injuring one.
16:50 Putin and Lukashenko signed a decree on the creation of a media company of the “union state”. Lukashenko said that a single media holding “will help in the information struggle with the West.”
16:27 In the Donetsk region, a decision has been made to force the evacuation of two more communities from the villages - Maryinskaya (Antonovka, Ilyinka, Zoryanoye, Alexandropol, Zhelannye Second) and Ocheretinskaya (Mezhevoye, Voskhod, Novoselovka Pervaya and Zhelannye), said the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
15:59 Advisor to the Hungarian Prime Minister Balazs Orban said that on January 27, Budapest sent a new proposal to Brussels, which could be a compromise on the issue of providing Ukraine with 50 billion euros. According to him, Hungary is “open to using the EU budget for Ukraine and even issuing common debt to finance it, if other clauses are added that will give Budapest the opportunity to change its mind later.”
15:24 The defense concern Rheinmetall “in record time” will build a new ammunition production plant in Germany to ensure the strategic security of supplies of shells, including to Ukraine, said the company’s general director Armin Papperger.
14:37 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, they discussed the course of hostilities and the current defense needs of Ukraine, especially in air defense and artillery.
14:31 Putin will visit Turkey in February, the topic of “Ukrainian settlement” will be one of the key ones in negotiations with Erdogan, said Russian Presidential Assistant Yuri Ushakov. He added that Moscow is supposedly ready for negotiations, but Kyiv does not want them.
14:26 The head of the EU foreign policy service, Josep Borrell, said that “there is no light at the end of the Ukrainian tunnel”: “The war continues, and the fighting is only intensifying, and we do not see the light at the end of the Ukrainian tunnel.” According to him, European sanctions "have significantly weakened the Russian military machine, but it still exists."
13:44 In the Donetsk region, four people were wounded over the past 24 hours, the National Police reported. Six settlements were damaged, 32 civilian facilities were damaged - 17 residential buildings, a kindergarten, a school, an enterprise, a garage, cars, a gas pipeline, and a power line. In particular, three people were injured in Mirnograd as a result of a strike by three rockets, another person was injured in Ocheretino during artillery shelling.
The Russians hit Konstantinovka with two S-300 missiles, after which they shelled the city with artillery. There is destruction on the territory of the enterprise. In addition, at night the Russian army again hit Mirnograd with three missiles - 19 private houses and two educational institutions were damaged.
13:10 American inspectors arrived in Ukraine to check the assistance provided. US Ambassador Bridget Brink clarified that these are three inspectors general of the Department of Defense, the State Department and USAID. “Their meetings with implementers, partners and the Ukrainian government will contribute to strengthening oversight and accountability with U.S. assistance to Ukraine,” she said.
12:57 The Russians hit Nikopol in the Dnepropetrovsk region with artillery - two young guys, 19 and 21 years old, were wounded, one of them is in serious condition, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak.
12:28 According to British intelligence, Russian ground forces from the beginning of a full-scale war until January 25, 2024 lost about 2,600 main battle tanks and 4,900 other armored combat vehicles in Ukraine. Moreover, in 2023, the Russians lost approximately 40% less equipment than in 2022. Analysts explain this by the positional nature of the war last year, as well as by the fact that the Russian Federation spent a significant part of the year in a defensive position.
12:12 Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto arrived in Uzhgorod with his team. The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Ermak and Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba begin a meeting with the Hungarian delegation. The OP reported that “a frank and constructive dialogue is expected to improve relations between states.”
11:58 The Western press is again raising the question of introducing a “military Schengen” system by NATO countries. In particular, The Times writes that senior Alliance generals are warning of possible Russian strikes on targets in Europe, so the bloc is rushing to introduce this system. Read more in the article Is War Possible?
11:21 Zelensky said in an interview with ARD that he asked the military and people’s deputies that the new draft law on mobilization would exclude “the chances of the TCC to walk the streets”: “It is very wrong for representatives of the military registration and enlistment offices to walk the streets and look for guys who did not come to the military registration and enlistment offices. But "Here I would like us to be fair and honest. There are such cases, but this is absolutely wrong, they should not do this." According to the president, “today there are opportunities to use the digital format... so there is no problem solving this issue in a modern way.”
