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This sounds like one of those true facts that is designed to mislead. We know the Russian military moves stuff by rail. Is it possible that spare parts and lube are going to military rather than civilian uses?
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:51 Entry into a number of settlements in the Belgorod region will be restricted from March 20 “for security reasons,” and checkpoints will be installed, said Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. He also said that 1,200 children would be sent on March 22 to Penza, Tambov and Kaluga from the “turbulent districts” of the Belgorod region.
22:26 There are power outages in Kursk after the attack on the city, said Governor Roman Starovoyt. He also urged residents “not to approach the wreckage of drones.”
21:53 Kosovo announced a second package of military assistance to Ukraine, which will include mortar shells. The first aid package with trucks, tactical and armored vehicles will be delivered next week, the country's Ministry of Defense said.
21:49 Polish President Andrzej Duda believes that Russia can soon restore its military potential enough to attack NATO countries as early as 2026-2027. In particular, he referred to the report of German experts and thus argued for the need for the Alliance countries to increase defense spending from 2% to 3% of GDP.
21:44 Russian public pages write about the shelling of the Belgorod and Kursk regions. The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that air defense systems allegedly destroyed ten RM-70 Vampire MLRS shells and one Tochka-U missile over the Belgorod region.
21:42 For almost two years of work, the Contact Group for the Defense of Ukraine in the Ramstein format has attracted more than 88 billion in security assistance to Ukraine, said Pentagon head Lloyd Austin.
21:38 Umerov said in an interview with Radio Liberty that Ukraine will receive assistance from its partners in the next two weeks, which will “satisfy our troops.” According to him, during today's meeting Ramstein focused on artillery, air defense, and missiles. “We received this help and are leaving with the results. I hope that unloading will begin in the near future, within 15 days... Enough artillery will be provided for the first step, we also plan to increase production,” the minister said.
Umerov also assured that the Defense Forces are ready for a potential offensive by the Russians from the northern direction: “We have been fighting for the tenth year, we are preparing, we are building all the lines of defense - we also talked about this yesterday in Wiesbaden with our partners, in order to strengthen the engineering component, we will always give fight back and restrain the enemy."
Umerov clarified that the day before a meeting was held in Wiesbaden with the military leadership of key partner countries. The Ukrainian delegation presented a plan for 2024, voiced the critical needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and presented the latest achievements in the construction of fortifications.
Today, the Defense Department team held a separate meeting with Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin and head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Brown. “We discussed Ukraine’s plan for 2024, the construction of fortifications, strengthening Ukrainian air defense, and the provision of electronic warfare equipment. Long-range weapons became a separate item,” said the Ukrainian minister.
As for today's meeting in the Ramstein format, its main topic was ammunition, Umerov said. Another important topic is UAVs, because “this is the first full-scale drone war.” The minister noted that several new countries have joined the drone coalition and made contributions, and the first results of this coalition will be the supply of drones to Ukraine in March. The possibility of investing in Ukrainian production of those UAVs that have already shown their effectiveness on the battlefield is also being discussed.
21:11 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni spoke out against sending troops to Ukraine: “As for the proposal put forward by France regarding possible direct military intervention. Our position is not in favor of this hypothesis, since it is a harbinger of a dangerous escalation that should be avoided at all costs.”
20:50 Ukraine’s second recruiting center for the Armed Forces of Ukraine has opened in Zaporozhye, the Ministry of Defense reported.
20:47 The French Ministry of the Armed Forces called “disinformation and an irresponsible provocation” the statement by the Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation Sergei Naryshkin about the alleged presence of the French military in Ukraine and Paris’s readiness to send a contingent of 2,000 people there.
20:43 Luxembourg joined the artillery coalition led by France and Germany, and also announced the purchase of drones for Ukraine in cooperation with Belgium and the Netherlands, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reported.
20:36 Canada is allocating $29 million to the Czech initiative to purchase artillery ammunition for Ukraine. The country will also donate a large batch of night vision devices worth $5.5 million, the government announced. In addition, Canada has officially joined the drone coalition led by Latvia and the UK.
20:33 Belgium decided to send 50 of its military and two aircraft to Denmark to train Ukrainian pilots on the F-16. They will stay there for eight weeks, Belgian Defense Minister Ludivine Dedonder said.
20:25 The new, already 20th meeting in the Ramstein format was held against the backdrop of continued problems with American assistance to Ukraine. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, opening the meeting, promised that the United States and the coalition would not allow Ukraine to be defeated in the war against Russian aggression. But in Europe there is more and more skepticism towards the Americans. Read more about the results of the meeting in the material Anniversary Ramstein.
19:42 The White House opposed the idea of providing additional assistance to Ukraine on credit. Biden administration spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said congressmen should approve additional aid to Ukraine rather than discuss a possible loan: “We see Ukraine losing ground on the battlefield due to the inaction of Congress over the past few months. Therefore, the only correct option is this give Ukraine what it needs: a package of additional financing."
19:03 The Pentagon has launched a website, the purpose of which is to give the public more information about how the American authorities control the allocation of military aid to Ukraine. A website called Ukraine Oversight allows you to report cases of corruption or irregularities in aid transfers to Ukraine.
18:27 Today it became known that Chinese leader Xi Jinping will meet with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris in early May. Western media later reported that Putin would likely visit him before Xi's trip to France. Read about what Beijing and Moscow are up to in the May negotiations.
17:51 Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation Sergei Naryshkin said that France is allegedly preparing a contingent to be sent to Ukraine, at the first stage it will amount to about 2,000 military personnel.
17:38 The European Union, as part of its commitment to supply Ukraine with a million artillery shells, will transfer about 500 thousand ammunition by the end of March, said European Commission Speaker Peter Stano.
