[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 'Iron General' Valery Zaluzhny has been removed as the head of Ukraine's armed forces, the nation's defence minister declared, after weeks of rumours that President Volodymyr Zelensky was planning a major shakeup of top military brass.
Rustem Umerov confirmed the decision was taken on today to change the military leadership as Zelensky aims to keep a steady stream of military aid flowing in from Western partners.
'The war does not remain the same. War changes and demands change. New approaches and new strategies are needed... I am sincerely grateful to Valery Fedorovych (Zaluzhny) for all his achievements and victories,' Umerov said in a statement.
Zaluzhny, who has led Kyiv's forces throughout Russia's invasion and is known as the 'Iron General', is said to have fallen out with Zelensky over differing opinions on how to boost numbers in the army, which is struggling to fill its ranks.
Zelensky also reportedly took umbrage with an interview given by Zaluzhny to The Economist in which he admitted the fight had ground to a stalemate - something the Ukrainian President fears could turn EU chiefs off the idea of sending more aid.
The now-former commander-in-chief acknowledged Zelensky's decision in a brief statement.
'The tasks of 2022 are different from those of 2024. Therefore, everyone must change and adapt to the new realities as well. In order to win together,' he said.
Zaluzhny was replaced by the commander of Ukraine's ground forces Oleksandr Syrsky, who is said to have a close relationship with Zelensky.
But the move will not be welcomed by many Ukrainian servicemen, who highly rate their 'Iron General'.
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Syrskyi IS russian. He barely speaks Ukrainian.
Syrsky is hated by the Ukrainian troops, particularly those on the frontlines.
He’s being called a ‘butcher’ and is known in other circles as a meat-grinder who refused to give an inch in Bakhmut while calling for frontal meat-assaults, leading to the extermination of an entire field army group.
The parents and brother of the new commander-in-chief of the US-backed Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky, still live in Russia, and his father is a retired colonel of the Russian Armed Forces, and now a pensioner
Why would Zelensky appoint a commander that the entire armed forces allegedly hates?
This fact, is a ‘design feature’ not a bug..
Zaluzhny was extremely popular with the armed forces of Ukraine many where hoping for him to lead an insurrection against the Kiev government .
Zelensky needs a commander-in-chief he can control, someone not universally loved by the troops; someone who cannot use those troops at a time of opportunity to ‘march on Kiev’ and oust Zelensky
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"Only a Russian Agent would say Ukraine isn't winning."
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[LB] Chernihiv, Poltava, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Luhansk, Odesa and Sumy regions were also attacked by the Russians.
In the Khmelnytsky region yesterday morning, during an air alert, air defense forces neutralized two enemy air targets. This is stated in the summary from OVA as of this morning.
There were two shellings (eight explosions) in Chernihivska during the day. The enemy shelled Novgorod-Siversky districts, used mortars and an FPV drone. No information was received about losses among the local population or damage to civil infrastructure. The data is being verified.
There was an explosion in Poltava yesterday evening in the Myrhorod district. There are no victims or injured.
In Vinnytsia this night, debris from downed UAVs caused a fire at one of the infrastructure facilities. There are no casualties.
In Luhansk, Nevsky and surrounding villages are under fire from Russian artillery and mortars. The enemy is also hitting Bilogorivka with weapons of various calibers. During the day, the enemy fired 141 shots (525 shells).
In Kharkivska, about 20 settlements were hit by enemy artillery and mortar attacks, in particular: Veterinarne, Nesterne, Komisarove, Dvorichna, Synkivka, Petropavlivka, Ivanivka, Berestovka. The occupiers launched an airstrike on Tabaivka, Vilkhuvatka, Hryhorivka, and Vovchansk. In the Kupian direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled three attacks near Synkivka and Ivanovka, where the enemy tried to break through the defense of our troops. Yesterday evening, as a result of shelling in Kupyansk, a private house and a gas pipe were damaged. A 67-year-old man received minor injuries. Also in the evening, enemy shelling of Hlushkivka took place. A private farm was damaged. A civilian suffered an explosive injury, the data is being established. Private households were damaged by shelling of Kurylivka. Yesterday, outside Hryhorivka, a warehouse building, an apartment building were destroyed, and one house was damaged. There are no casualties.
In Zaporizhzhia last day, the occupiers made 176 strikes on 20 settlements of the region. The enemy attacked Orikhov and Novodarivka from aviation, and also attacked with 67 drones Novoandriivka, Gulyaipole, Charivne, Chervone, Mala Tokmachka, Levadne, Stepove, Lobkovo, and Kamianske. 107 artillery strikes hit the territory of Zaliznychny, Novodanilivka, Biloghirya, Levadno.
In Sumy at night, the Russians carried out five shellings of border territories and settlements. 18 explosions were recorded. Velykopisarivsk, Shalyginsk, Esmansk, Druzhbivsk communities came under fire. In advance - without consequences. Yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 17 shelling of border territories and settlements. 154 explosions were recorded. The Bilopolska, Krasnopilska, Velikopysarivska, and Seredino-Budska communities came under fire.
In Dnipropetrovsk, the Myriv community of Nikopol district was attacked by an aggressor at night. The occupiers fired heavy artillery several times at one of the villages there. Fortunately, the projectiles did not hit people. All purposes. It was noisy in the Kryvorizka district as well - air defense was working. Yesterday afternoon, the Nikopol district suffered from enemy attacks. Five kamikaze drones hit the Marganets community. Pokrovska village was under artillery fire. Two people who were injured will be treated at home. In total, three private houses, two outbuildings, a car, a gas pipeline and a power line were damaged in the area.
In Donetskia, the last days were under fire: Avdiivka, Krasnohorivka, Chasiv Yar, Ocheretyne, Novopokrovske, Selidove. 13 residential buildings (ten of them multi-apartment buildings), a school, three kindergartens, a parking lot, seven civilian cars, and an official car were damaged. In Donetsk region in a day: one dead and eight wounded.
In Mykolaivska, air defense forces and means destroyed three unmanned aerial vehicles of the Shahed 131/136 type at night. That night, the enemy also attacked Mykolaiv with the same anti-aircraft guns. As a result of the hits, there was a fire on the territory of an industrial enterprise and a private house. The fire was promptly extinguished by the units of the State Emergency Service. Apartment buildings and an object of sports and health infrastructure were also damaged. There are no casualties. Yesterday morning, the enemy fired artillery at the water area of the Ochakiv community. Yesterday, the settlement of the Kutsurub community was hit by an enemy unmanned aerial vehicle of the "Lancet" type, and the enemy directed an FPV drone along the coastline of the Kutsurub community. During the day, enemy artillery shelling was recorded in populated areas of the Kutsurub community, a residential building was damaged. There are no casualties.
Civil infrastructure has been damaged in Odesa as a result of a nighttime drone attack on Odesa. Fortunately, there were no casualties. The impact of an enemy drone damaged an unfinished high-rise building - the glazing was broken. There is also damage to the educational institution. Anti-aircraft units worked effectively against most enemy targets.
During the day, the enemy fired 60 rounds (233 shells) at Khersonska, including 11 rounds (33 shells) at Kherson. The rioters targeted the areas of 22 settlements in the region. A 62-year-old man was injured in the attack yesterday morning in Tokarivka. He was diagnosed with an explosive injury. A man was injured by Russian shelling. He was wounded near the village of Molodizhne. The 56-year-old victim suffered an explosive injury, injuries to his back, abdomen and hand. A 47-year-old woman was injured as a result of enemy shelling in Zelenivka. She was taken to the hospital for medical treatment.