11:05 The head of the Bundestag Defense Committee, Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, called on France to supply Ukraine with more weapons. According to her, “there is a big discrepancy between support for Ukraine in the media and what France actually supplies to Ukraine in the form of weapons.” She said France's contribution was "still very small" compared to the country's military capabilities. At the same time, Germany provides up to 50% of all aid to Ukraine received from the EU. Strack-Zimmermann added that Germany "always verbally unjustifiably understates its support, while other countries talk a lot about less support."
10:49 In the Belgorod region, Russian Aerospace Forces planes dropped two more FAB-250 aerial bombs, the opposition Russian publication Astra reported. So, on January 27, an aerial bomb was discovered in the village of Postnikov, Korochansky district. Residents decided not to evacuate. On the same day, the same aerial bomb was found in the village of Streletskoye, Belgorod region. The bomb was found on Lesnaya Street, and authorities evacuated about 150 people living within a 500-meter radius of the bomb site. Both bombs were defused the next day, no people were injured.
10:26 The speaker of the Ground Forces, Vladimir Fityo, denied information from Russian propagandists about the alleged capture of Tabaevka in the Kupyansky direction: “The fact that the enemy is now boasting about Tabaevka in his public pages is not true. There are military operations taking place there, so the enemy did not capture any Tabaevka. Therefore "These minimal advances in this territory are all that the invaders could do. And on our part, the main thing is to save the lives of the military personnel." According to him, if the Ukrainian Armed Forces have the opportunity to retreat to better positions in order to take up defensive positions and then move on to offensive actions and improve the tactical position, then this will be done.
As for the loss of Krakhmalny, according to Fityo, it is not so important for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, because the Defense Forces have moved to more advantageous positions.
09:57 Zelensky said in an interview with the German TV channel ARD that without the United States, Europe will not be able to provide Ukraine with the level of assistance that it received before. The President emphasized that if the processes to support Ukraine in the United States are delayed, this will have an impact on a united Europe: “And there are consistent problems here. The first is the shortage of weapons and finances in Ukraine. The second is the alliance between the United States and Europe will be lost. The third is Europe “she will understand that this is a signal that if Ukraine does not hold out and Putin goes forward, this is a signal from the United States that Europe will remain alone among the NATO countries who will resist Russia.”
Zelensky also announced the size of the Ukrainian army, calling it “millions” and clarifying that we are talking about 880 thousand people. According to him, about 30 million people are now working, and another 6.5 to 7.5 million left after the start of a full-scale war.
09:08 The Financial Times writes, with reference to the draft document, that the EU is preparing a blow to the Hungarian economy if it again blocks aid to Ukraine at the summit on February 1. Thus, in the event of a new demarche from Budapest, EU leaders will have to publicly promise to stop funding it “forever.” This could “scare the markets, trigger a flight of the forint from the country and a sharp increase in the cost of its borrowing,” the publication writes.
The purpose of these measures is supposedly to "target Hungary's economic weaknesses, threaten its currency and cause a collapse in investor confidence." And also “damage jobs and economic growth.”
Hungarian Minister for EU Affairs Janos Boka, commenting on this information, said that “Budapest will not succumb to blackmail.” According to him, Brussels is using access to EU funds to exert political pressure. “Hungary does not see a connection between support for Ukraine and access to EU resources and will not allow others to do so,” Boka said.
08:49 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of January 29:
personnel - about 383,180 (+1070) people,
tanks - 6290 (+10),
armored combat vehicles - 11,696 (+25),
artillery systems - 9113 (+16),
MLRS - 972 (+0),
air defense systems - 660 (+0),
aircraft - 331 (+0),
helicopters - 324 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 7049 (+8),
cruise missiles - 1846 (+1),
ships/boats - 23 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 12,149 (+46),
special equipment - 1443 (+7).
08:44 Russian public pages write about a drone attack on the Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery in Yaroslavl. According to them, the UAV allegedly fell near a hydrocracking plant.
08:27 Over the past 24 hours, 74 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In the Avdeevsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled 21 enemy attacks near Ocheretino, Novobakhmutovka, Stepnoy, Avdeevka and five more attacks near Pervomaisky, Nevelsky, Donetsk region. In the Maryinsky direction, 22 attacks were repulsed near Georgievka, Pobeda and Novomikhailovka in the Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansky direction, four enemy attacks were repelled near Sinkovka and east of Peschany, Kharkov region; in Limansky - six attacks in the Ternov and Yampolevka areas of the Donetsk region; on Bakhmutsky - four attacks near Bogdanovka and Ivanovsky, Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - one attack north of Priyutnoye, Zaporozhye region. The expansion of the bridgehead continues in the Kherson direction; over the past 24 hours, the enemy has carried out eight unsuccessful assault operations.