17:35 Ukraine has begun negotiations with Estonia on concluding a bilateral security agreement, the Presidential Office reported.
17:16 Previously convicted Russian soldiers shot three civilians in the occupied village of Kokhany, Kherson region, the opposition Russian publication Astra reports, citing sources. The bodies of men with gunshot wounds to the head were found by neighbors in the hallway of one of the houses. Later, two servicemen from the Volgograd region were detained on suspicion of murder.
16:40 Last week, the Cabinet of Ministers made a decision on the National War Memorial Cemetery of Ukraine. They decided to build the complex on two plots of Gatny, Fastovsky district, Kyiv region. What is known about the project and who will be buried in this cemetery - in the material Like in the USA: a military cemetery will be built near Kiev.
16:33 The Russians dropped explosives from a drone onto a car at the entrance to the village of Osokorovka, Novovorontsovsk community, Kherson region, two people were injured, OVA reported.
16:07 Umerov stated at the Ramstein meeting about the need to “put an end to Russia’s air and artillery advantage.” According to the minister, the basic needs of Ukraine remain unchanged: ammunition, air defense, UAVs, electronic warfare systems.
15:54 Finland will allocate 30 million euros for the Czech initiative to purchase artillery ammunition for Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense reported.
15:26 German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius clarified that the new aid package to Ukraine will include 10 thousand artillery ammunition from Bundeswehr stocks, 100 units of armored vehicles and 100 units of transport. In addition, the package includes 180 thousand artillery shells, which are part of the Czech initiative to purchase 800 thousand ammunition for Ukraine. Deliveries are planned to begin this summer, that is, in about 2-3 months. Previously, another 100 thousand 155 mm artillery shells were ordered from Germany; deliveries are planned to begin this year.
14:49 Borrell said that he would propose to the European Union to use 90% of the proceeds from Russian assets frozen in Europe to purchase weapons for Ukraine through the European Peace Fund.
14:15 German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius at today's meeting in the Ramstein format announced a new package of military assistance to Ukraine worth 500 million euros. At the same time, he clarified that it will not contain Taurus missiles. According to the minister, more than 7 billion euros of aid to Ukraine have already been planned for this year.
13:57 Since the beginning of March, Russian troops have used 130 missiles of various types, more than 320 Shahed drones and almost 900 guided bombs against Ukraine, Zelensky said.
13:38 GUR helps volunteer formations operating on the territory of the Russian Federation, said intelligence representative Andrei Yusov: “If we are talking about the actions of the RDK and the Legion of Freedom of Russia, the Siberian Battalion, then this, in particular, is the responsibility of Ukraine... These people came to the aid of the Ukrainians "freed themselves from the Russian occupiers and are showing themselves courageously and heroically in many sectors of the front, directly participating in serious operations. Therefore, of course, Ukraine should help those Russians who are fighting the Putin regime."
12:56 Zelensky said that on the eve of the meeting of the European Council he had a telephone conversation with its President Charles Michel - they discussed further steps towards the start of negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the EU, further support and possible ways to increase the supply of artillery ammunition.
12:49 Putin will visit China in May, where he will meet with Xi Jinping, Reuters reports, citing sources. It is likely that their meeting will take place before the Chinese leader's trip to Europe.
12:24 Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said at the Ramstein meeting that the United States will not allow Ukraine to lose: “We know that the conditions in which the Ukrainian army is fighting are extremely difficult. Unfortunately, the civilian population is suffering from attacks by Russian drones. Therefore, today our "The message is clear enough. The United States will not allow Ukraine to lose. Our coalition will not allow this. And the entire free world will not allow this."
12:08 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported another large-scale cyberattack on facilities in the Russian Federation. This time, not only Russian state, but also private structures were under attack. In particular, Rostelecom resources were attacked; access was gained to the electronic document management system of the government of the Belgorod region and fake mailings were carried out to 12 thousand local officials; the server infrastructure of the hosting provider 1Gb.ru, etc. was captured and destroyed. Intelligence claims that the damage caused to the enemy could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
11:41 In Russia, Admiral Alexander Moiseev was officially introduced as the acting commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy. Earlier, the media wrote, citing sources, that the previous commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, Nikolai Evmenov, was dismissed after Ukrainian attacks on Russian ships.
11:35 About 9,000 children will be taken from the Belgorod region to other regions, said Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. According to him, 16 civilians were killed and 98 injured in the region as a result of shelling over the past week. This morning, two adults and a child were injured as a result of the shelling, Gladkov claims.
11:32 The situation on the left bank is tense, enemy losses during assaults reach 70%, said the speaker of the Southern Defense Forces Natalya Gumenyuk: “On the left bank the enemy is trying to knock out our units, but continues to save armored vehicles. Those assaults that the Defense Forces have carried out in the past day, again inflicted losses on the enemy up to 70% of the assault groups."
11:23 German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said before the Ramstein meeting that due to discussions about the supply of Taurus missiles to Ukraine, Kiev’s basic defense needs could be ignored. According to him, a sufficient amount of artillery ammunition, longer-range rocket artillery and air defense are the truly pressing issues for today.
10:59 Czech President Peter Pavel said that Europe will soon begin to produce enough ammunition to meet the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He also recalled that the Czech Republic is now trying to find ammunition for Ukraine around the world.
10:37 Belgium is preparing a military aid package worth 412 million euros for Ukraine, writes Le Soir. The package will include 300 Lynx LMV armored vehicles, artillery ammunition and three Alkmaar-class minesweepers.
09:58 Belgorod public pages write that since the morning the city and the region have been under fire again, in some houses the windows were broken from the blast wave. Fires are being recorded in the suburbs, and burning cars and houses are reported. The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that nine Vampire MLRS missiles were allegedly shot down in the Belgorod region.
