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[LB] As a result of a rocket strike on January 14, 28 private houses and one critical infrastructure object were damaged in the Kyiv region . There are no casualties. In Kyiv, as a result of a Russian attack, a fire broke out at a non-residential building in Holosiivskyi district.
This is stated in the summary from OVA as of this morning.
In the Chernihiv region, the Russians carried out two shellings at night. They fired from mortars and AGS. Without losses and destruction.
In the Sumy region yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 63 strikes on the border. The enemy shelled the Shalygin community with mortars. Khotyn community: the enemy fired mortar fire, and later the Russians also fired artillery. A 63-year-old man was wounded as a result of the shelling. Also, two private houses were completely destroyed, two more were damaged. Bilopolsk community: 25 enemy mines exploded on the border. The Russians hit the Esman community with mortars. At night and in the morning - no shelling.
Over the past day, the occupiers shelled the civilian infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia region, in the area of the settlements of Zaporizhzhia, Gulyaipole, Orihiv, Zaliznychne, Novoandriivka, Novodanilivka, Charivne, Mala Tokmachka, Biloghirya, Olgivske, Preobrazhenka, Malynivka, Shcherbaki, Poltavka, Temyrivka, Novoselivka, Stepove , Kamianske. 16 reports were received about the destruction of houses (apartments) of citizens and infrastructure objects as a result of shelling by the Russians.
Yesterday, the enemy launched a missile attack on a critical infrastructure facility in the Vinnytsia region. The impact caused ignition. There are no victims or injured.
In Dnipro, a rescue operation is underway at the site of a Russian rocket hitting a residential building. The number of dead exceeded 20, 73 were injured. Of them, 40 are hospitalized, four are in serious condition. Previously, 72 apartments in the building were destroyed, more than 230 were damaged. Firefighters are still putting out several local fires that occurred due to the impact. Dismantling of destroyed structures is ongoing.
The Russians opened fire three times in the Nikopol district. The shells hit three communities - Chervonogrihorivska, Marganetska and Nikopolska. No victims. In Marganetska hromada, the power line supplying the water supply pumping station was damaged. More than 60,000 subscribers were left without water. Emergency services are on site.
In the Kharkiv region yesterday morning, rocket strikes were recorded on critical infrastructure in Kharkiv and Chuguyiv district. Emergency blackouts were used. The main part of consumers in Kharkiv and the region was restored until 1 am on January 15. As of now, there are still point power outages.
In addition, during the day, the enemy continued shelling the border settlements of the region. In the Slobozhansk direction, areas of Veterinarne, Staritsa, Ogirtseve, Gatishche, Vovchansk, Budarki, Strelecha, Ternova, Chugunivka, Khatne and Topoli settlements were hit by mortar and artillery fire. In the Kupyansk direction, the areas of Dvorichna, Zapadne, Synkivka, Orlyanka, Kotlyarivka, Berestov and Krokhmalne settlements were shelled.
In the town of Vovchansk, Chuguyiv district, the building of the college's educational building was damaged. Also in Vovchansk, a direct hit to the building of the new boiler house, damaged windows and cladding of the walls of the adjacent buildings were recorded. There were no casualties.
In Lviv yesterday , the enemy launched two rocket attacks on the energy infrastructure facility. One rocket was shot down. There were no casualties or injuries.
In Ivano-Frankivsk yesterday, as a result of the enemy's rocket fire, two rockets hit a critical infrastructure object in the afternoon. Previously, there were no dead or injured. Units of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine went to the scene to contain the fire. The fire was extinguished. Also, during the alarm yesterday, two rockets were shot down by air defense forces on the territory of the region.
In the Luhansk region , units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the districts of Makiyivka and Bilogorivka. On the Kupyansk direction, the Russians shelled Novoselivske and Stelmakhivka. On the Lymanskyi direction, Makiivka, Ploshanka, Nevske, Kreminna, Dibrova and Chervonopivka came under the influence of enemy fire. One person was injured in the de-occupied village of Nevsky as a result of enemy shelling.
