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[Korrespondent] 22:32 According to the legislative initiative of the Ministry of Defense, all citizens of military age will be required to register an electronic account of a conscript subject to military service. Summons will also be sent to the conscript’s electronic account. In addition, all citizens aged 18 to 60 years who are registered (or deregistered) must have a military registration document with them and present it at the request of a TCC representative, police officer or border guard. Read more in the material New draft law on mobilization: basic norms .
21:43 As a result of a cyber attack by GUR specialists, a large-scale failure occurred in the Russian Ministry of Defense server, which was used for special communications, military intelligence reports. As a result of the cyber attack, the exchange of information between units of the Russian Defense Ministry that used a server located in Moscow was stopped. The software on the attacked server was approved by the FSB of the Russian Federation as meeting state information security standards. The corresponding software was installed at various strategic facilities in the Russian public sector, including military ones.
Meanwhile, Russian media write that today there was a large-scale failure in the operation of sites in the .RU domain zone. The Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation announced “a technical problem related to the global DNSSEC infrastructure (this is a set of DNS protocol extensions that guarantees the integrity and reliability of data).”
21:26 The Cabinet of Ministers submitted to the Verkhovna Rada an updated bill on military service and mobilization. The Ministry of Defense claims that comments and observations on the document were taken into account jointly with the General Staff, the government and people's deputies. The agency also published an infographic about the updated version of the draft law:
20:49 Politico writes that Ukraine will receive the first batch of GLSDB missiles from the Pentagon tomorrow. It is expected that the new ammunition, capable of covering a distance of about 150 km, will have significant potential for Ukraine, the publication notes.
20:13 The head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak, at a joint briefing with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, announced the creation of an International Group on Security and Euro-Atlantic Integration. It included world-class politicians - former presidents of Poland Alexander Kwasniewski and Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite, former prime ministers of Great Britain Boris Johnson, Sweden Carl Bildt, Finland Sanna Marin, Poland Marek Belka, Slovakia Mikulas Dzurinda, former US Secretary of State, former ambassador to NATO and US Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker and many other famous politicians and figures.
The main task of the new working group will be to prepare a comprehensive vision of Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic integration, in particular future membership in NATO.
19:35 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he held a meeting with the Ministry of Strategic Industry, Minister Alexander Kamyshin reported on the results of work on the production of drones and ammunition: “We are increasing production. It is very important: we are adding new positions, the development of new types of weapons continues. Domestic production of drones, equipment "And by the way, today the minister reported separately on the production of long-range drones - this is one of the key tasks for the defense industry."
19:31 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with the President of Finland Sauli Niinistjo, they discussed the situation on the battlefield, preparations for the Global Peace Summit in Switzerland.
19:23 In the occupied Oleshki of the Kherson region, on January 10, the Russian military started shooting, as a result of which a local resident died, the prosecutor’s office reported.
19:18 CIA Director William Burns said that refusal to help Ukraine would be the biggest “own goal” in US history. He emphasized that 2024 will be the most difficult year for Ukraine during the entire war, since now the United States is “practically leaving the conflict, risking scoring one of the strongest own goals in its history.”
19:07 The Russians launched a missile attack on the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. The rocket hit the yard of a residential building, no people were injured. In addition, the Russians attacked the Nikopol region with ten kamikaze drones and also shelled it with artillery. Nikopol, Marganetskaya and Pokrovskaya rural communities were under attack, one person was wounded.
18:16 Member of the European Parliament from Latvia Tatyana Zhdanok secretly worked for the FSB for decades. Journalists obtained her email correspondence with curators from St. Petersburg. Read more in the article Loud scandal in the European Parliament .
18:09 Macron called on EU countries to be ready to compensate for the reduction in aid to Ukraine from the United States: “We must organize ourselves in such a way that if the United States makes a sovereign choice to stop this aid or reduce it, it should not have an impact on the ground.”
18:05 Budanov said that the Russian offensive on the front began in November 2023 and “will dry up completely somewhere in early spring.” The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate admitted that Russian troops had advanced near Avdeevka, Donetsk region, but “this is not what they expected.” According to Budanov, the enemy wanted to quickly reach the barrier line along the Black Stallion River in the Kharkov region and reach the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. “As you understand, this is not even close,” he noted and added that “when the enemy’s move ends, the move of the Ukrainian troops will begin.”
Also, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence expressed hope that “this year the Crimean Bridge will be destroyed.” According to him, there will be more blows as Ukrainian industry increases production volumes.
17:44 Former NATO Secretary General, head of Rasmussen Global Anders Fogh Rasmussen is visiting Ukraine. Zelensky said that he had already met with him and thanked him for his help in creating the draft Kyiv Security Treaty, which formed the basis of the Vilnius Declaration.
17:30 EU countries do not agree with Orban’s conditions for lifting the 50 billion euro veto for Ukraine, writes Reuters. A senior European official told reporters that EU leaders do not want to agree to an annual review of support for Kyiv, since this would give Orban the right to veto the decision each time.
17:03 The Russian army once again attacked Berislav, Kherson region, from a drone, one person was killed, OVA reported.
16:58 The Russians again struck the Kharkov region, at the moment there were no casualties, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
16:24 Zelensky will take part in the EU summit on February 1 online, European Pravda reports, citing an EU official.
15:55 Defense forces hit a radar station of the Russian air defense system near the village of Razdolnoye in Crimea, StratCom reported.