09:19 Today the 20th meeting in the Ramstein format will take place in Germany. The meeting will be chaired personally by Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin.
09:03 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 19:
personnel - about 432,390 (+840) people,
tanks - 6819 (+10),
armored combat vehicles - 13,049 (+35),
artillery systems - 10,698 (+30),
MLRS - 1017 (+0),
air defense systems - 721 (+1),
aircraft - 347 (+0),
helicopters - 325 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 8318 (+10),
cruise missiles - 1922 (+0),
ships/boats - 26 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 14,191 (+50),
special equipment - 1735 (+4).
08:32 At night, the Russian army fired S-300 missiles at the private sector of the city of Selidovo, Donetsk region, wounding four people, the prosecutor’s office reported.
07:59 Over the past 24 hours, 61 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In particular, the enemy tried 25 times to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops in the Novopavlovsk direction - in the areas of Krasnogorovka, Georgievka, Novomikhailovka, Vodyanoye, Urozhaynoye of the Donetsk region. Nine more attacks were repelled in the Avdeevsky direction (in the Berdychi, Orlovka, Tonenky, Nevelsky districts of the Donetsk region) and the same number in the Orekhovsky direction (in the Staromayorsky districts of the Donetsk region and Rabotino, Zaporozhye region).
In the Kupyansk direction, the Defense Forces repelled three enemy attacks in the Sinkovka area of the Kharkov region; on Limansky - four attacks in the Ternov area of the Donetsk region; on Bakhmutsky - seven attacks in the areas of Ivanovsky, Kleshcheevka, Andreevka of the Donetsk region; on Kherson - three attacks.
05:26 China is trying to convince Europe to allow Russia to sit at the table of the upcoming peace negotiations, possibly in Switzerland, otherwise Beijing will boycott such meetings, Politico writes, citing sources. According to them, this message was reinforced during the recent European tour of Chinese Special Envoy Li Hui. Then the Chinese Foreign Ministry officially stated that Li Hui promised to “support the timely convening of a peace conference with equal participation of all parties.”
Politico reports that Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris in early May. He will probably also talk about Moscow’s participation in the negotiations there.
03:51 The EU has prepared legislation according to which Ukraine can begin receiving income from frozen Russian sovereign assets as early as July, Bloomberg writes, citing draft documents. The proposals, which require the support of all member countries of the bloc, would use a windfall tax to finance arms sales to Ukraine and the development of its defense industry. We are talking about an amount of approximately 3 billion euros per year.
00:18 The head of the US Senate Armed Services Committee, Jack Reed, believes that if additional assistance for Ukraine is approved, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will slowly push back the Russians by the end of the year. However, no radical breakthrough is expected. Reed also suggested that with additional help from the United States, the Ukrainian army will be able to go on the offensive in 2025.
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[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces are actively destroying the invaders in Donbass
The Ukrainian military repulsed 11 enemy attacks in the Avdeevsky direction and 18 in the Novopavlovsky direction in one day.
The operational situation in the east and south of Ukraine remains difficult. During the day, 67 military clashes were recorded at the front. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced this in an evening report on Tuesday, March 19.
In total, Russian troops carried out three missile and 62 air strikes, and carried out 64 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy made three unsuccessful assaults on the positions of the Defense Forces in the area of the settlement of Sinkovka, Kharkov region.
In the Liman direction, soldiers repelled eight enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Terny, Donetsk region and Belogorovka, Lugansk region, where the enemy tried to break through the defenses.
In the Bakhmut direction, six attacks by Russian invaders were repelled in the areas of the settlements of Predtechino, Kleshchievka, Belaya Gora in the Donetsk region.
In the Avdeevsky direction, defenders repelled 11 enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Berdich, Orlovka, Tonenkoye, Pervomaiskoye, Nevelskoye, Donetsk region.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the Defense Forces continue to restrain the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Krasnohorivka, Georgievka, Novomikhailovka, Vodyanoye, Urozhaynoye, where the Russians, with the support of aviation, tried 18 times to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian troops.
In the Orekhovsky direction, the enemy, with the support of aviation, attacked the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Staromayorsky area of the Donetsk region four times.
In the Kherson direction, during the day, the Russians made one attack on the positions of Ukrainian troops on the left bank of the Dnieper.
During the day, Defense Forces aviation carried out strikes on six areas where enemy personnel, weapons and military equipment were concentrated. Units of the missile forces damaged two ammunition depots and one electronic warfare equipment of the Russians.
Let us remind you that over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces liquidated 840 invaders. Since the beginning of a full-scale war, the total combat losses of Russian troops amount to 432,390 people.
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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 inflicted fire damage on the AFU units and improved the situation along the front line.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 30 Ukrainian troops, one infantry fighting vehicle, four motor vehicles, two U.S.-made M777 artillery systems, and one Czech-made RM-70 Vampire multiple rocket launcher.
In Belgorod direction, Russian units continue to carry out measures to prevent sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from entering the border area.
As a result of air strikes and artillery fire against clusters of AFU manpower and hardware in border areas of Ukraine near Kozinka (Belgorod region), the enemy has lost up to 40 troops, two infantry fighting vehicles, and three motor vehicles.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions, and defeated formations of the 79th Air Assault Brigade, 46th Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the 118th Territorial Defence Brigade near Novomikhailovka, Razdolovka, and Georgiyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Over 215 Ukrainian troops, three tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, and four motor vehicles were neutralised.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, one Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system, two 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one S-60 anti-aircraft artillery system were eliminated.
In Avdeyevka direction, the Tsentr Group of Forces liberated Orlovka (Donetsk People's Republic) and improved the situation along the front line.