07:50 In the Dnipropetrovsk region, during a night attack, fragments of a drone fell on the territory of an agricultural enterprise in the Sinelnikovsky district, no people were injured, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak.
07:36 In the Nikolaev region, during a night attack by drones as a result of falling debris, an administrative building, an educational institution and the private sector in the Arbuzinsky community were damaged, there were no casualties, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
07:28 At night, air defense destroyed all eight attack UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type, which Russia attacked from the Primorsko-Akhtarsk area. The drones were shot down within the Nikolaev, Dnepropetrovsk, Khmelnytsky and Rivne regions, the Air Force command reported. In addition, the Russian army attacked with one Iskander-M missile from the Voronezh region and three S-300 missiles in the Donetsk region from the temporarily occupied territory of the region.
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[KavkazUzel] The Baku Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the court of first instance, which extended the arrest of the former Minister of State of Nagorno-Karabakh Ruben Vardanyan in the case of terrorism and financing of illegal armed groups.
As the " Caucasian Knot " reported, on January 25, a court in Baku extended the arrest of the former Minister of State of Nagorno-Karabakh Ruben Vardanyan for another four months.
On October 3, 2023, it became known that the former President of Nagorno-Karabakh Arayik Harutyunyan was detained by the State Security Service of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani pro-government media reported the detention of former presidents of the unrecognized republic Bako Sahakyan and Arkady Ghukasyan, as well as former speaker of parliament David Ishkhanyan.
Ruben Vardanyan's defense appealed the extension of his arrest. The Baku Court of Appeal reviewed the case materials. The court refused to satisfy the complaint of Vardanyan’s lawyer, leaving the decision of the court of first instance unchanged, APA news agency reported today.
Earlier, the Binagadi District Court considered petitions from the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan to extend the arrest for four months of former Nagorno-Karabakh presidents Arkady Ghukasyan, Bako Sahakyan, Arayik Harutyunyan, Nagorno-Karabakh Foreign Minister David Babayan, Chairman of the Nagorno-Karabakh Parliament David Ishkhanyan, as well as generals Leva Mnatsakanyan and David Manukyan. The court granted the department's request, Trend.az reported on January 25.
Let us remind you that Ruben Vardanyan was detained by Azerbaijani security forces on September 27, 2023 at the border while trying to leave for Armenia. In Baku, he was charged with financing terrorism, creating illegal armed groups and illegally crossing the Azerbaijani border.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces liberated Tabayevka (Kharkov region). Three attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 30th and 32nd Mechanised brigades were repelled near Sinkovka (Kharkov region). The AFU losses amounted to up to 30 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, three pickup trucks, and one 152mm Msta-B howitzer.
In Krasny Liman direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front lines and supported by artillery inflicted losses on assault detachments of the AFU 63rd Mechanised Brigade near Yampolovka (Donetsk People's Republic) and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic). The AFU losses amounted to up to 280 Ukrainian troops, one tank, and three motor vehicles.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces repelled six attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 22nd Mechanised Brigade near Belogorovka and Pereyezdnoye. The Group's artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 81st Airmobile Brigade and 10th Air Assault Brigade near Kleshcheyevka and Krasnoye (Donetsk People's Republic). The AFU losses amounted to up to 210 Ukrainian troops, two pickup trucks, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one 100mm Rapira anti-tank gun.
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces repelled one attack launched by units of the AFU 127th Territorial Defence Brigade near Priutnoye (Zaporozhye region). The AFU losses amounted to up to 90 Ukrainian troops and two motor vehicles.
In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 33rd, 65th Mechanised brigades, and 112th Territorial Defence Brigade near Rabotino and Yurkovka (Zaporozhye region). The AFU losses amounted to up to 30 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, three pickup trucks, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
In Kherson direction, strikes were delivered at units of the AFU 38th Marines Brigade near Myzikovka (Kherson region). The AFU losses amounted to up to 40 Ukrainian troops and four motor vehicles.
Operational-Tactical aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces wiped out missile artillery and fuel depots, as well as engaged manpower and hardware in 109 areas during the day.