92 combat clashes took place last day. In total, the enemy carried out 51 missile and 80 air strikes, carried out 89 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 20:26 Zelensky confirmed the exchange of prisoners of war: another 100 defenders returned to Ukraine, most of whom are defenders of Mariupol.
20:17 The US Senate supported consideration of a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan - without spending on protecting the border with Mexico. This is not a final vote, but makes it possible to expedite consideration of the document, which provides 60 billion for Ukraine. After the Senate, the bill will go to a vote in the House of Representatives.
19:29 The Russian Ministry of Defense announced an exchange of prisoners, as a result of which 100 Ukrainian soldiers returned home in exchange for 100 Russian ones. The UAE acted as an intermediary in the exchange.
19:18 Zelensky said in an evening video message that at today’s meeting with Zaluzhny he discussed the situation at the front: “Avdiivka - extraordinary actions of our soldiers and extraordinary difficulties in the defense of the city. Zaporozhye direction - very tough. Southern directions. Challenges for the Kharkov region. But ours opportunities - opportunities for Ukraine this year. The third year of a full-scale war... We must say honestly: the feeling of stagnation in the southern directions and the difficulties in the battles in the Donetsk region influenced the public mood. Ukrainians began to talk less often about victory. But the Ukrainian spirit has not lost faith into victory. Ukraine retains its historical chance. It is our duty to realize it."
The President assured that today’s decision to update the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “is not about names, and certainly not about politics - it is about the system of our army, about management in the Armed Forces and about attracting the experience of combat commanders of this war. Every soldier, every sergeant and Every officer who sees the front understands what decisions are needed. Significantly greater technological advancement of the army's actions. Reboot of the generals. Headquarters at all levels must know and feel the front in the same way as soldiers at "zero". Combat commanders of this war, commanders from "zero" must realize their special experience at the level of the entire army - in leadership." According to him, “a different approach is needed, in particular to rotations, front management, mobilization and recruiting.”
Zelensky also named the main changes that he expects in the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the near future:
A realistic, detailed action plan of the Ukrainian Armed Forces for 2024 should appear on the table, taking into account the real situation on the battlefield now and the prospects.
Each combat brigade on the first line must receive effective Western weapons - there must be a fair redistribution of such weapons in favor of the first line of the front.
Logistics problems need to be resolved: Avdiivka should not wait for the generals to figure out where the drones are stuck in their warehouses.
Every general must know the front.
Excessive and unjustified staff numbers must be corrected.
It is necessary to build an effective rotation system in the army. The experience of individual combat brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and units of the State Border Service, where such a system exists, can be taken as a basis. Rotations are a must.
There needs to be an obvious improvement in the quality of training of soldiers - only trained soldiers on the first line.
A new type of force is being created within the structure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the Forces of Unmanned Systems. The first commander must be appointed.
Commander-in-Chief Syrsky will present the command to reboot the Ukrainian Armed Forces one of these days, the president added.
18:42 Zelensky appointed Alexander Syrsky as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The president announced this in an evening video message: “Starting today, a new management team is taking over the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. I want the vision of the war to be uniform among our soldiers in Rabotino or Avdievka, and at the General Staff and at Headquarters.”
The President said that he had dozens of conversations with commanders at various levels, in particular, today he spoke with Brigadier Generals Andrei Gnatov, Mikhail Drapaty, Igor Skibyuk and Colonels Pavel Palisa and Vadim Sukharevsky. “All of them are being considered for leadership positions in the army and will serve under the leadership of the most experienced Ukrainian commander. He has successful experience in defense - he conducted the Kiev defense operation. He also has successful experience in offensive - the Kharkov liberation operation. I appointed Colonel General Syrsky "Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Today I spoke with generals Moysyuk and Zabrodsky. Their experience is in the service of the state. 2024 can be successful for Ukraine only if there are effective changes in the basis of our defense, which is the Armed Forces of Ukraine," Zelensky said.
18:31 Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said that “today a decision was made on the need to change the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” He also thanked Zaluzhny “for all his achievements and victories.” “War does not remain the same. War changes and requires changes. Combat operations in 2022, 2023 and 2024 are three different realities. 2024 will bring new changes for which we must be prepared. We need new approaches, new strategies,” the minister wrote.
18:15 Zelensky said that he met with Zaluzhny and “thanked him for two years of protecting Ukraine.” According to the president, they discussed what kind of updating the Armed Forces of Ukraine need and who could be in the updated leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “The time for such an update is now. I suggested that Valery Fedorovich continue to be on the team,” Zelensky wrote.
Simultaneously with Zelensky’s post, Zaluzhny’s post was published, in which he states that “the tasks of 2022 are different from the tasks of 2024, so everyone must change and adapt to new realities.” “We just met with the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. An important and serious conversation. A decision was made on the need to change approaches and strategy. I am grateful to everyone who is nearby. The team of the General Staff, the Ministry of Defense, the President of Ukraine,” Zaluzhny wrote.
At the same time, neither Zelensky nor Zaluzhny directly stated that the commander-in-chief was leaving his post. But they both published the same photo:
17:58 Russian fuel industry enterprises are increasingly suffering from drone strikes. Moreover, drones fly further and further into the interior of the aggressor country. The Russian authorities blame Ukraine for the raids. Kyiv does not officially confirm involvement in the attacks on Russian enterprises, but does not dispute it either. For more details, see the material Range of Drones.
17:25 The Russian Central Election Commission stated that “early voting” for the presidential elections in the Russian Federation in the occupied territory of the Zaporozhye region will begin on February 25, in the Kherson region - on February 27. The first to participate in the “voting” will be residents of settlements that are located in “remote and hard-to-reach areas close to the line of combat contact.” Early “voting” assumes that members of the election commission will come to voters’ homes with ballots and ballot boxes. Putin's elections will take place in Russia on March 15-17.
16:47 Aid to Ukraine from the European Union in the amount of 50 billion euros will not cover the country’s needs until 2027, said the head of the budget committee of the European Parliament, Johan Van Overtveldt. According to him, Ukraine's non-military needs amount to 3 billion euros per month - thus, the country needs 36 billion euros annually.
As for the adopted aid package, on average 12.5 billion euros per year will be available to Ukraine, Van Overtveldt recalled. “According to the agreement between the EU and the United States, each of them will take on half of Ukrainian needs, that is, 18 billion euros for the EU and the United States. Thus, the Ukraine Facility will annually receive at least 5.5 billion euros less from EU obligations,” - he explained and added that for the entire period until 2027 the shortfall will amount to 22 billion euros.
16:05 Recently, a scandal erupted online over a video of a dispute between a special-purpose regiment of the National Police in the Dnipropetrovsk region and its leadership. The police allegedly refused to transfer to the Lyut assault brigade because, according to them, they were not prepared, and “trenches are not checkpoints.” It took the Ministry of Internal Affairs several days to resolve the situation. Read more in the article Riot in the Dnieper: how the police were “punished.”
15:53 On the eve of his visit to Washington, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on the US and the EU to intensify efforts to provide assistance to Ukraine: “We must find a way to do more together. What has been promised so far in Europe, and what was promised by the decisions of the American Congress is not enough yet."
15:08 The EU proposed to impose sanctions on 55 companies and more than 60 individuals as part of a new sanctions package against Russia, Bloomberg writes. The new restrictions will affect individuals and legal entities involved in the production of weapons and the supply of key technologies and electronics.
14:46 Governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov said that in the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka a kamikaze drone attacked a bus in which civilians were supposedly traveling, one person was injured. In addition, according to Gladkov, the village of Rzhevka, Shebekinsky urban district, came under fire, five people were injured.