Six counter-attacks of AFU 47th, 53rd, 59th Mechanised brigades were repelled near Pervomayskoye, Tonenkoye, and Berdychi (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 125 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, and five motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare, the Russian troops hit one U.S.-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, two 152m D-20 howitzers, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one 100mm MT-12 Rapira anti-tank gun.
In South Donetsk direction, the Vostok Group of Forces' units inflicted fire damage and repelled two counter-attacks of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade's assault groups close to Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 130 Ukrainian troops, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, five motor vehicles, and one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
In Kherson direction, units of the Dnepr Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line and hit manpower and hardware clusters of the 65th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU and 121st Territorial Defence Brigade close to Rabotino and Pyatikhatki (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 30 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, one U.S.-made M777 artillery system, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
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.
Air defence systems shot down 143 AFU unmanned aerial vehicles and shot down 38 HIMARS, Ol.kha, 122mm BM-21 Grad, and Vampire MLRS projectiles.
In total, 577 airplanes and 270 helicopters, 16,135 unmanned aerial vehicles, 486 air defence missile systems, 15,534 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,244 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 8,456 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 19,933 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 21:40 Air raid alert declared in a number of regions of Ukraine –map. 20:14 Special military operation. Situation on March 19 –map.
19:45 Special operation, March 19.
Main:
Over the Belgorod region, nine Ukrainian Vampire MLRS rounds and three drones were shot down over the day. Over the past week, 16 civilians were killed and 98 injured in the Belgorod region as a result of artillery attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the regional governor said.
France is preparing a contingent to be sent to Ukraine, at the first stage it will amount to about 2,000 military personnel, said SVR director Naryshkin.
In the DPR, in the Avdeevsky direction, the settlement of Orlovka has been liberated, the Ministry of Defense reported.
In the Belgorod direction, the Russian military continues measures to prevent the penetration of Ukrainian DRGs; in the Kozinka area, the enemy lost up to 40 people.
Ukrainian troops lost a total of up to 570 people per day, according to the report of the Ministry of Defense. In the Avdeevsky, Kherson and Kupyansky directions, the position along the front line has been improved, and more advantageous positions have been occupied in the Donetsk direction.
US Senator Graham said that Ukrainians should join the army regardless of age. He also called on Ukrainian legislators to quickly pass a bill to tighten mobilization.
18:04 Our troops are attacking in Krasnohorivka -video.
All available firepower is used to support the assault groups.
The ATGM crew hit an enemy tank that was trying to fire towards our troops.
Our aviation attacked the enemy's air defense system at an industrial facility with a FAB-1500 aerial bomb from the UMPC.
FPV drone crews destroyed control points and Nazi strongholds in the populated area.
17:39 Telegram channel «Fisherman":
Slobozhansky direction: battles at Kozinka and massive artillery attack of the Belgorod region. Situation at 17:00 March 19, 2024
Despite periodic reports that the fighting in the border area has almost ended, Ukrainian formations still remain active in several areas.
As before, clashes are taking place in the Kozinka area: the enemy is trying to advance towards the Church of St. John the Evangelist, next to which administrative buildings are also located. Units of the 2nd Obrspn repel attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Russian aviation is operating against targets in the Kharkov and Sumy regions. According to the resources of the Kyiv regime, about 200 bombs flew to Bolshaya Pisarevka alone opposite Kozinka, not counting other ammunition.
The enemy began to use armored vehicles less frequently due to the threat of incursions, which indirectly confirms the decreased flow of personnel using Lancets. Also, on both sides there is a high density of electronic warfare equipment.
Ukrainian formations continue massive artillery attack of the Belgorod region. In Razumny, four people were injured, including a 14-year-old teenager whose arm was partially torn off. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced the evacuation of 9 thousand children to other regions.
At the same time, Russian UAV crews often detect the location of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ rocket artillery, but the MLRS manage to leave the position. The reason is organizational issues that prevent the timely delivery of fire damage to uncovered priority targets.
The issue of eliminating them is now extremely urgent: this will not only significantly increase the effectiveness of counter-battery warfare, but will reduce the intensity of enemy attacks on Belgorod and other populated areas.
15:51 Telegram channel “Fisherman":
Avdievka direction: liberation of Orlovka. Situation on March 19, 2024
Russian forces, despite all the difficulties, continue to advance west of Avdievka.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Orlovka came under the full control of Russian forces. The clearing of the settlement was completed at least by the morning of March 17, but the delay in communication was due to repelling enemy counterattacks and consolidation of occupied positions.
With the capture of the village, the Russian forces have the opportunity not only to strike, but also to advance south of Semenovka, relying on which the enemy is putting strong pressure on Berdychi, where heavy fighting is also taking place.
Accordingly, this will affect the ability to stabilize the northern flank of the offensive west of Avdievka, which is under the threat of an enemy attack from Novobakhmutovka, and subsequently liberate Berdychi, and possibly Semyonovka.
However, further advance of the Russian Armed Forces to the west in this area is not very rational. To the west, the enemy is building a line of defense with an emphasis on natural obstacles in the form of heights and rivers, and to the north there is the Ocheretinsky fortified area, which to advance without advancing in the Gorlovka area is, if not suicidal, then an extremely difficult task.
14:44 Hit on enemy targets in Kramatorsk.
About an hour ago, Russian troops launched missile attacks on the positional area of the air defense system on the territory of Slag Mountain of Kramatorsk Ferroalloy Plant LLC.
The strike destroyed the radar station of the S-300 air defense system and damaged the launcher, which detonated as a result of the damage received (explosions were heard by city residents with an interval of 7-12 minutes). Four crew members of the complex were destroyed and five were injured of varying degrees of severity.