In the Donetsk region , the positions and outskirts of the Torets community were shelled from heavy weapons and small arms throughout the night. The situation is tense, but under control in the Ozoryanivka, Kurdyumivka, New York area. During the rocket attack on Kostiantynivka yesterday afternoon, the building of the KP "Kostiantynivsk tramway management" was destroyed. During the rocket attack on the village. Markov Kostyantynivska community's secondary school building and a private house were also damaged during the day.
Last day, there was massive shelling of Avdiyivka, four people were killed and three were wounded. In Soledar, village Rozdolovka and the village of Paraskoviivka - a difficult situation. Active hostilities continue. There is no communication, information about the injured civilians is currently being clarified. In one day in Donetsk region: seven dead, four wounded.
Yesterday, during a massive enemy missile strike , four cruise missiles were shot down by anti-aircraft defenses over the Odesa region . One of the missiles hit a critical infrastructure facility, causing damage. Without victims and victims.
In the Mykolaiv region, the enemy launched artillery strikes on the Kutsurub community yesterday evening. Hitting outside the settlement. There were no damages or injuries.
According to the information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the Kherson direction , the enemy continues shelling populated areas along the right bank of the Dnipro River. In particular, Antonivka and Kherson were shelled by rocket and barrel artillery. During the day, two people were wounded by shelling. Certain micro-districts of Kherson and 35 settlements of the region were temporarily disconnected from electricity supply - a consequence of another missile attack by the Russians. The National Police explosives officers removed 302 explosive items, the State Emergency Service defused 77 explosive items.
We will remind you that yesterday Russia carried out two waves of massive missile attack. The enemy fired aircraft missiles, sea-based missiles and C300 projectiles. 26 civilians were killed, 81 were wounded.
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[Korrespondent] 21:35 Anna Malyar said that the battles for Soledar continue, and "everything else is unverified information, unauthorized and without knowledge of the general picture of the front, because it is a state secret." She stressed that information is made public by authorized persons, taking into account not only the operational situation, but also the military plans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Only the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the Minister of Defense, the Commander-in-Chief, the Chief of the General Staff are in full control of the situation at the front. And civilians do not have any control at all, do not know these plans and therefore do not understand the context in which they present the fragments of information that have become known to them. What causes damage to our defense," the Deputy Minister of Defense emphasized.
21:26 Zelensky said in an evening video message that the battle for Soledar, Bakhmut, for the entire Donetsk and Luhansk regions continues "without respite, without stopping."
20:44 Tehran will receive Russian Su-35 fighter jets in the spring, the Iranian publication Tasnim writes, citing a member of the commission on national security and foreign policy of the parliament, Shahriar Heydari. In addition, according to him, Iran ordered a number of other military equipment from Russia, including air defense systems, missile systems and helicopters, most of which will be received in the near future.
20:28 The deficit of generation in the power system after the attack is "huge", said Yasno CEO Sergey Kovalenko. According to him, a number of thermal power plants do not work due to serious damage, and it is too early to predict the recovery time. "The problem is so serious that Ukrenergo has significantly limited the volume of consumption throughout Ukraine and in Kyiv in particular... The destruction is significant. All power engineers are working on restoration, but we need to be prepared for the fact that the shutdowns can be long," Kovalenko said.
19:31 Podolyak said that PMC Wagner lost more than 3/4 of its "prisoners". According to him, the company took 38,244 people from prisons and colonies to participate in the war in Ukraine. Of these, 29,543 were killed, wounded, captured or missing. That is, losses as of today have reached 77%.
19:09 Ukraine can count on an increase in the supply of heavy weapons from Western countries in the near future, Stoltenberg said in an interview with Handelsblatt: "The recent promises to provide heavy military equipment are important, and I expect more in the near future ... We are in a decisive phase of the war so it's important that we provide Ukraine with the weapons it needs to win."