15:37 The Russians fired artillery at the village of Tokarevka, Kherson region, one person was wounded, the OVA reported. In addition, Russian aircraft attacked two settlements in the Berislavsky region - residential buildings and the building of the Point of Indestructibility were damaged.
14:58 A mechanism for transferring income from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine has not yet been created, said Christian Wiegand, a representative of the European Commission. According to him, Brussels welcomes the approval by EU countries of the proposal to transfer these revenues to a separate account for subsequent transfer to the EU budget. Now the decision must be approved by the EU Council. “The purpose of this proposal is that the proceeds from the reinvestment of these assets will be transferred to the EU budget and used for Ukraine. The European Commission is working to prepare the next steps. There is no exact timing yet,” Wiegand added.
14:39 Russia has not shown readiness to transfer to Ukraine the bodies of prisoners who were allegedly on board the Russian Il-76 that crashed near Belgorod on January 24, said GUR representative Andrei Yusov. At the same time, according to him, such work is being carried out on the Ukrainian side. “If the worst is confirmed, we will do everything possible to take our defenders with a shield or on a shield,” Yusov added.
He also admitted that the plane could have carried both ammunition and prisoners, who were used as human shields. At the same time, Russia’s reaction and the circumstances of the crash were provocative, because a regime of silence was not declared over Belgorod, and the Russian Federation did not inform in advance that it was going to use air traffic to transport prisoners.
14:07 Russians fired artillery and FPV drones at Avdeevka, Chasov Yar and New York in the Donetsk region - one person was killed, three were wounded, the prosecutor’s office reported. In particular, in the city of Chasov Yar, two people were injured as a result of an FPV drone attack on the private sector. One person died in Avdeevka, another was wounded in the New York town of Toretsk.
13:48 The Russians launched a missile attack on the Kharkov region, according to preliminary information - without casualties. The details are being established, said the head of the OBA Oleg Sinegubov.
13:11 The population of occupied Melitopol has become larger than it was before the full-scale invasion and occupation, said the mayor of the city, Ivan Fedorov. According to him, the Russians are eradicating Ukrainians, but they are bringing in thousands of Russian citizens. Thus, until February 24, 2022, 150 thousand people lived in Melitopol. Within six months after the occupation, more than half of the indigenous residents left the city for territory controlled by Ukraine and abroad. However, in almost two years, the Russians brought about 100 thousand of their fellow citizens to Melitopol.
12:53 At night, the Russians hit a residential building in the village of Veletenskoye, Belozersk community, Kherson region - one person was killed, one was injured, the OVA reported.
12:49 The Chinese cargo airline Air China Cargo made four flights to Minsk in January. According to the Belarusian Gayun monitoring group, the same Boeing 747 transport aircraft delivered military equipment from China to Belarus for four days in a row. At the same time, the plane was parked in a VIP parking lot intended for parking Lukashenko’s plane. This parking lot makes it possible to quickly unload and remove the cargo without unnecessary witnesses.
Experts also remind that the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus have adopted Chinese CS/VN3 Dajiang armored vehicles since 2017 - a Boeing 747 can bring at least four to five such vehicles in one flight. But in addition to armored vehicles, the Belarusian military-industrial complex also uses Chinese components for the production of Polonaise MLRS missiles.
12:27 The head of the Tax Committee of the Verkhovna Rada, Daniil Getmantsev, said that Ukraine is not even considering the option of stopping Western funding: “Currently, we are not even considering the option of refusing this assistance. For us, this is critical, because the timeliness and completeness depend on it non-military expenditures."
11:55 Orban said that he is ready to agree to macrofinancing for Ukraine at the summit on February 1 if the amount is approved unanimously every year.
11:34 EU leaders at the summit on February 1 will emphasize the need to speed up supplies of ammunition and missiles to Ukraine, Reuters reports with reference to the summit’s draft decision. The leaders will also reaffirm their determination to continue to provide Kyiv with “timely, predictable and sustainable military support.”
10:59 In the morning, the Russians dropped explosives from a drone near the humanitarian headquarters building in Berislav, Kherson region, one person was wounded, OVA reported. During a night attack by drones, an enemy UAV hit an agricultural enterprise - a fire broke out, which has already been extinguished, no people were injured. Over the previous 24 hours, one person was killed and another was injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
10:25 Defense forces destroyed a Russian Su-34 fighter in the Lugansk region, said General Staff Speaker Andrei Kovalev.
09:58 The massive night attack by drones did not lead to critical consequences for the balanced operation of the energy system, but there was damage to equipment at one of the Ukrenergo substations in the central region. Currently, industrial consumers are being healed using backup schemes, the company reported.
09:27 At night, the Russians struck Mirnograd in the Donetsk region - one person was killed, one was wounded, said the head of the OBA Vadim Filashkin. The rocket hit the annex to the hotel - at the time of the strike there were about 30 people in the hotel, they were not injured. Three residential buildings were also damaged.
09:13 At night, the Russians attacked the city of Zmiev, Chuguevsky district, Kharkov region, with at least six Shahed drones. A civilian enterprise and private residential buildings were damaged, two people were injured, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. In addition, on the afternoon of January 29, the enemy struck the village of Velikiy Burluk with KABs, damaging a civilian cheese-making enterprise. Another civilian enterprise was damaged as a result of shelling in the village. Khatneye.
09:06 In the Cherkasy region, during a night attack, an enemy drone hit an abandoned structure in the Uman region, no people were injured, said the head of the OVA Igor Taburets.