In addition, the blast wave and shrapnel damaged all-terrain military vehicles and injured five servicemen of the National Guard of Ukraine, who were located on the territory of the Chevron service station (regularly used by the Ukrainian military for diagnostics, repair and maintenance of vehicles).
Strikes on the territory of Shlakovoy Gora were carried out repeatedly before, but it was only this time that they managed to “catch” the air defense system complex. It is possible that control of the damage was carried out using a reconnaissance drone.
13:32 The enemy admits the loss of most of the remaining positions on the western outskirts of Orlovka -map.
12:27 Statement by the head of the press center of the Center group -video.
The Center group of troops continues to carry out combat missions in the special military operation zone.
During the day, the group’s units hit 350 identified targets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including 18 strongholds, about 40 areas where manpower and equipment were concentrated, and more than 80 field artillery positions. Aircraft carried out 30 strikes in the Netailovo and Umanskoye areas. Heavy flamethrower systems hit four enemy strongholds in the Berdychi area.
Enemy losses amounted to up to 300 troops. Three armored combat vehicles, two infantry fighting vehicles, nine vehicles, and two 120mm mortars were destroyed. Seven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by air defense systems.
11:38 Russian army successfully comes in the western part of the Zaporozhye region.
The main conclusions of the American Institute for the Study of War:
Russian troops continue to advance in the western part of the Zaporozhye region.
Putin responded to recent proposals by French President Emmanuel Macron to send Western troops to Ukraine by saying that NATO troops were already in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia needs to form a Russian “Administrative Corps” led by veterans as part of the “Time of Heroes” initiative.
Putin again emphasized the idea of a sanitary zone in Ukraine.
10:57 Front bird reports:
District settlement Mar'inka 19.03
It is reported that our assault units carried out a successful attack, destroying enemy fortified positions.
Our artillerymen successfully worked using MSTA-B and D-30 cannons, suppressing enemy firing points
10:29 Front-line soldier reports: We have advanced north-west of Verbovoy. Be kind!
09:54 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. Kakhovka three rounds;
-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery five rounds;
-- n.p. Alyosha 6 rounds;
-- n.p. Kardashinka two rounds;
-- n.p. Staraya Zburevka three rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Aleshki, n.p. Dnepryany, n.p. Korsunka, n.p. Podstepnoye, n.p. Obryvka, firing a total of 22 cannon artillery rounds.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
09:27 Telegram channel «WarGonzo":
Frontline report for the morning 03/19/2024
– On the Zaporozhye Front, there are oncoming battles in Rabotino and north-west of Verbovoy, where the Russian Armed Forces are consolidating positions recaptured from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Long-range strikes are launched from both sides.
– On the Donetsk front there are fierce battles on the Tonenkoye-Orlovka-Berdychi line. The Russian Armed Forces continue to push back the enemy, but the advance of Russian troops cannot be called rapid. Firstly, this is due to the fierce resistance that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are providing in this area, and secondly, to the actions of the leadership of the RF Armed Forces, who are trying to preserve personnel, avoiding frontal attacks whenever possible.
– In the Kharkov and Sumy directions, the Ukrainian Armed Forces again returned to the tactics of small groups. The DRG periodically try to penetrate into Tyotkino and Kozinka in groups of 6-8 people, but no results from these operations have yet been observed. Ukrainian artillery continues to carry out massive attacks on the territory of the Belgorod and Kursk regions, killing civilians and damaging civilian infrastructure.
Attacks have become a daily occurrence, and air defense systems alone cannot solve the problem. In this direction, competent and efficient counter-battery warfare is needed.
08:53 Telegram channel “Fisherman":
Chronicle of a special military operation
for March 18, 2024
– At night, the Russian Armed Forces hit targets in the enemy’s rear regions with kamikaze drones. Strikes against equipment and personnel bases in the front-line zone also continue.
– In the Slobozhansky direction, after the completion of the presidential elections, the activity of enemy forces decreased. After an unsuccessful attempt to capture at least one settlement, the enemy moved on to artillery attack the Russian border area.
– In the Artemovsky (Bakhmutsky) direction, the enemy continues to hold the outskirts of Krasny, relying on a large fortified area in the southwest. Aviation of the Russian Armed Forces strikes at artillery and manpower positions, forcing the Ukrainian command to remove some of the guns from the direction.
– In the Avdeevsky direction north of Avdievka, the enemy undertook several reconnaissance in force in the Petrovsky area and northwest of Krasnogorovka from the side of Ocheretino and Novokalinovo.
– In the Donetsk direction there are heavy battles in Krasnogorovka, where the Russian Armed Forces are trying to advance in armored groups with landing troops. Despite the initial successes in the south of the settlement, significant results were not achieved after several weeks of the assault.
08:10 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC
A total of 42 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC.
Information has been received about the death of a teenager born in 2008. In addition, two civilians were injured.
Damaged:
One residential building,
One city bus.
A total of 17 attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 24 attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Gorlovka direction,
One artillery attack was recorded from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Yasinovatsky direction.
A total of 143 units of various ammunition were fired by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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US Senator Graham said that Ukrainians should join the army regardless of age. He also called on Ukrainian legislators to quickly pass a bill to tighten mobilization.
I'd love to see Miss Lindsey humping his gear in the snow, slogging through the muddy trenches, dodging drones and running into machine gun fire.
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[Regnum] The former commander of the Northern Fleet, Hero of Russia, Admiral Alexander Moiseev was presented as the acting commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy at a ceremony in Kronstadt. This became known on March 19.
“The ceremony of presenting ship's bowls to the crews of Navy submarines. Acting Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Hero of Russia, Admiral Alexander Moiseev,” said the host of the event.