14:27 Ukraine and Denmark have begun detailed negotiations on an agreement on security guarantees, the Presidential Office reported.
14:24 At night, the Russians fired at Selidovo, Donetsk region, with eight missiles - according to preliminary information, S-300 and North Korean KN-23, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. One of the rockets hit an apartment building, killing one person and injuring seven, including a six-year-old child.
14:19 Vice-Presidents of the European Commission for Finance, Mairead McGuinness, and for Trade, Valdis Dombrovskis, appealed to the governments of EU countries to immediately stop the illegal flow of goods to Russia, Politico writes with reference to their letter. They noted that they would soon publish “detailed information” about companies evading sanctions.
Sanctioned goods from the EU enter Russia through countries that are not members of the European Union. They are also supplied by subsidiaries of European companies operating outside the bloc. These are mainly items and technologies that are not weapons, but can be used for military purposes and end up on the battlefield. The publication writes that the European Commission is studying the possibility of creating an EU body to monitor compliance with sanctions, essentially taking over this function from governments.
The day before, the media reported that the Italian arms manufacturer Beretta, despite sanctions, still exports small arms to Russia through its subsidiary and the companies of the Russian arms baron Mikhail Khubutia. Of the total number of arms supplies to the Russian Federation that violate sanctions, almost half are from products of Beretta-owned companies. In total, after the start of a full-scale war, more than 835 thousand rounds of ammunition and 5.9 thousand small arms produced by the holding reached Russia.
14:03 In Russia, there was a massive failure of the drone control program - the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported a corresponding operation by cyber specialists. The Russians install hacked software to re-flash DJI drones for the needs of military operations. It allows Russian drone operators to configure control panels and create new ones, shoot video and transmit the image to the command post, and control the drone from a computer. In addition, through web servers, the specified Russian drone re-flashing project ensures the functioning of the “friend or foe” system.
According to preliminary data, as a result of a cyber attack by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, the servers stopped working, so all software is recognized as “foreign” and denies access to Russians. Without access to servers, controlling drones from remote controls is probably impossible. Now the enemy is trying to solve the problem, in particular by switching to manual control mode.
13:46 Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk criticized American Republican senators who are blocking bills to help Ukraine: “Dear American Republican senators. Ronald Reagan, who helped millions of us win our freedom and independence, today is apparently turning over in his grave. How shame on you".
13:12 Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets said that he sent official letters to the UN and ICRC regarding the illegal trial of Ukrainian defenders in the “DPR”. He recalled that the day before in the DPR, 33 Ukrainian soldiers received sentences ranging from 27 to 29 years for shelling residential buildings of the “republic.”
“I urge the world community to increase pressure on the aggressor in order to stop the practice of convicting Ukrainian defenders in fake courts who are driving the enemy away from their land... Once again, I note that the announced sentences are passed by quasi-entities not recognized by the international community, and are illegal. Such a “court” “This is a violation of the right to a fair trial and another Russian war crime,” the ombudsman emphasized.
12:59 Ukraine should not expect significant progress on its application for NATO membership at the upcoming Alliance summit in Washington in July, British Ambassador to NATO David Quarry said. At the same time, he said, Britain is “absolutely convinced that Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO.”
12:07 In the Tavria direction, the Defense Forces destroyed the Russian Ka-52 attack helicopter, said the commander of the Tavria operational-strategic group of troops, Alexander Tarnavsky. He clarified that the enemy Alligator with its crew was hit by a MANPADS in the Avdeevsky direction. The commander also said that the enemy is concentrating the main offensive efforts on the Novopavlovsk, Avdeevsky and Orekhovsky directions.
11:48 In Mariupol, from March 2022 to February 2023, more than 10 thousand people were buried, at least 8,000 died from combat or war-related causes, according to a report by the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch. However, the report emphasizes that the real death toll could be significantly higher, in part because some graves contained multiple bodies, while the remains of others were likely left under rubble.
11:25 In Odessa, during a night attack, two patrol police officers who were heading to the site of the previous attack were injured as a result of a second explosion, the Southern Defense Forces reported.
10:54 The US Senate failed a procedural vote on a bill that provided for assistance to Israel and Ukraine and strengthening control measures on the southern border of the United States. During the voting, the Democrats were unable to get the required 60 votes - there were only 49 in favor and 50 against. About what to expect next - in the material the US Senate did not support assistance to Ukraine.
10:46 Biden said that Ukraine is at a “critical point in the war,” while the United States is “stepping back.” According to him, Putin is “stepping on his heels - and what are we doing? Are we retreating back?” Biden emphasized that stockpiles of ammunition and weapons in Ukraine are dwindling, and fighting is expected to intensify in the spring. “The United States is seen as - we are the main nation. If the United States withdraws from events, what will happen? What will happen in the Middle East? The Taiwan Strait? What will happen in Asia? What will happen to Ukraine?” the president noted.
10:19 Commander of the Ground Forces Alexander Syrsky visited military units and units that hold defense in the Bakhmut direction. According to him, the enemy is trying to break through the Ukrainian defenses in the Chasovy Yar area, attacking in small groups under the cover of drones and artillery. The situation is tense and requires constant monitoring of the situation and prompt decision-making directly on the ground, the commander noted.
09:47 At night, the Russians fired at Selidovo, Pokrovsky district, Donetsk region - one person was killed, seven were wounded, said the head of the OVA Vadim Filkshkin. 53 high-rise buildings, ten private houses, seven administrative buildings, and 24 cars were damaged. Another person was wounded as a result of Russian shelling of Avdeevka.
09:28 Scholz said that Ukraine could soon face a serious shortage of weapons and ammunition: “Despite our support, Ukraine may soon face a serious shortage of weapons and ammunition. Some financial commitments have already been exhausted, while others need to be continued. Long-term costs "The costs associated with failing to stop Putin's aggression will dwarf any investment we make now."
08:49 On the evening of February 7, the Russians shelled Kupyansk - a private house and a gas pipe were damaged, one person was injured, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. Another person was wounded as a result of shelling. Glushkovka, Kupyansky district, a private farm there was damaged.
08:35 In the Vinnytsia region, debris from downed UAVs caused a fire at one of the infrastructure facilities. The fire was localized and there were no casualties, said Sergei Borzov, the head of the OVA.
08:27 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of February 8:
personnel - about 392,380 (+910) people,
tanks - 6383 (+11),
armored combat vehicles - 11,899 (+20),
artillery systems - 9411 (+24),
MLRS - 980 (+0),
air defense systems - 666 (+1),
aircraft - 332 (+0),
helicopters - 325 (+1),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 7191 (+14),
cruise missiles - 1880 (+31),
ships/boats - 24 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 12,513 (+27),
special equipment - 1505 (+8).
08:03 At night, the Russians attacked Nikolaev with Shahed drones - as a result of the hit, fires occurred on the territory of an industrial enterprise and a private house. The fires were quickly extinguished. Apartment buildings and a sports infrastructure facility were also damaged, but no people were injured, said Vitaly Kim, head of the OBA.
07:44 Over the past 24 hours, 92 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In the Avdeevsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled 27 attacks in the areas of Novobakhmutovka, Avdeevka and another 13 attacks near Nevelskoye and Pervomaiskoye, Donetsk region. In the Maryinsky direction, 22 attacks were repulsed near Krasnohorivka, Georgievka, Pobeda and Novomikhailovka, Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, Ukrainian forces repelled three enemy attacks near Sinkovka and Ivanovka, Kharkov region; in Limansky - nine attacks in the areas of Belogorivka, Luhansk region and Ternov, Torsky, Donetsk region; on Bakhmutskoye - eight attacks near Ivanovskoye and Kleshcheevka, Donetsk region; on Zaporozhye - two attacks west of Verbovoy and Rabotino, Zaporozhye region. The enemy did not conduct offensive actions in the Shakhtarsky direction. In the Kherson direction, the Defense Forces hold their positions and repelled four assaults by Russian troops.