08:57 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of January 30:
personnel - about 384,140 (+960) people,
tanks - 6300 (+10),
armored combat vehicles - 11,725 (+29),
artillery systems - 9144 (+31),
MLRS - 972 (+0),
air defense systems - 663 (+3),
aircraft - 332 (+1),
helicopters - 324 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 7084 (+35),
cruise missiles - 1846 (+0),
ships/boats - 23 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 12,191 (+42),
special equipment - 1448 (+5).
08:39 In the Kiev region, during a night attack, as a result of falling debris on the territory of one of the enterprises, a fire broke out, an administrative building and a hangar were damaged. The fire was quickly extinguished, no people were injured, said the head of the fire department, Ruslan Kravchenko.
08:30 Over the past 24 hours, 70 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Avdeevsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled 16 enemy attacks in the areas of Novobakhmutovka, Avdeevka and eight more attacks near Pervomaisky and Nevelsky, Donetsk region. In the Maryinsky direction, eight attacks were repulsed near Georgievka, Pobeda and Novomikhailovka in the Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansky direction, seven enemy attacks were repelled near Sinkovka and east of Peschany, Kharkov region; on Limansky - four attacks in the areas of Serebryansky forestry in the Lugansk region and Ternov in the Donetsk region; on Bakhmutskoye - three attacks near Bagdanovka and Ivanovskoye, Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - two attacks in the Zolotaya Niva area of the Donetsk region; on Zaporozhye - two attacks west of Verbovoy and Rabotino, 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.
08:18 In the Krivoy Rog district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, a Russian drone hit civilian infrastructure, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. A fire broke out, which rescuers have already put out; no people were injured.
08:07 In the Nikolaev region, during a night attack, as a result of the falling debris of a downed drone, a truck caught fire, the driver was injured, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
07:59 Air defense at night destroyed 15 of 35 attack UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type, which Russia attacked from three directions: Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kursk, Crimean Cape Chauda. The drones were destroyed within the Nikolaev, Sumy, Cherkasy, Kirovograd, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Kherson and Kyiv regions, the Air Force command reported. The enemy sent some of the UAVs along the front-line territories, trying to hit the infrastructure of the fuel and energy sector, civilian and military facilities on the front line and the border with the Russian Federation.
In addition, Russia fired two S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles at the Donetsk region.
06:44 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that air defense systems allegedly destroyed and intercepted 21 drones over the Crimea (11), Belgorod (5), Bryansk (3), Kaluga (1) and Tula (1) regions.
06:26 All recent attacks on targets on Russian territory were carried out not by foreign weapons, but by the developments of Ukrainian factories and underground workshops, Minister for Strategic Industries Alexander Kamyshin said in a comment to Time magazine. He added that there is no time to test new weapons at the training ground, so they are tested in combat conditions, and the necessary changes are made based on the results.
04:53 US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin discussed with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg the critical need to quickly increase defense production for the needs of Ukraine, the Pentagon reported following the meeting. They also stressed the importance of maintaining NATO unity and continued support for the Alliance.
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[KavkazUzel] Rosfinmonitoring has included Sofya Angel-Baroko, a blogger from Maikop accused of insulting the feelings of believers and justifying terrorism, to the list of extremists and terrorists. Her page on the social network states that the reason for criminal prosecution was “a commentary on Christ’s prediction that the main temple would fall.”
The " Caucasian Knot " wrote that a blogger from Maykop, Sofya Angel-Baroko, is being held under arrest on charges of insulting the feelings of believers and justifying terrorism. She suffers from asthma, but the administration of the pre-trial detention center in Krasnodar refuses to allow her to undergo a medical examination, her relatives said.
A native of Maykop, Sofia Angel-Baroque, is included in the list of extremists and terrorists today, as follows from the information on the Rosfinmonitoring website.
There are 433 videos on Sophia’s YouTube channel “Goddess Tiamat”. They are dedicated to shamanism, the awakening of Cthulhu (a fictional cosmic creature created by the American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Cthulhu is considered an ancient god - note by the Caucasian Knot), the apocalypse, energy practices, and also options for prayers. As of 20.55 Moscow time, 1,470 people were subscribed to the channel.
A total of 1,585 people have subscribed to Sophia’s VKontakte page. The publication dated January 19, the first after a break since August 2023, reports that Sophia’s arrest was extended despite her serious condition; the appeal was considered on January 25 and was unsuccessful. In the comments to the publication, answering questions from users, the author of the post said that the reason for the persecution was “a commentary on Christ’s prediction that the main temple would fall.” The message does not indicate who runs the girl’s social network.
The website of the Supreme Court of Adygea states that on October 25, an appeal was considered to extend the term of detention of the accused under articles on justification of terrorism and insulting the feelings of believers (part 2 of article 205.2 and part 1 of article 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the judicial act was left unchanged. The name of the defendant is hidden on the court website.
Sofia Angel-Baroque is a video blogger, her videos talk about ancient gods and magic. She ran pages on social networks, as well as a YouTube channel. The blogger took part in the shows “Reboot”, “Dom-2”, “Dinner Party”, “Dancing on TNT”, “Let’s Get Married” and “Battle of Psychics”. On August 16, 2023, she was accused of insulting the feelings of believers and justifying terrorism and then arrested, Kavkaz.Realii previously reported*.
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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 supported by aviation and artillery repelled three attacks of assault detachments of the AFU 30th, 32nd, and 44th Mechanised brigades close to Sinkovka (Kharkov region).
The enemy lost up to 140 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, and two motor vehicles.
In Krasny Liman direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line and repelled three attacks of assault groups of the AFU 60th and 63rd Mechanised brigades close to Yampolovka (Donetsk People's Republic) and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).