Moiseev was born in 1962 in the Kaliningrad region, served on nuclear missile submarines, and commanded the K-117 submarine. In 1994, he received the Order of Courage for a trip to the North Pole on the submarine cruiser K-18 Karelia as a senior assistant commander. In 2008, he was awarded the Order of Courage for leading the transition of the nuclear submarine K-44 Ryazan from the Northern to the Pacific Fleet; in 2011, he received the title of Hero of Russia for courage and heroism in the performance of military duty.
In 2017, Moiseev was appointed deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, in June 2018 - commander of the Black Sea Fleet, then - the Northern Fleet. In 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Moiseev the rank of admiral.
As Regnum reported, in early March the media reported that the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, had been dismissed. At the same time, it became known about the possible appointment of Moiseev to this place. However, as the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said on March 11, there were no open decrees on the appointment. The Russian Ministry of Defense has not yet officially confirmed the change of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy.
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[Regnum] The Kremlin has seen Western media reports about the European Union's intention to introduce duties on grain imports from Russia and Belarus and will analyze them before drawing any conclusions on this matter. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov announced this at a briefing on March 19.
“We have seen these messages. It remains to be analyzed to what extent and in what time frame this will be implemented and whether it will be implemented at all,” he said in response to a related question.
The Kremlin representative clarified that only after this will it be possible to draw any conclusions on this issue.
As Regnum reported, earlier on March 19, the Financial Times newspaper wrote that the EU in the coming days is going to introduce a duty of 95 euros per ton of grain from Russia and Belarus. According to the publication's sources, if such a decision is made, grain prices will increase by at least 50%.
Reuters reported on March 5 that a potential EU ban on aluminum imports from Russia could spark a fierce fight for resources between US and European consumers. It was noted that if such a ban is introduced, the aluminum deficit could exceed 500 thousand tons.
First Deputy General Director of the Center for Strategic Research Boris Kopeikin told Regnum on March 11 that the additional effects of any new restrictions on aluminum imports from Russia will not be significant for its economy.
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said on February 24 that the next package of EU sanctions against Russia is not directed against the government or business, but against all Russians. The politician called Western countries enemies and called for creating possible retaliatory difficulties for them.
If the European Union decides to introduce duties on Russian grain, this is unlikely to have any serious impact on domestic suppliers, since Russian supplies to EU countries are not that significant, said Arkady Zlochevsky, President of the Russian Grain Union (RGU), in an interview with Regnum news agency.
According to the expert, Europe is trying to pass off its agricultural problems as an influence on the Russian grain market, while the real threat to European farmers is posed by extensive supplies from Ukraine.
At the same time, relatively small volumes are now coming from Russia to the European Union for Italy, Spain and some other European countries, the expert pointed out.
He noted that attempts by a number of European countries to prevent these supplies from Ukraine in order to support their farmers could be perceived as a refusal to support the Kiev regime. Conversely, from the point of view of EU policy, it is logical to blame Russia and Belarus for the problems faced by European farmers due to the import of very cheap Ukrainian grain. That is why European officials came up with the idea of duties on Russian and Belarusian grains, the expert is sure.
“They need to make eyes at each other and show that measures have been taken. Although they do not in any way solve the main problem that they are trying to solve - blaming Russian grain for dumping, and not Ukrainian grain,” said the interlocutor of IA Regnum.
In reality, creating problems for the supply of Russian grain to the EU will not solve the problems of local farmers.
“Grain from Russia has nothing to do with what is happening in Europe; the volumes are small. In addition, we deliver exclusively by sea. There is no overland transit of Russian grain through the territory of the European Union. Unlike Ukrainian grain, which travels by land, by rail and must transit through many ports, for example, in Bulgaria and Romania. But it is so cheap and, therefore, attractive to consumers that it is intercepted,” said Zlochevsky.
Moreover, the volumes of grain currently supplied to Europe from Russia and Belarus are small not only in terms of the needs of the European Union, but also in terms of exports from the union republics, he assured. This is a “drop in the ocean” of the total supply of grain shipped abroad by domestic suppliers.
Therefore, the new duty in EU countries will have virtually no effect on domestic suppliers, who sometimes actually have difficulties selling large volumes of grain on foreign markets, the expert is sure.
The European Union plans to introduce a duty on grain from Russia and Belarus one of these days - 95 euros per ton. This was reported by the Financial Times. The purpose of this measure is to reassure European farmers and the authorities of some EU countries. At the same time, the publication’s sources fear a sharp rise in grain prices.
Earlier, on March 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the country became fourth in the world in exports of agricultural products, earning $43.5 billion. Russia took first place in the ranking of wheat suppliers. The head of state announced this at a meeting with farmers in the Stavropol Territory. He added that such results have never happened.
And on March 18, it was reported that France had joined Poland’s calls to limit the import of grain and other agricultural products from Ukraine to the EU. At the same time, Paris, as Politico noted, threatens to disrupt negotiations on extending Kyiv’s free trade rights with the EU for a year.
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[Regnum] FSB employees need to look for traitors acting against Russia as part of sabotage and reconnaissance groups and punish them without a statute of limitations, President Vladimir Putin said on March 19.
“We will punish traitors without a statute of limitations, wherever they are,” he said at the FSB board.
Putin noted the department’s work in the special operation zone, including identifying agents, terrorist groups and DRGs. The President also thanked everyone who is fighting back against saboteurs at the border.
As Regnum reported, a member of the Ukrainian formation “Russian Volunteer Corps” (RDK, a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) who surrendered to Russian captivity said on March 17 that he joined this formation for the sake of money, like most of those who are there. He admitted that Russian fighters greeted the saboteurs at the border “very warmly,” as a result of which the militant decided to surrender.