07:18 Air defense at night destroyed 11 of 17 attack UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type, which Russia attacked from the Crimean Cape Chauda, the Air Force command reported. The drones were destroyed within the Nikolaev, Odessa, Vinnitsa and Dnepropetrovsk regions.
03:07 Russia attacked Odessa with drones - there was damage to civilian infrastructure, said Oleg Kiper, head of the OVA. An unfinished high-rise building and an educational institution building were also damaged by the drone strike.
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[Korrespondent] During the day, 52 military clashes occurred. In the Avdeevsky direction, our defenders repelled 17 attacks in the area of the Avdievka settlement.
The situation in the east and south of Ukraine remains difficult. During the day, 52 military clashes occurred. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on February 8.
During the day, Defense Forces aircraft carried out strikes on 7 areas where Russian personnel, weapons and military equipment were concentrated. Units of the missile forces struck 2 enemy ammunition depots and 2 artillery weapons.
In total, the enemy launched 13 missile and 54 air strikes, and carried out 37 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas.
In the Volyn and Polesie directions, the operational situation is without significant changes. There were no signs of the formation of offensive groups. Certain units of the Armed Forces of Belarus perform tasks in the areas bordering Ukraine.
In the Seversky and Slobozhansky directions, the Russian Federation maintains a military presence in the border areas, conducts sabotage and reconnaissance activities, shells populated areas from the territory of the Russian Federation, and increases the density of mine-explosive barriers along the state border of Ukraine.
The enemy launched an air strike in the area of the village of Staritsa, Kharkov region. More than 20 settlements were subjected to enemy artillery and mortar shelling, among them Karpovichi, Chernihiv region; Staraya Guta, Bachevsk, Volfin, Kondratovka, Miropolye, Grabovskoe, Popovka, Sumy region; Udy, Strelka, Volchansk, Budarki, Chugunovka, Poplar, Kharkov region.
In the Kupyansk direction, our defenders repelled 4 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka and Ivanovka, Kharkov region, where the enemy tried to break through the defenses of our troops.
More than 15 settlements came under artillery and mortar fire, including Dveletnaya, Sinkovka, Petropavlovka, Ivanovka, and Berestovo in the Kharkov region. In the Liman direction, our soldiers repelled 3 Russian attacks in the area of the village of Terny, Donetsk region, where the enemy unsuccessfully tried to break through the defenses of our troops. The enemy launched an air strike in the area of the village of Belogorovka, Lugansk region.
About 10 settlements were damaged by artillery and mortar shelling, including Nevskoye, Belogorovka, Serebryanskoye forestry in the Luhansk region and Terny, Torskoye, Serebryanka, Verkhnekamenskoye, Razdolevka in the Donetsk region.
In the Bakhmut direction, the Defense Forces repelled 3 enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Ivanovskoye and Klishchievka, Donetsk region, where the enemy tried to improve the tactical situation.
About 10 settlements came under artillery and mortar fire, including Vasyukivka, Bogdanovka, Chasov Yar, Ivanovskoye, Klishchievka, New York, Donetsk region.
In the Avdeevsky direction, our defenders repelled 17 attacks in the area of the village of Avdeevka and another 5 attacks in the Pervomaiskoye and Nevelskoye areas of the Donetsk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried to break through the defenses of our troops. The enemy also carried out an air strike in the area of the village of Alexandropol, Donetsk region.
About 15 settlements were subjected to enemy artillery and mortar shelling, including Keramik, Ocheretino, Novobakhmutovka, Lastochkino, Avdeevka, Karlovka in the Donetsk region.
In the Maryinsky direction, the Defense Forces continue to hold the enemy in the Georgievka, Pobeda and Novomikhailovka areas of the Donetsk region, where the occupiers tried 11 times to improve the tactical situation.
The enemy carried out air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Kurakhovo and Novomikhailovka, Donetsk region. The settlements of the Donetsk region such as Krasnogorovka, Kurakhovo, Pobeda, Novomikhailovka, Ekaterinivka, Elizavetovka came under artillery and mortar fire from the occupiers.
In the Shakhtarsky direction the enemy did not conduct offensive (assault) operations. Conducted air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Vodyanoye, Staromayorskoye, Rovnopol, Donetsk region.
About 10 settlements were subjected to artillery and mortar shelling, including Vodyanoye, Ugledar, Prechistovka, Blagodatnoye, Staromayorskoye, and Rovnopol in the Donetsk region.
In the Zaporozhye direction, defense forces repelled an attack west of Verbovoye, Zaporozhye region, where the enemy unsuccessfully tried to break through the defenses of our troops. The enemy carried out air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Novodarovka, Orekhov, Zaporozhye region.m
More than 20 settlements were subjected to artillery and mortar shelling, including Levadnoye, Gulyaypole, Volshebnoye, Novodanilovka, Stepnoye, Kamenskoye in the Zaporozhye region.
The city of Kherson and the settlements of Berislav, Ingulets of the Kherson region and Ochakov of the Nikolaev region were in the area of responsibility of the Odessa OSUV in the Kherson direction under artillery and mortar fire.
The enemy carried out air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Kachkarovka and Krasny Mayak, Kherson region.
The enemy does not abandon his intention to dislodge our units from the bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnieper.
During the day, an unsuccessful attempt was made to storm the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed a Russian Ka-52 helicopter in the Avdeevsky direction.
Let us remind you that Colonel General Alexander Syrsky has been appointed as the new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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[KavkazUzel] The court ordered the police to pay 400 thousand rubles in compensation to Derbent resident Temirkhan Amakhanov, who had to have his spleen removed after being beaten by security forces. Amakhanov asked for 5 million rubles as compensation for moral damage; he intends to appeal the verdict.
As the Caucasian Knot reported, a court in Derbent found security officials Gasan Adalov and Magomed Yunusov guilty of causing grievous harm to the health of local resident Temirkhan Amakhanov and sentenced them to four years in prison. Temirkhan Amakhanov’s lawyers are satisfied with the court’s decision, which sentenced the security forces who beat the Derbent resident to imprisonment, and do not plan to appeal it. Temirkhan Amakhanov himself said in June 2023 that he still experiences health problems and undergoes rehabilitation courses every six months. On September 14, 2023, the European Court of Human Rights ordered the Russian authorities to pay 26 thousand euros to Derbent resident Temirkhan Amakhanov, recognizing him as a victim of torture by security forces. The decision was made against the backdrop of Russia’s refusal to implement the decisions of the Strasbourg court.
In April 2016, two police officers burst into the house of Derbent resident Temirkhan Amakhanov. The Derbent resident said that the security forces attacked him, and when he began to defend himself, one of them fired three shots from a pistol. A year later, security forces took him to the department, where they beat him so much that Amakhanov had to have his spleen removed. For several years, Amakhanov tried to initiate a criminal case against these employees, and only in 2019, after repeated complaints about the investigator’s inaction, the police were charged with abuse of power. On April 1, 2022, the case against two security officials came to court.
Today, the Derbent City Court of Dagestan partially satisfied the claim of Temirkhan Amakhanov, in which he asked to recover five million rubles from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The court awarded him compensation of 400 thousand rubles. Amakhanov intends to appeal the verdict, the legal assistance project “Travmunkt” announced today in its Telegram channel.