The enemy losses amounted to up to 290 Ukrainian troops, three tanks, four armoured fighting vehicles, and five motor vehicles.
In the Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces supported by aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems took more advantageous lines and positions.
In addition, strikes were delivered at enemy manpower and military hardware near Krasnoye, Andreyevka, Novomikhailovka, Kurdyumovka, and Georgiyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy lost up to 310 troops killed and wounded, two tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, and 11 motor vehicles.
In addition, during the counter-battery warfare, the Russian troops engaged one Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system and two 152mm Msta-B howitzers.
In South-Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces jointly with aviation and artillery inflicted losses on manpower and military hardware of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade near Ugledar and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy's losses amounted to up to 60 Ukrainian troops, one tank, and two motor vehicles. During counterbattery warfare, the Russian troops neutralised two UK-made FH-70 howitzers and one 122mm D-30 gun.
In Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Group of Forces supported by artillery neutralised manpower and hardware of the AFU 3rd National Guard Brigade of Ukraine near Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
During the day, up to 40 Ukrainian troops, three motor vehicles, one 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer have been neutralised.
In Kherson direction, as a result of the active actions of the Russian Group of Forces and complex fire damage caused to the enemy, the AFU losses amounted to 45 troops, two motor vehicles, and two D-30 howitzers.
Operational-Tactical and Army Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Groups of Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit during the day: a fuel depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a radar station of the German-made IRIS-T anti-aircraft missile system, as well as manpower and military hardware in 112 areas.
Air defence systems shot down 12 projectiles of the HIMARS and Uragan multiple launch rocket systems, as well as a U.S.-made JDAM guided aerial bomb.
In addition, 86 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down, including close to Zolotarevka, Popasnaya, Kremennaya (Lugansk People's Republic), Verkhnekamenskoye, Yampolovka (Donetsk People's Republic), Ocheretovatoye, Shevchenkovo, Mirnoye, Konstantinovka, Lyubimovka (Zaporozhye region) and Korsunka (Kherson region).
In total, 568 airplanes and 265 helicopters, 11,431 unmanned aerial vehicles, 456 air defence missile systems, 14,847 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,211 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 7,902 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 18,042 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 21:50 Front birdbroadcasts: Nikolaevkskaya area. Air defense. 30.01 21:30
Reported to the work of enemy air defense.
The rumble was heard in the southern part of the region near the port.
Arrival information is being updated.
20:00 Front bird broadcasts: Yuzhnodonetsk direction. district settlement Novomikhailovka 30.01 19:30
It is reported that our units of the Vostok group of troops repelled several enemy attacks.
The armored vehicles tried to take advantage of the element of surprise.
As a result, our armored personnel carriers hit enemy vehicles with direct fire using 30mm. guns.
19:20 “Gods of War” of the Southern Group of Forces continue to carry out combat missions in a special operation zone
Crews of 152mm 2A36 Giatsint-B artillery mounts carry out fire missions to destroy defensive structures, suppress control points, and destroy enemy fire weapons, weapons, military equipment and manpower.
Every day, artillery crews conduct counter-battery combat with the enemy and support the work of assault troops. This time, the crew of the Giatsint-B gun hit a strong point with personnel from Ukrainian Armed Forces units.
18:30 Front bird broadcasts: TOS-1A “Solntsepek” Ugledar district 01/30 18:45
The successful work of the crews of the TOS-1A Sontsepek heavy flamethrower systems was reported to the RKhBZ troop unit of the 29th combined arms army of the Vostok group of forces.
As a result of the work of the TOS, the strong point and fortified positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.
17:50 Captured Ukrainian soldier stated, that he does not want to get into the exchange program, because he does not want to return to Ukraine.
According to him, a very large number of Ukrainians are waiting for Russia to come and liberate the country. He believes that Ukraine is now a Western corporation.
17:10 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits Statement by the head of the press center of the Dnepr group
In the Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian group of troops, with the support of artillery, defeated the manpower and equipment of the 3rd Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Rabotino, Zaporozhye region.
The enemy lost up to 40 military personnel, three vehicles, a 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount, and a 122mm D-30 howitzer.
In the Kherson direction, as a result of the active actions of units of the Russian group of forces and the complex fire defeat of the enemy, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to up to 45 military personnel, two vehicles and two 122mm D-30 howitzers.
The village of Glushkovo was shelled from the Ukrainian side. In three households, windows, roofs and facades were damaged, and one car was damaged. We will assist the owners in restoring their property.
15:30 Crews of Ka-52 attack helicopter sinflicted attacks on enemy strongholds and armored vehicles
Krasnolimansk direction
During combat missions, army aviation pilots launched missiles at detected fortified points of Ukrainian Armed Forces units.
As a result of combat use, the enemy's control center and armored vehicles were destroyed. After successfully completing the task, the entire group returned to the home airfield.
14:40 Front bird broadcasts: Avdeevskoe direction 30.01 14:50
Intensification of artillery duels in several areas.
The enemy's counter-battery work is practically not carried out.
The guys just sent out a portion of 82mm. rounds into the enemy's lair.
We are working.
13:00 Front bird broadcasts: Khar'kov direction (n. Kupyansk area) 30.01 12:50
It is reported that our cannon artillery has been actively working since early morning.
In particular, our 152mm 2S5 MSTA-S self-propelled guns worked on fortified enemy positions.
Our 122mm Hyacinths are working now.
In addition, aerial reconnaissance is currently actively identifying new targets for artillery strikes.