18:26 The head of the Kherson OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich, said that the enemy fired at the rehabilitation center for children with disabilities, as well as the area next to the student hostel. The Russians fired on private and apartment buildings and attacked a critical infrastructure facility. So far, seven people are known to have been injured, one of them in serious condition.
18:12 In Dnipro, the death toll has risen to 29 people, 73 injured , 30 of them in the hospital, 12 in serious condition, said the head of the OVA Valentin Reznichenko. The search operation has been going on for more than a day. Firefighters finally put out the fire, which started in the house from a rocket attack. About half of the broken structures have already been dismantled. In total, 39 residents of the house were rescued from the rubble, the fate of more than 40 is unknown.
18:09 The Russians fired at the premises in Kherson where the representatives of the Red Cross work. A fire broke out due to the shelling, there is no information about the victims. The President's Office said the enemy knew where he was striking.
17:24 Zelensky introduced another package of sanctions against Russian cultural figures , journalists and bloggers. There are 198 people on the list, including seven citizens of Ukraine.
16:46 In the Kremensk direction, Russians lose dozens of people and several pieces of equipment every day, said the head of the Luhansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai. In Belogorovka, according to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repel all attempts of enemy attacks - there is no threat of breaking through the defense there.
15:59 Tbilisi will not transfer weapons to Kiev, as it is afraid of becoming a party to the conflict, Georgian Deputy Prime Minister Thea Tsulukiani said: "The Georgian authorities will not allow the Georgian state to be involved in a military confrontation, respectively, of course, we will not be able to provide assistance military type of one of the sides of the confrontation. Moreover, as far as I know, we are talking about the transfer of such weapons that we bought."
15:33 The situation with power cuts will not improve after the end of the heating season, Dmitry Sakharuk, Executive Director of DTEK, said: “On the one hand, there will be a decrease in consumption, because it will be warmer, but on the other, planned repairs will begin, which are not being carried out now. And this means that, in principle, the volume of generation in Ukraine will not increase.”
15:27 The British Ministry of Defense denied reports of plans to supply Kiev with Apache combat helicopters. The Mirror previously reported this, but then removed the article.
15:22 In Dnipro, the death toll has risen to 25, including one child. 73 people were injured, including 13 children. 43 people are wanted , Zelensky said. 39 people were rescued, including six children. Search and rescue operations and the dismantling of dangerous structural elements are ongoing around the clock.
14:41 In the Tauride direction, the enemy is preparing to repel the Ukrainian offensive with the subsequent transition to a counteroffensive, Yevgeny Yerin, spokesman for the Defense Forces of the Tauride direction, said. According to him, in the Zaporozhye region there is a certain accumulation of enemy forces, but so far it cannot be said that he is preparing for a massive offensive.
14:15 There is a threat of S-300 strikes on Kiev, Yuriy Ignat, spokesman for the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said: "These missiles fly from a great distance and hit. The greater the range, the greater the inaccuracy. They applied this principle in Kiev ... The speed of the rocket S-400 - over 4,000 km/h, S-300 - over 3,000 km/h. These missiles were fired at - S-400 or S-300 (certain modifications). It was 1-2 minutes from launch to explosions. "
13:52 In the Kherson region, near Velyka Aleksandrovka, two people who were checking their fields were blown up by a Russian mine. Both died on the spot, said the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich.
13:19 The speaker of the Air Force, Yuri Ignat, said that reports of downed X-22 missiles that appeared in the past were erroneous. This is how he reacted to reproaches that Ukrainian air defense could have shot down a missile in the Dnieper. "I'll explain to make it clear. There were several such publications. Let's say, soldiers found fragments of Kh-22 in the field (and sometimes not even Kh-22, but fragments of another missile), they report upstairs: we shot down Kh-22! Everyone wants to race to report about it first on their resources. Without checking, without coordinating, and so on. The main thing is to be the first," Ignat said.