As follows from the case card on the court’s website, Amakhanov’s claim was submitted to the court in November 2023, two court hearings took place, after which the consideration of the case was started from the beginning due to the entry of a “third party” into the process, after which two more meetings were held. the last one was scheduled for today. Amakhanov's interests were represented in court by lawyer Arsen Shabanov.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kupyansk direction, the Zapad Group of Forces' units repelled five attacks launched by assault groups of AFU 30th, 44th Mechanised, 25th Airborne, and 13th National Guard brigades near Sin'kovka (Khar'kov region) and Terni (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 30 troops, four pick-up trucks, and one U.S.-made M777 howitzer.
In Krasny Liman direction, the Tsentr Group of Forces' units improved the situation along the front line and supported by artillery repelled two attacks launched by assault groups of AFU 60th Mechanised, 12th Special Operations brigades close to Yampolovka (Donetsk People's Republic) and Serebryansky forest.
The enemy has lost up to 230 troops, three infantry fighting vehicles, and five motor vehicles.
In Donetsk direction, the Yug Group of Forces' units captured more favourable line and positions, as well as inflicted fire at manpower and hardware of AFU 22nd, 92nd Mechanised brigades close to Kleshcheyevka and Andreyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 310 servicemen, one tank, and four motor vehicles.
In the course of the counterbattery fire, one U.S.-made M777 artillery system, one Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm D-20 and one 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one 100mm MT-12 anti-tank gun.
In South Donetsk direction, the Vostok Group of Forces' units and aviation hit manpower and hardware of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade and the 128th Territorial Defence Brigade close to Ugledar and Makarovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy has lost more than 155 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, one 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya and one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, and one 152mm D-20 howitzer.
In Kherson direction, units of the AFU 35th Naval Infantry Brigade and the 121st Territorial Defence Brigade suffered losses near Tokarevka and Zolotaya Balka (Kherson region).
The enemy losses were up to 25 troops and three motor vehicles.
In the course of the counterbattery warfare, one U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS and one Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system were eliminated.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 114 areas during the day.
Fighter aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces has shot down one Su-25 aircraft of Ukrainian Air Force near Novotroitskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Air defence systems intercepted 12 Czech-made Vampire MLRS projectiles over the past 24 hours.
Moreover, 73 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down close to Yagodnoye (Kharkov region), Kremennaya (Lugansk People's Republic), Novomikhailovka, Nikolayevka (Donetsk People's Republic), and Lyubimovka (Zaporozhye region).
In total, 570 airplanes and 265 helicopters, 12,040 unmanned aerial vehicles, 462 air defence missile systems, 14,938 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,218 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 7,995 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 18,369 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 02/08/2024 to 00:00 02/09/2024.
40 facts of armed attacks by the UFU were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
Information was received about the injury of 4 civilians.
DAMAGED:
Eight residential buildings
14 artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction,
24 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction,
One artillery attack in the Yasinovat direction,
One artillery attack in the Volnovakha direction.
A total of 134 units of various ammunition were produced.
21:55 Front bird broadcasts: Nikolaevkskaya area. Explosion. 08.02 21:00
A fairly powerful explosion is reported at an industrial facility in the Nikolaev region.
What exactly caused the blow is currently being clarified.
21:40 From every decision of the commander depends the lives of his subordinates
Especially when it comes to assault groups, where the cost of a mistake increases significantly. Therefore, in order to get into the ranks of attack aircraft and, especially, to lead a group, you must have enormous experience.
“I started my combat career with the infantry. There came an understanding of what flights are, how to hide from “birds” and the like. About a year later, when recruitment began for assault groups, I got there first for training and then into the group itself,” recalls the commander of the attack aircraft with the call sign “Larek.” “I can say that this is a difficult, sometimes dangerous job for men.”
20:35 Front bird broadcasts: Kirovograd (Kropyvnytskyi) Explosion 08.02 20:00
A powerful explosion was reportedly heard.
The explosion occurred in the southern region of the Kirovograd region.
In all likelihood, our rocket launchers launched ballistics.
The use of the Kh-59 missile is also allowed.
19:35 Mortar men of the Central Military Districtripped offrotation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Tor ledge
During combat duty, the crew of the 2B9M "Cornflower" transportable automatic mortar destroyed a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, discovered by scouts in the territory controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Serebryansky forestry.
In several bursts, the mortar crew defeated the manpower of the units of Ukrainian nationalists who were rotating personnel at the strong point.
18:30 Around 17.30 Moscow time suppressed an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack on the territory of the Russian Federation using eight rounds of the 220mm BM-27 Uragan multiple launch rocket system and four rounds of the Vilkha multiple launch rocket system.
All missiles were destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region by air defense systems on duty.
17:30 Representatives of the military-construction complex of the Russian Ministry of Defense told on the progress of work on the construction of the fifth branch of the Nakhimov Naval School in Mariupol.
16:30 Telegram channel “Colonelcassad": Russian troops continue to methodically expand the breakthrough area in Avdeevka, taking advantage of the results of night bombing of Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in the city. The enemy is trying to counterattack with the available forces and is trying to prevent our assault groups from reaching the key logistics line of the Avdeevka garrison, the loss of which will accelerate the fall of Avdeevka.
There are also active battles in the south-eastern regions of the city from the “Royal Hunt”.
15:45 Kostroma paratroopers destroyed opornik of the Ukrainian Armed Forces north-west of Artemovsk
The self-propelled gun crews, having marched to firing positions, inflicted fire on the Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower dug in at strong points. More than two enemy infantry squads were destroyed by targeted fire from self-propelled guns.
“We carry out combat missions and support the advancing infantry. We also conduct harassing fire on specified targets during enemy rotations. In addition, we are working on identified mortar sections,” said the commander of a self-propelled artillery battery with the call sign “Veter.”
Reconnaissance of targets, adjustment of fire and control of hitting targets was carried out by crews of unmanned aerial vehicles of the Kostroma paratroopers.
15:00 Front bird broadcasts: DPR. district settlement Novotroitskoe. Su-25 shot down. 08.02
It is reported that in the area of the settlement. Novotroitskoye, a Su-25 attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was hit.
It is reported that our Buk-M3 worked successfully.
13:30 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits Statement by a senior officer at the West group press center
Units of the West group of forces continue to carry out operational missions in the Kupyansk direction.
Motorized rifle units, in cooperation with artillery and army aviation, repelled four counterattacks by assault groups of the 32nd Mechanized, 25th Airborne brigades and the 13th Brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard in the areas of the Sin'kovka railway station and the village of Terny.
During the counterbattery fight, the crew of the 152mm Msta-S self-propelled howitzer under the command of Sergeant Mikhail Kiriyenko destroyed a US-made 155mm M777 howitzer in the area of the Volchiy tract.
Enemy losses in the Kupyansk direction amounted to up to 275 military personnel, two 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled guns and a 122mm D-30 howitzer.
12:50 Front bird broadcasts: Avdeevskoe direction. Breakthrough of the defense. 08.02 12:30
A powerful air strike by our air forces on enemy positions is reported.
Right now there is active fighting in the area of ??the railway bridge.
Guys from the field report a fairly large number of lightly armored vehicles knocked out and destroyed. Mainly armored cars and pickups.
We will provide additional information later in the evening.
11:35 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits Statement by the head of the press center of the "South" group
Units of the “Southern” group of forces successfully repelled 10 attacks by formations of the 112th Territorial Defense Brigade and the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Krasnoye, Leninskoye, Shumy and Pobeda.
With the support of air strikes and artillery fire, they occupied more advantageous lines and positions, and defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of the 22nd and 28th Mechanized brigades, the 114th Territorial Defense brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Bogdanovka, Kleshcheevka and Kurdyumovka.