Air defence units shot down one HIMARS MLRS projectile over the past 24 hours. In addition, 34 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted near Nyrkovo, Zolotaryovka, Belogorovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Marfopol, Pologi (Zaporozhye region), Radensk and Aleshki (Kherson region).
In total, 568 airplanes and 265 helicopters, 11,345 unmanned aerial vehicles, 456 air defence missile systems, 14,817 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,211 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 7,892 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 18,007 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 21:15 The number of civilian deaths in Donetsk due to artillery attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces has increased to four people, said city mayor Alexey Kulemzin 19:55 Today, as a result of massive artillery attack from the AFU on the territory of the DPR, three civilians were killed and 16 people were injured. This was announced by the head of the region Denis Pushilin.
19:25 Six utility workers were blown up in Gorlovka DPR by Ukrainian Kolokolchik mines. The mayor of the city, Ivan Prikhodko, announced this.
“Six Gorlovka utility workers were blown up by Ukrainian Bell-type mines on Bakh Street,” the mayor wrote on the Telegram channel.
Prikhodko also reported that as a result of artillery attack by the Ukrainian army in the Gagarin mine village, a civilian was injured.
19:10 Over the past 24 hours, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have intensified artillery attack of the civilian infrastructure of Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region, with mortars and artillery, said the head of the region, Vladimir Saldo.
“Over the past 24 hours, in the Kherson direction, the enemy has intensified artillery attack of civilian infrastructure in Novaya Kakhovka using mortars and artillery. In Alyoshki, civilian vehicles were deliberately attacked by drones. There are civilian casualties. Over some sections of the left bank of the Dnieper, enemy UAVs are constantly hanging in the air, ready to attack,” wrote Saldo in the Telegram channel.
He did not specify the number of victims, but added that in order to suppress the aggressive actions of the Ukrainian troops, military personnel of the Dnepr group of troops inflicted complex fire on the enemy using artillery forces and drones.
19:03 Crew of the 152mm 2S5 Giatsint-S self-propelled gun of the army corps of the Vostok group of forces as part of counter-battery warfare destroyed two M-777 howitzers in the South Donetsk direction of the Northern Military District. Competent camouflage and professional skills of our crews leave no chance for enemy artillery.
18:47 In the Novomikhailovka area, on the south-eastern and southern outskirts, artillery fire stopped the rotation of enemy personnel four times in the area of the dairy farm.
Two concentrations of enemy manpower and military equipment were defeated on the eastern outskirts of Konstantinovka and in Antonovka. The enemy's air defense system was destroyed in Novomikhailovka. In the Novomikhailovka - Konstantinovka - Vladimirovka area, up to 15 enemy support forces were suppressed.
South-east of Ugledar, the rotation of Armed Forces personnel in the forest belt was disrupted.
In Ugledar itself, the air defense system of one of the units was partially destroyed, and three concentrations of manpower and military equipment were damaged southwest of Elizavetovka, northwest of Dobrovolye and south of Vodyanoye.
In the areas of Nikolsky and Ugledar, up to eight strong points were suppressed, a dugout was destroyed, and a trench was destroyed. The enemy lost up to 10 people.
The enemy made an unsuccessful attempt to strengthen positions in the forest belt east of Urozhainy. Artillery fire destroyed two concentrations of manpower and military equipment in Zolotaya Niva and Urozhainy. The TOS strike on a concentration of manpower west of Novodonetsk killed up to 10 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen.
North of Priyutny, the enemy made five attempts to strengthen forward positions in forest belts.
Artillery suppressed six strong points in forest belts west of Staromayorsky. A defeat was inflicted on the accumulation of the enemy's marvelous force and weapons and military equipment in Poltavka.
The total enemy losses for the day amounted to 95 people killed and wounded.
17:47 Khar kov region. The sound of an explosion was reported in the eastern part of the area. The air raid warning did not sound. Our rocket scientists did some preliminary work using ballistics.
16:50 Three people died in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk, said the Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
Three more civilians were injured of moderate severity - women born in 1963 and 1999, a man born in 1999, they are receiving medical assistance. Damage to private residential buildings and civil infrastructure was also recorded.
15:55 According to preliminary data, as a result of the artillery attack of the Kalinin region, there are 3 dead and 1 wounded.
15:47 The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired eight rockets from the MLRS at the Kalininsky district of Donetsk, the mayor of the city reported that there were casualties -video.