12:22 At night our “Geraniums” struck oil depot in Kharkov region
11:40 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits Statement by the head of the press center of the "West" group
Units of the West group of forces continue to carry out combat missions in the Kupyansk direction.
Motorized rifle units of the group of forces, supported by fire from tanks, defeated the defending units of the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and completely captured the village of Tabaevka.
In addition, in the Sin'kovka area, motorized rifle units, in cooperation with artillery, repelled three attacks by assault groups of the 30th and 32nd Mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
During the counterbattery fight, the crew of the high-power 203mm self-propelled mortar 2S7 "Malka" under the command of gun commander Sergeant Alexander Matylev destroyed the towed 152mm howitzer 2A65 "Msta-B".
Enemy losses in the Kupyansk direction amounted to up to a company of manpower, a152mm Msta-B howitzer, four mortars and a UAV control center.
10:40 Front bird broadcasts: Sumy region 30.01 10:30
There is information that tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces is identifying enemy positions for high-precision strikes.
The sound of an explosion was reported.
09:50 Criminal Kyiv regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery six rounds;
-- n.p. Dnepryan four rounds;
-- n.p. Alyosha eight rounds;
-- n.p. Proletarka two rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Korsunka, n.p. Aleshki, n.p. Staraya Zburevka, settlement Golaya Pristan, firing a total of 15 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
09:20 Telegram channel «WarGonzo":
Frontline report for the morning of 01/30/2024
– In the Zaporozhye direction there were oncoming battles west of the village of Rabotino, near Novoprokopovka and Verbovoy. LBS has not changed significantly. The struggle for initiative continues.
– On the Donetsk Front, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of long-range weapons, advanced on the northeastern approaches to Novomikhailovka, occupying important positions. The Ukrainian garrison in the village found itself in a semicircle. Similar actions by Russian troops at Nevel'skoye, Pervomaiskoye and from Opytnoye also brought them tactical success.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces counterattacked at the site of a breakthrough in their defense on the southeastern outskirts of Avdievka. No promotion. After the shelling, Russian troops tried to advance in the Stepnoye area (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Zaporozhye and Ugledar directions) and near Novobakhmutovka, controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (the settlement of the same name to the east behind the Russian Armed Forces).
Ukrainian troops fought back. Their positions in Pobeda, Georgievka, the city of Krasnogorovka, Severny (a settlement west of Avdeevka) and Avdievka are under attack. Russian ones are in Mar'inka, Donetsk and Yasinovataya.
– In the Artemovsky (Bakhmutsky) direction, the Russian Armed Forces, after artillery shelling, attacked at the heights north-west of Kleshcheevka, near Ivanovsky and in the Bogdanovka area. No success.
– In the Lugansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of long-range weapons, advanced to Terny. The loss of this village is fraught for the Ukrainian Armed Forces with a collapse of their logistics on the left bank of the Zherebets River. In turn, Ukrainian troops counterattacked in Tabaevka and regained control of some of the lost positions. The Russian Armed Forces fired at the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belogorovka, Torskoye, Nevsky, Stepnaya Novoselovka and Petropavlovka.
08:50 Telegram channel «Fisherman":
Chronicle of a special military operation: events of January 27 – 29, 2024
– The Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to attack the Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery in Yaroslavl with a drone. The drone was suppressed by electronic warfare equipment, and the plant continues to operate as normal.
– Russian troops, meanwhile, attacked objects in the so-called Poltava region. Ukraine. The target of the ballistic missile strike was the Kremenchug oil refinery. Now the enterprise is still not functioning.
– The Russian Armed Forces continue offensive operations in the Kupyansk-Svatovsk direction. Russian units liberated Tabaevka, and to the south they repelled assault attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Yagodnoye.
– In the Liman direction, the Russian Armed Forces made slight progress towards Yampolovka. Positional combat operations are being conducted in the forests near the Kremennaya side; MLRS and artillery are operating against the fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
– In the Artemovsky (Bakhmut) direction, Russian troops continue to advance in the direction of Chasov Yar. To the west of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), fighting is taking place in the Bogdanovka area, where the Russian Armed Forces are gradually pushing through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
“The intensity of hostilities remains high along the entire line of contact in the Avdievka direction. In the southern part of Avdievka, the Russian Armed Forces advanced in the private sector, but soon the fighting moved into the positional stage.
– Ukrainian formations continue to fire at the civilian infrastructure of the Donetsk People’s Republic. During the latest artillery attack of Donetsk, infrastructure was damaged, three civilians were killed and four more were injured.
08:10 Official summary of DPR in JCCC
19 armed attacks by the UFU were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours
There were reports of the death of three civilians
16 civilians were injured of varying severity.
Damaged:
10 residential buildings,
Seven civil infrastructure facilities.
One artillery attack from the AFU was recorded:
12 in the Donetsk direction,
Six on Gorlovsky,
One on Yasinovaty.
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[REGNUM] The evening of January 29 thundered with the sensation that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny was removed from his post, as stated by several prominent Ukrainian media personalities. Vague denials soon followed, and as of the morning of January 30, Zaluzhny was still in his place - as was the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Moscow Region, Kirill Budanov, who was announced as a replacement.
However, the explosion was strong enough to sow acute concern in the media environment and politics in Ukraine, which is evident even from the silence of the leading media. Everyone is tensely waiting for the continuation, and the people’s deputy from Poroshenko’s “Eurosolidarity” Alexey Goncharenko and the editor-in-chief of the website “Censor. no” Yuri Butusov, who traditionally supported Zaluzhny, argue that in fact the decree on the general’s resignation has already been signed, but has not yet been made public.