The enemy in the Donetsk direction lost up to 290 military personnel killed and wounded.
Loitering ammunition, artillery and strike-type unmanned aerial vehicles hit two armored combat vehicles, 13 vehicles, and an ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
During the counter-battery fight, an American-made 155mm M109 “Paladin” self-propelled artillery mount, a 152mm D-20 gun, and two 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed.
Air defense systems shot down a MiG-29 of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Alekseevka area of the Donetsk People's Republic, and 21 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the area of the Vasilyevka settlement of the Donetsk People's Republic.
10:55 Front bird broadcasts: Nikolaevkskaya area. Air defense. 08.02 10:40
Local public pages report on the work of enemy air defense.
The rumble was heard in the southern part of the region in the port area.
Arrival information is being updated.
Our UAV has undergone preliminary testing.
10:00 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. Novaya Zburevka two rounds;
-- n.p. Peschanivka five rounds;
-- n.p. Alyosha five rounds;
-- n.p. Novaya Mayachka two rounds;
-- n.p. Dnepryan four rounds;
-- n.p. Kazachi Lagerya three rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Proletarka, n.p. Korsunka, n.p. Aleshki, n.p. Golaya Pristan, firing a total of 16 rounds from cannon artillery
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
09:30 Telegram channel «WarGonzo":
Frontline report for the morning 02/08/2024
– In the Kherson-Crimean direction, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of long-range weapons, carried out assault operations in the central and western part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces bridgehead on the left bank in Krynki. Partially successful.
– In the Zaporozhye direction – continuation of the boxing match. Encounter battles west of the village of Rabotino, near Novoprokopovka and Verbovoy.
– In the Ugledarsky sector, the Russian Armed Forces are active from Priyutnoye and west of Staromayorsky.
– On the Donetsk front, Russian troops broke through to the southern outskirts of Novomikhailovka. They also attack from the northeast. And the Ukrainian Armed Forces have serious problems there. The Russian Armed Forces also advanced near Pobeda, where a powerful Ukrainian fortified area is located. Attacks at Georgievka. No success here.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison in Avdeevka is “burning” on the northeastern outskirts. The Russian Armed Forces have entered the city and are trying to cut the main logistics line in Lastochkino. Russian troops also advanced in the Stepnoye area (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Zaporozhye and Ugledar directions). They also attacked towards Ocheretin.
– In the Lugansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces advanced east of Belogorovka. At Yampolevka and Ternov the Ukrainian Armed Forces counterattacked and managed to regain a number of positions. At Krakhmalny and Tabaevka there are oncoming battles. The Russian Armed Forces managed to advance north-west of Sin'kovka.
08:50 Telegram channel «Fisherman":
Chronicle of a special military operation: events of February 06 – 07, 2024
Russian troops again attacked enemy targets in different parts of the so-called. Ukraine. In Khar'kov, the target was the Malyshev plant, where damaged armored vehicles are repaired.
A series of explosions also occurred in Pavlograd and Novomoskovsk, which had already been the target of attacks in January. Several hits were recorded on industrial and other city structures.
Russian kamikaze drones attacked a military facility in Uman. The target of the raid was a personnel training center.
In response, Ukrainian formations launched missile attacks from MLRS on the central regions of Belgorod. Most of the targets were intercepted, but several missiles hit a residential area, injuring two people.
In the Donetsk direction, Russian units during the assault were able to gain a foothold in the northeastern outskirts of Avdievka. Having taken control of the Ivushka gardening partnership, the infantry reached the outskirts of Independence Street.
The further goal of the Russian Armed Forces is to capture the railway bridge in the city center. At the moment there are battles on the adjacent Kotsyubinsky Lane, where the enemy was able to hold part of their positions.
Strong battles continue for Novomikhailovka in the Ugledar direction, which the enemy turned into a fortified area. Russian units, after artillery bombardment with the support of equipment, secured a foothold on the eastern outskirts of the village on Mira Street.
08:10 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC
A total of 81 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC:
Five employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were injured;
Damaged:
Three residential buildings,
One vehicle,
Two civil infrastructure facilities.
A total of 36 artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction,
Four artillery attacks in the Yasinovat direction,
A total of 38 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction,
Three artillery attacks in the Volnovakha direction.
A total of 270 units of various ammunition were produced.
Volodymyr got his scalp.
[Regnum] The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, dismissed Valery Zaluzhny from the post of commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and appointed Alexander Syrsky in his place. Zelensky announced this during his evening address to citizens.
Earlier on February 8, the head of the regime and Zaluzhny held a meeting at which, as they both later put it on social networks, they discussed “updating the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” At the same time, Zelensky said that he invited Zaluzhny to “stay on the team.”
Information about the possible resignation of the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine appeared on January 29. According to people's deputy Alexei Goncharenko (included in the list of terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation), Valery Zaluzhny had already been announced about his resignation, but the decree itself was not yet ready.
Later, Zelensky, in an interview with the Italian TV channel Rai1, stated that he considers it necessary to carry out personnel renewal of the military leadership of Ukraine and the entire administrative apparatus of the country. The head of the Kyiv regime emphasized that Ukraine needs to “move in a single direction” and not allow decadent sentiments to prevail.
Experts noted that Zelensky has long wanted to fire the commander-in-chief and blame him for the failure of the counteroffensive, in which, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost tens of thousands of military personnel and hundreds of pieces of equipment.
As successors to the post of Zaluzhny, experts and insiders named the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov (included in the list of persons involved in extremism and terrorism) and the commander of the ground forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Alexander Syrsky.
Alexander Syrsky began commanding the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in August 2019. He was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine for his actions in Kyiv after the start of a special military operation. He received his military education at the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School.
In September 2022, he commanded the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkov region, and already on January 11, 2024, Syrsky recognized the situation in the Artyomovsk, Kupyansk and Krasnolimansk directions as difficult for the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As Mash writes, for the army’s unsuccessful attacks on the positions of the Russian Armed Forces, which ended in heavy losses for the Ukrainians, he was nicknamed “General 200.”
The United States of America will continue to provide Ukraine with full support, despite the resignation of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said at a briefing for journalists on February 8.
“(The head of the US Department of Defense. - Ed.) Lloyd Austin has not yet spoken with this person,” said Ryder, answering a journalist’s question about whether the head of the Pentagon had time to negotiate with the new commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky.
A representative of the US Department of Defense emphasized that the appointment of a new commander-in-chief will not have any impact and will not affect the support of Ukraine from the United States of America.
As Regnum reported, the State Department of the United States of America stated that the resignation of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny is a sovereign decision of Kiev. US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel during a briefing refused to comment on the situation itself.
The resignation of Valery Zaluzhny became known on the evening of February 8. The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, speaking to citizens, announced the appointment of the commander of the ground forces, Alexander Syrsky, to this position. According to Zelensky, the reason for Zaluzhny’s dismissal lies in the failures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the failed summer counter-offensive and the resulting feeling of stagnation.
The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, against the backdrop of a shortage of personnel and mobilization in Ukraine, demanded from the new Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Alexander Syrsky, a new approach to the issues of mobilization and rotation of personnel, according to a statement published on the official website of the Ukrainian politician.
“Now the Ukrainian defense forces are almost a million people who were called up to protect our state. As of today, most of them have not felt the front, since a minority is fighting on the front line. This means a different approach is needed, particularly with rotations. A different approach to front management. A different approach to mobilization and recruiting,” Zelensky said.