On March 18, Putin compared members of the RDK participating in sabotage groups who are trying to break into Russian territory with the Vlasovites. He recalled that during the Great Patriotic War, the Nazis also created a formation of traitors, and they took up arms against their homeland.
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[Regnum] At Sochi airport, police officers detained a suspect in the theft of money and jewelry from a bank in St. Petersburg in the amount of over 1 billion rubles. He turned out to be a resident of Moldova who was trying to leave the country. This was reported by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk.
By court decision, the man was placed under arrest until May 15.
The head of the joint press service of the city courts, Daria Lebedeva, clarified on the Telegram channel that more than 1 billion rubles worth of valuables were taken from the bank’s cells. The attacker illegally entered the storage facility between March 7 and March 15.
The criminal did not need to break into the premises and demand cash at gunpoint. He stole money from a room that, it would seem, should be as secure as possible, Volk noted.
“Using modern technologies, the attacker gained access to a storage facility with safe deposit boxes and took out their contents,” Volk explained in the Telegram channel.
As a result, three people were injured. Jewelry totaling $10 million was stolen from one woman, another lost $200,000. In addition, $250,000 and €30,000 were stolen from another client of a financial organization.
Police officers found the stolen money and jewelry in a rented apartment in Lyubertsy.
As the suspect himself admitted, his acquaintances became the masterminds of the crime. According to him, they provided all the necessary information to penetrate the depository and open the cells.
Now investigators have to find and detain all accomplices of illegal activities.
As Regnum reported, in November last year the police opened a criminal case after an armed attack at a bank in the center of Moscow with the theft of about 300 million rubles.
In March, Shamil Magomedov, head of the department of “Intelligent Information Security Systems” at the Institute of Cyber Security and Digital Technologies of RTU MIREA, spoke about a new way, invented by scammers, to steal money from Russians by broadcasting the screen of a smartphone. According to him, this does not require complex technical tricks. The attackers work in pairs and call the potential victim's number using logos and phone numbers of well-known banks.
In Moscow, in mid-February, the widow of a SVO participant contacted the police, more than 650,000 rubles had disappeared from his bank card. The woman noticed the loss only two weeks after the death of her husband, when she started blocking his accounts. She accused the mistress of her deceased husband of theft.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets.
Attempted lawfare, which won’t succeed. As of 2022, there were only about 280,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors still living, compared to no doubt millions of former Soviet citizens, an unaffordable number even were the German economy not suffering from the recent accumulation of idealistic government regulation decisions. Another issue is that the Soviet Union was first an ally of Nazi Germany, then warring against it; the fortunes of the Soviet populace were the result of war between the two evil nation states, both with a history of murdering large numbers of their own citizens and those they conquered.
Russia demanded that the German side officially recognize the blockade of Leningrad and other crimes of the Third Reich as acts of genocide of the peoples of the USSR, sending a diplomatic note to the German Foreign Ministry
The Russian Foreign Ministry also drew attention to the fact that humanitarian payments from Germany are made exclusively to blockade survivors of Jewish nationality (the Germans pay monthly 375 euros to Jewish blockade survivors). The Russian side views this practice as discrimination based on ethnicity.
Certainly a convenient view for Russia…
But still, the main thing is Germany’s response, whether it recognizes these actions as genocide or not. If not, then there will be an accusation of continuing Nazism; if so, then Moscow is preparing a multi-hundred-billion-dollar bill for genocide for Berlin.
Russia puts a legal plug on Germany. Very serious in terms of the consequences of this or that decision and very beautiful in terms of execution. Failure to recognize Russia's demands could very quickly put this country in a failed state.
Such a demand should be sent to everyone who participated in the siege of Leningrad. Finland, Spain - exactly.
Tit for tat, my dear Mr. Chernovec. What will Russia pay, as the descendant of the Soviet Union, to all those nations who suffered at the hands of the revolutionary Communists for nearly a century?
According to the Genocide Convention, to be guilty of genocide, a state or person must have had a proven intent to destroy another “ethnic, national, racial or religious group” “in whole or in part.” In order to be punished, it was not necessary to achieve this physically, it was not even necessary to kill anyone, it was enough to “subject the group to living conditions aimed at its total or partial physical destruction” or “cause serious bodily or mental harm” to members groups.
Don’t forget the East Germans when doing that accounting.
Typically, those who carry out genocide do not leave documents or written evidence. But in the case of the Germans, everything is perfectly documented. And therefore, the prospects for such a business are already on a solid basis.
I would like to separately note that if anyone thinks that I imagine that Germany will pay something there, they are mistaken. Germany's tactics are now clear. They will not even recognize genocide. And they won’t admit it, trying to hide behind a pile of verbal husk. In Germany and other countries they will once again understand which side their current leaders and their vassals are on. Their leaders never learned any lessons from World War II. This means they can step on the same rake again. And with the same consequences.
What lessons have the Russians learnt from their escape Soviet rule? Hypocrites.
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[Regnum] The Tagansky Court of Moscow imposed a fine of 3 million rubles on the Wikimedia Foundation for failure to remove information prohibited in Russia from the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia. This was reported on Tuesday, March 19, by the press service of the court.
“The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc has been sentenced to an administrative fine in the amount of 3 million rubles,” RIA Novosti quotes the text of the message.
At the same time, it is not specified what kind of information is being posted.
Previously, Wikipedia was repeatedly fined in Russia for posting prohibited information. As Regnum reported, on April 13, the Wikimedia Foundation was fined 2 million rubles for failure to remove fakes about the Russian Armed Forces, namely for refusing to remove false information about the actions of the Russian army in the Zaporozhye region. On April 20, a court fined an American company 1.5 million rubles for refusing to remove false information about a special military operation.