Regnum's own sources in Kiev confirm that there is a situation of acute crisis. Now bargaining continues at the highest level, since for Zelensky any decision is bad. There really was a meeting, and Zaluzhny was asked to write his resignation report on his own. What he refuses: “Fire on your own responsibility.” At the same time, over the past months, he has systematically destroyed all connections between the Office of the President and the army; any decisions of the political authorities are pointedly ignored by him. There is no way to leave everything as it is for the president. To expel a commander popular among the troops, who already has a solid political coalition behind him, by decree would immediately result in an internal war.
Well, Budanov, don’t be a fool, refuses to simply take the place of commander in chief, his condition is to maintain control over the Main Intelligence Directorate and impose complex changes in personnel on the new position. His relationship with Zelensky is built normally and there is mutual understanding. As commander-in-chief, the young killer-saboteur arouses skepticism among experts. It is not his level and he has not been noted for any special successes in his post - despite several high-profile actions. Blowing something up is not leading a huge war machine. But explosions are exactly what they expect from him on Bankova.
So, in the very near future, this huge abscess will burst, introducing some adjustments to Ukrainian affairs.
IT WON'T WORK OUT QUIETLY
As IA Regnum has already explained more than once, the conflict between the OP and the General Staff, based on political competition, inevitably had to end with Zaluzhny’s removal from office. Only in order to neutralize him as a competitor already in the public field (and in possible elections), the general needs to be discredited. It is with this, as our interlocutors suggest, that the current stuff is connected, the main source of which is deputies from Petro Poroshenko’s party or people close to the ex-president. They form the backbone of the so-called “Zaluzhny party,” which has already manifested itself in the Verkhovna Rada.
The purpose of the stuffing is to prevent the “persuasions” from going quietly, since the general is presented with an alternative: either he becomes, for example, the head of the Security Council (or, as some politicians and journalists claim, an ambassador “to one of the countries”), or he will be drowned.
The noise about corruption in the army has not stopped recently. The SBU came with searches to current officials of the Ministry of Defense, the same thing is happening to the managers of the Lviv Arsenal. They are suspected of embezzling one and a half billion in the purchase of shells. Among the defendants is Alexander Liev, who was the head of the Department of Military-Technical Policy under the Ministry of Defense. By the way, a former true believer of the “regionals” and organizer of the Anti-Maidan. At the same time, new inspections of the operation of the TCC were launched, where “multiple violations were identified.”
The tireless people's deputy Maryana Bezuglaya never tires of trashing the commander-in-chief, and in recent messages she even called him a chronic drunkard. He was smeared for his proposal to call up an additional 500 thousand soldiers (Zaluzhny himself later denied this). Discussions on the mobilization bill, for which Bankova tried to shift responsibility to Zaluzhny, came as a shock to society.
An appropriate background is being created, in support of which more and more blatant facts will be included.
But the most dangerous thing for the general is the criminal cases initiated regarding the abandonment of the entire south of Ukraine without a fight in the spring of 2022 and the latest story about the downed Il-76 with prisoners of war who were sent for exchange. This is a pure “set-up” for the military, since it was involved in organizing the GUR, which publicly washed its hands. “It was just a story of pinning things on him. The same thing happened with the plane shot down in Lugansk in 2014, when paratroopers were killed and several generals were imprisoned. So it is here: he is still a witness, but his status can be reclassified - as in the case of how the RF Armed Forces easily captured the south, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine mediocrely lost,” says political scientist Mikhail Pavliv to IA Regnum.
At the same time, there is a silver lining: Zelensky’s push automatically increases Zaluzhny’s political weight, and he understands this. He is not unarmed, he has unquestioned authority in the military environment, behind him is a mountain of oligarchs (primarily Poroshenko) and a consolidated “opposition.” If the general emerges not as a commander-in-chief constrained by obligations, but as a public speaker, he will be able to say what he could not say before, Pavliv is sure. This will be a terrible blow for the president and his entourage. So right now he needs to choose between a bad and a very bad scenario: Bankova no longer has any good moves left.
And replacing a rebellious commander in chief with an obedient one is unlikely to change anything.
HU FROM MR. BUDANOV
The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, is the youngest head of Ukrainian military intelligence in history; he turned 38 years old in January. But his biography includes a rich track record of sabotage and terrorist acts. Budanov took his current post in the summer of 2020, a year later receiving the rank of brigadier general - the first rank of senior officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
He remains at the post of head of the Main Intelligence Directorate even now, differing from his colleagues in that he regularly gives interviews and makes loud statements. For example, that “we have killed and will kill Russians anywhere in the world.” But his value for Zelensky lies not only in his ability to organize terrorist attacks and engage in sabotage. Kirill Alekseevich is in close contact with the British, whose hands are carrying out strikes on Russian territory (in particular, there is an opinion that it was they who helped shoot down the Il-76 near Belgorod). He is considered a favorite of the chief of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, Lieutenant General Scott Berrier. Even his appointment took place exactly a week after Berrier took over as head of the DIA. He also has an excellent relationship with the secretary and confidant of the president, Maria Levchenko.
Thus, in the event of Zaluzhny’s replacement as commander-in-chief, Budanov will give the President’s Office what it needs: instead of a positional dead end, regular high-profile actions that can be boasted to the public; loyalty and normal interaction; continuation of the war in the “British” style - with all intransigence and mercilessness. First of all, to our own citizens.