15:40 The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired at a residential building in Novodruzhesk LPR, two minor girls, students of grades 5 and 7, were injured. One of the girls is being operated on at a local hospital, the second, after receiving assistance, was sent to the Republican Children's Clinical Hospital, said Health Minister Natalia Pashchenko.
14:51 Explosions occurred in the part of the Kherson region controlled by the Ukrainian authorities. This was reported by the publication “Zerkalo Nedeli”. An air raid alert is currently in effect in Kyiv-controlled areas of the Kherson region.
14:30 An unmanned aerial vehicle crashed into the windshield of a civilian car in Gorlovka in the DPR, said the mayor of the city, Ivan Prikhodko.
“An unmanned aerial vehicle crashed into the windshield of a civilian car and only miraculously did not explode,” the mayor wrote on the Telegram channel.
13:30 The Russian Ministry of Defense officially confirmed the release of Tabaevka in the Kupyansky direction.
13:13 Artemovsk (Bakhmutskoye direction) area of the settlement. Kleshcheevka. Our artillerymen struck enemy positions using the TOS-1A Solntsepek systems. It is reported that three platoon strong points of the mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were hit.
12:57 Statement of Head of the press center of the "South" group:
In the Donetsk direction, the active actions of units of the “Southern” group of troops in cooperation with artillery and heavy flamethrower systems repelled three attacks by assault groups of the 24th mechanized, 80th air assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Shumy, Kirovo and Georgievka. The manpower and equipment of the 22, 28, 42 Mechanized and 17 Tank brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the areas of Krasnoye, Andreevka, Kleshcheevka and Kurdyumovka.
Up to 330 Ukrainian military personnel were killed and wounded, a tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, four pickup trucks, an electronic warfare station, and a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery unit were destroyed.
Air defense and electronic warfare systems shot down Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Vodyanoye, Belogorovka, Mar'inka, Yampolovka, Spornoye, and Sands of the Donetsk People's Republic.
11:52 Russian group of forces “Vostok” stopped attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to strengthen their forward positions in the areas of Ugledar and Staromayorsky, said the head of the group’s press center, Alexander Gordeev.
He clarified that the group’s units repelled an attack by formations of the 128th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Priyutnoye area, the enemy suffered losses and retreated.
10:55 Personnel storming the village Krakhmal'noye (Khar'kov region)
10:36 Situation on the Rabotino-Verbovoye section at 10.30:
Our troops continue to attack enemy strongholds west of Rabotino. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are bringing up infantry reserves and periodically launching counterattacks. Encounter battles are underway.
Near Verbov, the Russian Armed Forces are conducting an offensive, knocking out the enemy from the forest plantations. The enemy is snarling, tanks and infantry fighting vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine periodically appear on the LBS, and Russian UAV operators are actively hunting for them.
Artillery is actively working along the entire section of the front. Despite statements by Western media about a shortage of rounds in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the enemy continues to fire high-explosive fragmentation and cluster munitions.
09:47 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired cannon artillery:
-- n.p. Kardashinka three rounds;
-- n.p. Alyosha five rounds;
-- n.p. Podstepnoye two rounds;
-- n.p. Novaya Kakhovka four rounds;
-- n.p. Dnepryan three rounds;
-- n.p. Golaya Pristan three rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell the civilian infrastructure of the village. Kazachi Lagey, n.p. Golaya Pristan, n.p. Novaya Mayachka, n.p. Sagi, firing a total of 16 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
09:20 Military investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee recorded crimes committed by the UFU against the civilian population of the DPR.
As a result of the artillery attack of the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka using 155mm artillery, women born in 1975 were injured among the civilian population. and born in 1977, as well as in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, a man born in 1979 was injured from ammunition dropped from a UAV. and a woman born in 1964.
In addition, Ukrainian militants shelled the city of Yasinovataya, Petrovsky, Kirovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, as well as the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, using UAVs and 155mm caliber artillery throughout the day.
In total, one residential building was damaged from artillery attack of the DPR by the Ukrainian Federal Unity.
08:44 RF Armed Forces they press Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kremensky forest, despite the “swarms” of enemy kamikaze drones.