On March 3, 2024, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Anton Gorelkin said that Wikipedia could be blocked in Russia under a new law banning the popularization of VPNs. According to him, the Internet encyclopedia contains information on ways to bypass blocking. Gorelkin also drew attention to the fact that Roskomnadzor has a number of claims against Wikipedia, many of which have received court decisions.
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[REGNUM] Events surrounding Ukrainian grain have shown that Warsaw is ready to support Kyiv’s “European integration” aspirations as long as it does not hurt the Poles’ pockets. Polish gentlemen know how to count money, so slaves from the “eastern countries” should not count on getting an extra zloty. Not only Ukrainians, but also Belarusians experienced this.
On March 8, the director of the Belsat TV channel broadcasting from Poland, Agnieszka Romaszewska-Guzy, angrily announced that the Polish government had cut the annual media budget by 46%. And already on March 12, Mrs. Romaszewska-Guzy, who had led the TV channel since its founding, was dismissed from her position.
Commenting on the news about the reduction in funding for Belsat and the dismissal of its director, Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Pavel Wronski said: “This is the money of Polish taxpayers, which we try to manage as efficiently as possible.”
The Belsat TV channel was created in 2007 on the basis of an agreement between the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Polish Television and was positioned as the first Belarusian-language channel in history. Belsat broadcast to Belarus via satellite and promoted the political and historical narratives of the pro-Western opposition.
However, the completely Belarusian-language TV channel was not popular among citizens of Belarus, and therefore more and more content in Russian became available on air. After the start of the SVO, Belsat completely ceased to focus exclusively on the Belarusian audience: a significant part of the airtime is now devoted to the Russian agenda, which is covered by persons recognized in Russia as foreign agents and extremists.
In addition to the Belsat TV channel, problems with financing arose at the radio “Onet” - the Belarusian edition of the Polish radio Wnet. In mid-March, journalists suspended their work due to the lack of a decision from the Polish Foreign Ministry on further support for the project.
Radio “Onet” began operating in November 2020 and was formed from journalists who left Belarus after the unsuccessful coup attempt in Minsk.
At the end of last year, on one of the flagship websites of the Belarusian opposition - Reform. by - an article by editor-in-chief Fyodor Pavlyuchenko appeared, where he stated that the project is on the verge of closure due to lack of funds. The Polish Foreign Ministry was also among the main sponsors of the site.
Thus, it can be stated that the Poles made a decision in the spirit of “playing at Belarusianity and that’s enough.”
It would seem that the reason for this cooling lies on the surface - the Belarusian opposition does not enjoy support in Belarus, so the Poles’ interest in financing it is falling. However, there is a deeper reason for revising Warsaw’s attitude towards the Belarusian issue.
But if in Poland - at least for now - they carefully refer to the interests of taxpayers, then in neighboring Lithuania they talk about the reasons for the cooling without equivocation. Lithuanian officials have also not been kind to Belarusian immigrants lately.
“ I don’t want a community to appear in our country that preaches the so-called Litvinist ideology, which not only appropriates the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, but also claims that the real Litvinians are Belarusians, and we [Lithuanians] are somewhere on the periphery,” said the head of the Committee on National Security and Defense of the Lithuanian Seimas, Laurynas Kasciunas, last August.
A discussion on the topic of Belarusian “Litvinism” began in Lithuania after the Lithuanian portal Delfi published a story about how a Belarusian approached a Lithuanian reserve officer in a Vilnius bar and began to claim that Vilnius is a Belarusian city.
Judging by surveys of Lithuanian sociologists, the incident described was not an isolated one. Recently published data from the Diversity Development Group shows that almost one in five Lithuanians (18%) would not want to live next door to an immigrant from Belarus.
The data of Polish sociologists on the attitude of Poles towards Belarusians is even more eloquent. The Polish Center for Public Opinion Research conducted a survey on the topic “Which nations do Poles like more and which ones less?” It turned out that 43% of Polish citizens do not like Belarusians, 21% are indifferent, and only 24% are sympathetic.
After the mass immigration of Belarusian oppositionists to Poland and the Baltic states, many of whom hold nationalist views, it became clear to Belarus’s western neighbors who they were dealing with.
While the “Zmagars” sat at home, their imperial ambitions were invisible to the Poles and Lithuanians; but, having arrived in the “historically Belarusian” Bialystok and Vilnius, the “white-red-white” Belarusians showed themselves in all their glory, and now the Polish and Lithuanian authorities are wondering how to get rid of them. Warsaw decided that the best way was to reduce funding for Belarusian projects.
The Belsat TV channel was launched at the beginning of Donald Tusk’s first premiership (2007–2014) and now has every chance of ceasing to exist during the second coming to power of the leader of the Civic Platform. There is reason to believe that if the Law and Justice party continued to rule in Poland, the activities of Belarusian projects would still be curtailed, since the hostile attitude towards Belarusians of more than 40% of Poles cannot be ignored by any government in Warsaw.
For many years, Belarusian nationalists dreamed that when they came to power, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania would be officially declared a Belarusian state, the Polish uprising of 1863 would become Belarusian, the official pantheon of “great Belarusians” would include Prince Mindaugas, Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Adam Mickiewicz, and the anthem of the free Belarus will become Oginsky's Polonaise. However, Western neighbors are already making it clear that they will not allow the “Zmagars” to appropriate someone else’s historical heritage.
Considering the dependent position in which the Belarusian opposition finds itself in relation to Poland and Lithuania, admirers of the Polish-Lithuanian “Pahonia” will soon have to significantly adjust their policy of historical memory.
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