However, the young general himself understands the risks associated with such a transition, and, according to IA Regnum sources, puts forward counter conditions. The first of them is maintaining control over the power steering. The second is a package of personnel changes that will make the new position strong.
“We should not forget that Budanov was in a triple confrontation for a long time (with Ermak, with Zaluzhny and with his immediate superior Umerov). In this situation, any planning is met with sabotage. It was the need to resist intrigue that explained the publicity that was unusual for heads of special services,” writes the best Ukrainian political scientist Kost Bondarenko.
That is, it is necessary to remove the people of the previous leader from the General Staff, replace the Minister of Defense, who managed to remain in office for only six months, with Budanov’s man, and, in fact, unite military intelligence, the power of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the administrative resources of the Moscow Region in one hand. Such resources will make Budanov a very influential person in the country. So influential that he might even think that he no longer needs the top bosses.
But in any case, all this is a reason to stop underestimating a leader who “does not have experience in commanding a unit larger than a platoon.” His arrival as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (if it does take place) will change the strategy of the Ukrainian troops, where the army will turn into a barrier holding the defense, and the emphasis will be on sabotage actions behind enemy lines, attacks by small groups on certain targets, and an increase in the use of air and sea forces. drones. Zelensky and “foreign partners” are more than happy with all this.
Only in this case will there be a constant presence of “friendly fire” from Zaluzhny and his close generals, who are now in command and in this capacity are accepted everywhere in Western countries. It is no coincidence that the embassies reacted to the news of his resignation with excitement. Opponents of the current team, vying for power, get a powerful trump card and can rock the boat so that everyone in the OP will quickly feel sick.
It will no longer be quiet, and who will prevail in this battle should be shown by the elections, in which Valery Zaluzhny, who has not yet indicated his presidential ambitions, is already collecting as many votes as Zelensky. And in a hypothetical election to the Verkhovna Rada, his conditional party leaves far behind all the political forces that could support Zelensky.
Another thing is that within the framework of the struggle for power, one thing remains stable: the Ukrainian people are still hostage to a system that will destroy them in any political situation.
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Mosfilm has a Youtube channel with a large number of Soviet era films, completely translated into English. Highly recommended.
[Regnum] Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the staff and veterans of the Mosfilm film concern on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the film studio. A congratulatory telegram was published on the Kremlin website.
The President noted that Mosfilm is one of the oldest film studios in Russia.
“Mosfilm is rightfully proud of its rich history, the names and creative achievements of outstanding directors and actors, cameramen and artists, who, with their talent and selfless, inspired work, set the highest bar for professional excellence, created films that became true masterpieces of domestic and world cinematography,” - said in the text of the congratulations.
The Russian leader noted that the film studio employees carefully preserve the traditions of their predecessors, and also implement “bold innovative ideas and plans and worthily serve Russian culture.”
The Mosfilm studio was founded on January 30, 1924, when the first film shot on the site, “On Wings High,” premiered. In total, more than 2,500 films were produced by film studios. Many films of the film concern have received high recognition at international film festivals. Thus, among the Mosfilm awards are the Venetian “Lion of St. Mark”, the “Golden Shell” of San Sebastian, the “Golden Palm” of the Cannes Festival, the “Oscars” of the American Film Academy, the Berlin “Bear” and many others.
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[Regnum] Statements that Sweden, Finland and the Baltic countries could allegedly become “next” after the completion of the special operation in Ukraine are absurd. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on January 30 at a meeting with heads of diplomatic missions in a round table format on the situation around Ukraine. "Trust me"
“Today, the United States has united 54 countries into a camp that pumps Ukraine with weapons, which supplies this country with various military specialists and experts, and helps target long-range weapons. And all this is being done, among other things, so that Russia does not win. They say directly: “If Russia wins and defends its interests in this fight, then the Baltic states, Sweden, Finland will be next.” US President Joe Biden said this. The absurdity of such statements is clear to everyone. Anyone who understands the slightest bit of history and understands the goals that we have openly, without hiding, announced regarding the special military operation in Ukraine,” Lavrov said.
According to the head of the diplomatic department, Russia is eliminating the historical injustice in which Western countries are trying not just to rewrite the history of the peoples of Russia, but to turn the modern territories where Russians and other peoples of Russia have lived for centuries into a springboard that NATO, led by the United States, would use to pose threats to the security of the Russian Federation.
As Regnum reported, in early January, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said that the EU has three to five years to prepare for the fact that Russia will pose a “serious threat” to NATO’s eastern flank.
The discussion was about how soon NATO troops could be ready to confront the Russian Armed Forces. The forecast was based on a scenario in which a ceasefire agreement was signed in the conflict in Ukraine.
In addition, on January 25, the head of the Norwegian Ministry of Defense, Eirik Kristoffersen, called for preparations for war with Russia in the next three years. Kristoffersen said that Moscow is allegedly increasing its stockpiles of weapons much faster than NATO thought.
Before this, the head of the German Ministry of Defense, Boris Pistorius, made a similar statement. He called for full awareness of the danger of a direct military conflict with Russia, and therefore to arm and strengthen the Armed Forces of Germany. He emphasized that in this regard, the country will prepare a fully combat-ready German brigade by 2027, which will have to be present in the Baltic states.
The head of the NATO military committee, Rob Bauer, also called on the West to prepare for an armed conflict with Russia. According to him, in connection with the allegedly increased threat, a system is needed that will allow as many people as possible to be trained in military affairs, regardless of whether there will be hostilities or not.