A fighter with the call sign Uzbek says that his “Tiger” was recently hunted by five “birds” at once. One of them hit the roof, after which the military man was shell-shocked: “It’s been two months [since] they [the Ukrainian Armed Forces] became more active, but in fact we are not inferior in any way, in some moments we are even superior in terms of kamikaze drones.”
08:24 Assault units of the Vostok group of troops from Primoryecapturedsix strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Zaporozhye section of the South Donetsk direction.
The Ministry of Defense said that in one of the battles for the next opornik, which lasted five days, 20 attack aircraft of the commander’s unit with the call sign “Saval” forced about 200 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers to drop their weapons and flee.
08:01 Summary on the morning of January 29, 2024:
Russian Armed Forces are developing success south of Kupyansk near Tabakeevka, an offensive is underway in the direction of the settlement. Sandy and Berestovoe.In the Krasnolimansky direction, the Russian Armed Forces made several landings, advancing in the area of Yampolovka and Ternov
South of Kremennaya, the Russian Armed Forces, despite many kamikaze UAVs and fierce enemy resistance, are developing an offensive in the area of the mill on the southeastern outskirts of the village.
West of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), the Russian Armed Forces are conducting offensive operations in Bogdanovka, near Ivanovsky (Krasny), Kleshcheevka.
In the area of Avdievka, the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not stop trying to counterattack in the area of the Tsarskaya Okhota fortified area occupied by the Russian Armed Forces; enemy reserves of up to several infantry battalions were thrown into battle. The Russian Armed Forces are conducting an offensive east of the coke plant in the area of ??gardening partnerships.
On the Zaporozhye front, counter battles continue at Rabotino and Verbovoy, and on the Kherson front, the battle at Krynoki continues. From the field, frontline soldiers report numerous enemy drones and heavy artillery fire. Our aviation in both directions uses FAB with UMPC against clusters of Ukrainian Armed Forces behind the front line.
The enemy’s analytical channel writes: “The difficult situation remains near Tabaevka and south of Avdievka. The Russian Armed Forces have recently achieved a number of tactical successes. There is such chaos in the matchmaking segment - because the bands are held by a hodgepodge of different battalions of different brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the interaction between them often leaves much to be desired.”
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[Regnum] In Yerevan, a native of Armenia staged a pogrom near the monument to the children of besieged Leningrad. Video footage of the desecration of the monument appeared on social networks.
Could it be that the peoples of Russia’s Former Soviet Union deeply resent the years of being forced to be Communist subjects of the Russian empire?
The footage shows how the attacker knocked over wreaths and trampled on a ribbon in the colors of the Russian flag. The man filmed his actions and published it. On the recording, a certain Samvel Shirinyan expressed dissatisfaction with the words of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. Earlier, during a briefing, the diplomat suggested providing a link to a document or statement of any international organization, such as the UN, testifying to the ethnic cleansing that took place in Karabakh.
At the same time, Zakharova emphasized that the Russian side has repeatedly pointed out the importance of creating conditions for the return of the Armenian population to Karabakh, recorded the need to properly ensure the rights and security of the Armenian population of Karabakh and is ready to provide all possible assistance to this process.
In turn, the man who desecrated the monument said that “there is no documentation about the siege of Leningrad.”
As Regnum reported, on the evening of January 27, an artillery salute thundered near the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg in honor of the 80th anniversary of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the blockade of Leningrad is only part of the Nazi atrocities and genocide, the assessment of which must be unshakable. The fate of the city is tragic, at the same time, its struggle and courage will forever remain one of the triumphant pages of the country’s history, the head of state said.
According to Putin, the Nazis acted cynically during the war, consciously and according to plan, dooming Leningraders to starvation and extreme hardship. More than 1 million people, mostly elderly people, as well as women and children, died from hunger and disease, the Russian President added.
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Jeepers, that last paragraph! If projection were fusion, Russia (her party-liners, anyway) would rule the galaxy.
Video is in Russian but translatable.
[ColonelCassad] Historian Yegor Yakovlev examines fakes from the former “Honored Teacher of Russia” (I wonder if any of those who moved her there somehow suffered?) Russophobe and collaborator Eidelman on the topic of besieged Leningrad.
Abstract:
- Why was the situation allowed when the residents of besieged Leningrad were starving and how was the “road of life” arranged?
- Was Leningrad really abandoned by the Soviet army?
- How to treat the unpublished diaries of Boris Pasternak’s cousin Olga Freidenberg about the blockade, where she criticizes Stalin?
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