According to the head of the Kyiv regime, in the near future the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will present a detailed and realistic combat plan for 2024. Zelensky also emphasized that the decision to change the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is not political, it is “about the management of the army.”
As Regnum reported, on February 8, Zelensky, during an address to the nation, said that he had decided to dismiss the former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, appointing in his place the commander of the ground forces of the Ukrainian army, Alexander Syrsky. According to Zelensky, the reason for Zaluzhny’s dismissal lies in the failures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the disastrous summer counteroffensive and the resulting feeling of stagnation.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] From a message from the Volkischer Beobachter.
Today the Fuhrer met with OKH commander Colonel General Franz Halder and thanked him for two years of successful work on the Eastern Front.
Colonel General Halder had one of the most difficult tasks - to lead the forces of victorious Germany in its fight against Bolshevism.
The Wehrmacht under his leadership demonstrated that, together with a united Europe, it was capable of fighting for a New Order on the continent and repelling the threat of Judeo-Bolshevism.
However, the war is changing and in 1942 it is no longer the same as in 1941, these are already different realities. Therefore, new strategies will be required. Therefore, it was decided that it was necessary to change the leadership of the OKH.
The Fuhrer warmly thanked Franz Halder and hopes that he will still serve for the benefit of the Reich.
Field Marshal Keitel announced that Colonel General Kurt Zeitzler had been appointed as the new head of the OKH.
PS. Zaluzhny was fired. Syrsky was appointed in his place.
When they write about the main failures of Syrsky, they forget that in addition to the defense of Artemovsk (and the old proser near Debaltsevo together with Muzhenko), with which the figures from the table above are associated, there was also a counteroffensive near Artemovsk, which began on May 10, 2023, shortly after the loss of the city and was aimed at bypassing Artemovsk from the south, cutting our front and cutting off communications leading to Artemovsk.
His failure remained somewhat in the shadow of the main defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction, but Syrsky was directly responsible for this failure, who was able to crawl, at the cost of huge losses, to the Kleshcheevka-Kurdyumovka line and ran out of steam there.
The enemy personnel know this, so the hysteria in Ukrainian social networks about “General 200” is not surprising. A fresh wave of corpse dumping is expected, just in time for the tightening of total mobilization. The growth of cemeteries and the inevitable waste from a number of settlements in the coming months will then be blamed on it. The moniker “General 200” refers to the Russian cargo class for KIAs, 200s.
Text taken from the Telegram page of iron_wind. Alexey Isaev is a popular Russian historian.
[ColonelCassad] I have repeatedly mentioned the Pekingham effect in my books and speeches, when an English naval officer on a Japanese squadron in the Battle of Tsushima argued that Russian ships fired more often and more effectively. We know how Tsushima ended. The effect is more from the field of psychology.
The big problem with remote wars, not eye to eye with a broadsword, is the uncertainty of the effect on the enemy. Is that where we're going? Is it hurting our enemy?
It was on these February days 80 years ago in 1944 that the Wehrmacht's record for defensive ammunition consumption was broken - 2,910 tons per day by the German 3rd Panzer Army near Vitebsk. Heavy positional battles in the style of the First World War. The offensive was the record of von Manstein's 11th Army at Sevastopol with 3,939 tons on the first day of the second assault in June 1942. Yes, including heavy artillery. However, the German 3rd Panzer Army had artillery up to 280 mm caliber.
Of course, such consumption required an uninterrupted supply of ammunition. They were delivered by train. the Orsha-Vitebsk highway, to which the Soviet 33rd Army of V.N. Gordov West had already approached quite close. front. The road was hidden from observation by a forest.
The former chief of staff of the German 3rd Panzer Army, Heidkämper, wrote shortly after the war:
“For several days, the supply of troops was difficult because from 3.2, as a result of artillery shelling, the railway line in the Vitebsk-Orsha section was damaged, as a result of which, for a long time, traffic on the road could not take place.”
The Germans also had to restore the railway under artillery fire. They managed to avoid a critical supply situation due to vehicles moving along the roads to the west of the railway line. As Heidkämper frankly writes, “to carry out regular supplies of troops in both areas of the enemy’s offensive [i.e. in the directions of the main attacks of the 1st Baltic and Western fronts] is possible only by rail.”
Did our people shoot at this railway? They shot, but actually on the sheer enthusiasm of the commander of the 33rd Army, V.N. Gorodov.
Head of the Operations Department Colonel I.A. Tolkonyuk was quite skeptical about this desire of V.N. Gordov. He writes in his memoirs: “No matter how the commander fumed, the task he set for the artillery remained unfulfilled. Some short artillery attacks on the railway, or rather on moving trains at night, did not achieve their goals.”
We reached it! That's the point, they achieved it. In the ZhBD of the German 3rd Panzer Army, in the entry for January 20, the opinion expressed on this matter by its commander Reinhardt is noted:
“The outcome of the battle in the Vitebsk region depends on the uninterrupted operation of the Vitebsk-Orsha railway. Therefore, the commander ordered to immediately suppress enemy artillery that was disrupting traffic along this railway. lines"
But the Germans were not put to the test. Because did not know the real effect of their actions. Gordov made a bunch of other mistakes, but with blows to the railroad. highway Orsha-Vitebsk was 100% right. This is the paradox and the Pekingham effect. It must be remembered when assessing events and always compared with the enemy’s data. When there are any, of course.
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Russian massive rail system has provided them outstanding supply efforts. Putin's years of attention to upgrades in technology and manufacturing of all types has given them an outstanding advantage. In war Russia has found strength and no longer thinks the West is superior. They for years they tried to work with the west but only received the cold shoulder or lies.
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[REGNUM] The American Ambassador to Lithuania, Kara McDonald, made a scandalous statement by local standards. She expressed that Lithuanians should remove monuments to Holocaust participants from public space, even if these figures opposed Soviet power.
The ambassador's statement was the result of active actions by the Jewish community of Lithuania, which is not the first time to receive US support. Local nationalists are very dissatisfied with this, but are forced to endure it, because you cannot argue against the hegemon.
Ghosts of Killers
“I will continue to speak out forcefully to prevent the glorification of individuals whose participation in the Holocaust is known and documented. This is part of the definition of anti-Semitism... Of course, we continue to closely monitor other cases where historical facts and information about the specific role of people in history come to light, ” the diplomat told BNS.
The American ambassador's pass was immediately accepted at the Russian Foreign Ministry. They promised to send materials to this American embassy about the destruction of the population of the occupied territories of the USSR by the German Nazis and their local minions.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova asked the question: “Is this a personal civic feat of Kara MacDonald, or can we expect similar statements from American ambassadors in Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine, where the glorification of Nazi collaborators has also been elevated to the rank of state policy?”
Indeed, in the 90s, monuments and memorial plaques appeared in Lithuania in honor of a number of figures who at one time actively collaborated with the Nazis and participated in the genocide of the Jewish population. Then they joined the “forest brothers” and are now glorified as “fighters against the Soviet occupiers.”
Historian Alexander Dyukov commented on Kara MacDonald’s statement: “As far as I understand, the first candidate for demolition is the monument to Nazi collaborator Juozas Krištaponis in Ukmerge, whose detachment participated in the murders of Jews, Soviet prisoners of war and civilians in Belarus in 1941–1943.”
Last year, this monument was already at the center of a scandal. This happened when the chairman of the NGO “Jewish Community of Lithuania”, lawyer Faina Kuklyanski, arrived in Ukmerge. Until 1941, many Jews lived in the city, but after the start of Hitler’s occupation, the Nazis and local collaborators drove them into a ghetto and then exterminated them.