In turn, in December, Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized that the country has no reason to fight with NATO countries.
In addition, the Russian leader called the allegations about a possible Russian attack on NATO complete nonsense. He also called such statements by American leader Joe Biden a figure of speech.
At the same time, Lavrov said on December 18 that Moscow does not intend to attack NATO countries. The diplomat clarified that it is Western countries that are making Russia an enemy.
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Text taken from the Telegram page of Red Kazakh
[ColonelCassad] Our anti-Soviet public writes sweet articles about the life of Kazakhs before Soviet rule. They write that there were no rich and poor. Almost steppe communism, where everything is common. A classless society with caring bays. And then the communists came and created poverty and genocide.
But in fact, each clan fought for water sources and pastures. Whoever first captured a lake or well controls all the pastures in the circle. Steppe is an endless survival game.
From the mid-18th century until the beginning of the 20th century, MOST people on the steppe were poor. Low-power and poor business associations accounted for 60%, which were completely dependent on wealthy owners. Almost all the livestock was accumulated by 8-12% of the population, the feudal class, where each such owner had up to 10 thousand horses. The nomads joined groups, where each one took turns grazing a common herd, into which the cattle of each participant were poured. But most of them had little livestock. And virtually everyone grazed the livestock of the largest livestock owner.
And every six, 12 and 36 years there is Jud, when 60% of the livestock die. And the impoverished nomads, who had lost their livestock, went to work as farm laborers for the same bai.
When we are told about millions of heads of cattle before the arrival of the Bolsheviks, you must understand that most of these were Bai cattle, which were herded by numerous poor relatives. It’s like GDP growth has no effect on the standard of living of ordinary citizens. How bad life was for ordinary Kazakhs is well described in the novel “Blood and Sweat.”
That is why in 1916 not only tsarist officials were slaughtered, but also bais. That's why the people for the most part sent the Bai's offspring - the Alashorda residents - to hell. And when collectivization began, these bais stole their numerous livestock, dooming the poor Kazakhs to starvation.
This reminds me of our modern Kazakhstan, where 50% of all wealth has gradually accumulated in the hands of a small handful of Kazakh oligarchs and where 50% of the population lives in poverty.
That’s why they feed stories into our ears about caring farmers and happy farmhands.
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[ColonelCassad] One day Georgy heard a valuable opinion: it turns out that Auschwitz was not liberated by the Red Army. This time, the wise head of the EC Ursula von der Leyen opened her mouth, declaring on the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp that certain “allied troops” gave him freedom. Here, even in phlegmatic Norway, they climbed the wall, and university teacher Glen Disen said that “the EU is rewriting history.” It would be more logical (and even more obvious) to assume that in the West the officials are entirely illiterate idiots, but somehow recently it has become the norm to list Americans and even the British as the liberators of Auschwitz. If only it weren't the damned politically incorrect Red Army.
In 2020, the US Embassy in Denmark tweeted about the liberation of Auschwitz by the American army. The diplomats were fucked, they deleted the tweet. Earlier, the same information was published by the serious German magazine Der Spiegel. I repeat - German. Not yellowish, a thoughtful publication with cool analysts. Of course, they rushed at Der Spiegel like lions at Christians, they removed the article from the site and apologized. After this, the publication in the British Evening Standard is no longer surprising, where in an article about a girl who survived the Holocaust, they write that she was freed by the American military. What previously seemed like a mistake or typo is now practically the norm. And serious media, and politicians, and the tabloid press in the West are propagating the same idea: the ovens in Auschwitz stopped working thanks to the United States.
Here the loyalists, of course, will say - well, whores in this West, but everything is fine with us. The fuck was floating there. In our glorious state, both journalists from leading publications and directors from the intelligentsia write in good faith - the Americans entered Auschwitz, and in some places even the British. For example, the powerful publication Lenta.ru in 2022 says this: “American soldiers liberated Lily Ebert from Auschwitz in 1945.”
The poor journalist of this publication did not even doubt such information. And the famous director Yulia Melamed in her column on Gazeta.ru pointed out that “even the completely devastated camp inmates of Auschwitz, the smart Englishmen figured out how to bring them back into life. After liberation, they were brought clothes from the famous Harrods by the wagonload.” I won’t say what nonsense this is. But this is the level of the press and the intelligentsia we have now. It’s a shame to sit and criticize the West.
Guys, these are not mistakes, these are stupid substitutions of concepts. Tattoo it on your forehead - JANUARY 27, 1945 THE RED ARMY ENTERED AUSCHWITZ. Write it down on your wallpaper. Hang the printout in your kitchen. There are only two options here. Either this is planned propaganda (this has become repeated too often), or the newspapers and the Western Foreign Ministry employ not journalists, but creatures who are unable to access Google for two seconds, who cannot read, and who do not have the most primitive historical knowledge.
Well, it’s okay for us to rest on our laurels - we also have a generation that has grown up that does not know the basic things that they should have absorbed with their mother’s milk. And it is not a CIA sabotage, as the loyalists will now howl. This is philistine stupidity. They know about discounts in the nearest supermarket, but not about Auschwitz.
By the way, Georgy once argued with a smart guy who believed that Dachau was liberated by the Soviet army. He didn’t want to Google anything, but he accused George of anti-patriotism and Western worship.
In general, there have always been many fools in this world.
But lately there are somehow no longer any of them.
(c) Zotov
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#1
Auschwitz was not liberated by the Red Army
Well, it wasn't - it was renamed Soviet army by that time.
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