At the same time, the monument to Krikstaponis, who took an active part in the Holocaust, stands in a place of honor in the city: in the 90s he was proclaimed a “hero of the resistance.” This murderer is a relative of the pre-war Lithuanian dictator Antanas Smetona, the son of his sister. After the Nazis came to Lithuania, Krikštaponis joined the ranks of the police battalion under the command of Major Antanas Impulevičius, later nicknamed the "Butcher of Minsk". The Germans used this battalion for the dirtiest work.
During the years of occupation, up to 206 thousand Jews were exterminated in Lithuania - 190 thousand local residents and those brought from other European countries. And in some cases, the Lithuanians began to destroy their Jewish neighbors even before the Germans arrived, taking advantage of the power vacuum that arose after the departure of Soviet troops.
Thus, massacres took place on June 22–25, 1941 in Kaunas, where the power of the self-proclaimed Provisional Government of Lithuania, which was subsequently not recognized by the Germans, was proclaimed. At the head of this government, local nationalists wanted to install the former diplomat of the pre-war Republic of Lithuania, Kazys Shkirpa.
Shkirpa was one of the inspirers of the “cleansing” operation. “It is very important to get rid of the Jews. Therefore, it is necessary to create such a stuffy atmosphere for Jews in the country that not a single Jew would even dare to think that in the new Lithuania he would still be able to have at least minimal rights and generally the opportunity to live,” reasoned the failed head of the Provisional Government of Lithuania.
In modern Lithuania, streets in Vilnius and Kaunas were named after him. True, in 2019 the street in the capital was renamed - to the great indignation of nationalists.
The true face of "heroes"
After the extermination of Jews on the territory of Lithuania itself, local policemen were transferred to neighboring Belarus, where they also began mass executions - they shot Belarusian Jews and Soviet prisoners of war. Currently, even the official Lithuanian press is forced to admit the facts of the crimes of Juozas Krištaponis, who commanded one of the companies of the Impulevičius battalion.
In particular, the protocol of the interrogation of former police officer Jonas Rutkauskas is known, who almost forty years later said that in the fall of 1941 the battalion was engaged in executions in a concentration camp located in the suburbs of Minsk. “The battalion’s soldiers drove the camp prisoners to the pits and shot them. The executioners were commanded by Krikstaponis, Juodis, Tamosiunas, etc.”, Rutkauskas said.
Another ex-policeman Martynas Kačiulis, who served in the Krištaponis company, said during interrogation that he participated in the extermination of Jews in the Belarusian city of Rudyansk. Company commander Krikštaponis ordered him and other Schutzmanns to go to the already dug holes and shoot defenseless people.
Subsequently, Lithuanian police directly participated in punitive actions directed against civilians in Belarus suspected of harboring partisans. After the Nazis were thrown out of Lithuania, Juozas Krištaponis joined the ranks of the Lithuanian “forest brothers” operating in the rear of the advancing Soviet troops.
The career of the “forest brother” was short-lived - on January 12, 1945, he was shot dead in battle near the city of Ukmerge. It was there that a monument was erected to him half a century later.
The case of Krikstaponis is far from the only one. There are also known examples of other collaborators, murderers of civilians, around whom a cult of official veneration was created in post-Soviet Lithuania. For a long time, both the authorities and Lithuanian nationalists fiercely resisted any attempts to tell the truth about the “exploits” of these “heroes.”
An illustrative example is the memorial plaque in honor of Holocaust accomplice Jonas Noreika, hung on the building of the Academy of Sciences in Vilnius. In April 2019, Lithuanian civil activist Stanislavas Tomas smashed it with a hammer. After this, the then mayor of the Lithuanian capital, Remigijus Šimašius, ordered the sign to be removed. This caused a storm of protest from nationalists, who made a new sign and arbitrarily hung it in its original place.
And soon after this, the leadership of the Jewish community of Lithuania announced that, due to threats, the synagogue in Vilnius would have to be closed for several days. On September 15, 2019, a swastika filled with sand suddenly appeared outside her office. It was then that the United States found it necessary to intervene in the situation.
US State Department Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues Cherry Daniels said that glorifying individuals “whose actions directly led to the persecution and murder of thousands of innocent people during the Holocaust creates divisions that allow the spread of disinformation, the promotion of anti-Semitism and damage to Lithuania’s international reputation.”.
After such a “kick,” even the country’s president, Gitanas Nausėda, found the determination to admit that the tragedy of the Jewish community of Lithuania, destroyed during the Holocaust, was accomplished “not only by a machine of destruction promoted by alien forces, but also because of the choice of his own compatriots.” The President called on Lithuanians to “recognize it and come to terms with it.”
They pretend they didn't hear
The Lithuanian authorities found themselves in a very ambiguous position. On the one hand, the topic of the Holocaust in Lithuania is extremely unprofitable; most local residents do not like to talk about it. At one time, the writer Ruta Vanagaite, who published several books about the participation of Lithuanians in the genocide of the Jews, was so persecuted that she was forced to emigrate.
Vanagaite was especially blamed for the fact that she dared to accuse the commander of the “forest brothers” Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas of complicity in the murders of Jews, whose remains were reburied at the highest state level in October 2018, with the highest honors and in the presence of then President Dalia Grybauskaite ( whose father Polykarpas once served in the NKVD).
The Lithuanian Jewish community has long unsuccessfully demanded the release of a list of approximately 2,000 people who contributed to the Holocaust “at various levels.” At the end of last year, with the support of the United States, after many years of unsuccessful attempts, the community finally “put the squeeze” on the Lithuanian authorities - official Vilnius agreed to pay a rather symbolic sum of €37 million as compensation for property confiscated from Jews killed during the war on the territory of the republic.
Payment of compensation began in 2024 and will end in 2030. This decision caused intense discontent among the nationalists. But they are even more irritated by the fact that Lithuanian Jews have long been demanding the demolition of monuments to “national heroes” who were stained with Jewish blood during the war.
And now the Jews have secured the support of the United States, whose official representative spoke quite unequivocally. We are talking about debunking the memory of more than just Krikštaponis. For example, as recently as the spring of 2021 in Vilnius, one of the public gardens received the name of the commander of the forest brothers Juozas Luksa. Although there is evidence that he also participated in the Kaunas massacre in June 1941.
Lithuanian nationalists created an extensive mythology about "Jewish wine".
In particular, it is argued that when Soviet power was established in Lithuania in 1940, Jews began to join the NKVD and zealously repressed and deported Lithuanians.
In 1941, shortly after the creation of the Jewish ghetto, the remains of 74 people were found nearby at the Rainiai farm, identified as prisoners of the Telšiai prison. Hitler's propaganda stated that this murder was committed by “Jews from the NKVD” on the eve of the retreat of the Red Army.
Nationalists still remember the “Rainiai massacre” when they try to whitewash their fellow tribesmen who participated in the murders of Jews. And such sentiments are very strong in Lithuania today.
Thus, when the Vilnius municipal government recently proposed to name an unnamed park in the Naujamiestis district “Israeli,” local residents began sending letters en masse demanding not to do this. And self-government was forced to abandon its intention.
Most likely, the Lithuanian government will try to pretend that it “did not hear” Ambassador MacDonald’s words. Moreover, until now the United States has not shown much zeal in punishing Nazi criminals. Historian Natalya Selyukina recalls that back in the 60s, Washington ignored a note from the USSR, which demanded the extradition of the aforementioned “Minsk butcher” Impulevičius, who found refuge in the States after the war.
“As for the US response to the note from the Soviet government, it was not forthcoming either before the trial or after,” states Selyukina. And this best characterizes the position of American policy both then and now.
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