According to him, due to such haste, several false reports about downed Kh-22 and even S-300 missiles had previously entered the network through official sources. Ignat added that he had to constantly deal with such cases: "The information provided on official resources is generally true, but there are several untrue publications with "downed" X-22s, this is a fact."
The Air Force says Ukraine currently lacks the ability to shoot down Kh-22s, one of which hit an apartment building in Dnipro on January 14.
13:01 Putin said that "the dynamics of the special operation is positive, everything is developing within the framework of the plan of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff."
12:07 As of 11:30 am, 21 people died in Dnipro, including one child; 71 people were injured, including 13 children; 39 people were rescued, including six children, the President's Office reported. According to the GU NP, 40 people are wanted. Rescue and search operations are ongoing, fire fighting is also ongoing. About 3780 tons of destroyed structures and 39 damaged cars were removed.
11:44 PMC Wagner lost a quarter of its mercenaries in the battles near Bakhmut, writes the Financial Times, citing the estimates of the American authorities. In particular, during the fighting in the Soledar-Bakhmut sector, the PMC lost 4,000 mercenaries dead and 10,000 wounded. Washington estimates that the company employs 50,000 people.
11:40 The Russians have dealt another blow to the residential quarter of Kherson: according to preliminary information, two people were injured, said the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich.
11:18 During the 12th missile attack on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine, the enemy tried to aim at the blocks of thermal power plants. Due to damage to equipment, they stopped or reduced electricity generation, and the deficit in the energy system increased, Ukrenergo reported. This made it necessary to reduce consumption limits in proportion to all regions. Limits are valid throughout the day, if they are exceeded, emergency shutdowns will be applied. For consumers, the duration of outages may increase.
10:35 On combat duty, Russia retains naval carriers with an unused stock of Caliber, therefore, the threat of a second strike on Ukraine remains in the near future, Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden, said: "Yesterday we saw that they equipped five rocket carriers, including one underwater. "And they used Kalibr-type missiles during a massive attack. If yesterday there was a reserve of 36 missiles in the Black Sea, then about half of them were used during the attack, and these missile carriers remain on combat duty ... We must understand that they can still be used."
10:11 There are already 21 dead in Dnipro, one of them is a child. 73 people were injured, including 14 children. 38 people were rescued, including six children. 35 people are wanted, rescuers continue to work, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional Council Nikolai Lukashuk.
09:54 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense warned that a comprehensive and large-scale stuffing of fake news by Russia is expected in the near future, aimed at undermining confidence in Ukraine from Western partners. In particular, the Russian special services plan to address Ukrainian journalists on behalf of popular Western publications with proposals to provide information on the state of the Ukrainian economy, the political situation in the state and the activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Intelligence urges the journalistic community to carefully check the sources from which proposals for cooperation come.
09:37 In the Kherson region over the past day, due to Russian shelling, two people were injured, the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich, said.
09:28 According to the results of monitoring of open sources of information in Ukraine, 1647 Russian officers were officially killed, Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, journalist Anatoly Shtefan said. Among them:
generals - 10;
colonels - 50;
lieutenant colonels - 116;
majors - 228;
captains - 320;
senior lieutenants - 532;
lieutenants - 276;
rank not identified - 115.
09:24 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, seven civilians were killed - four in Avdeevka, one each in Staraya Nikolaevka, Paraskoveevka and Kurakhovka. Four more people were injured in the region, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
09:18 The British government announced that in addition to 14 Challenger 2 tanks, they plan to transfer another 30 AS-90 self-propelled guns, additional details will be announced on Monday, January 16th. The Ukrainian military will begin training on the management of Challenger 2 tanks in the coming days.
09:11 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that Prigozhin, showing the actions of mercenaries in Soledar, advertises Wagner PMC and tries to denigrate Russian troops. In particular, he published a video in which he showed the commander of the Wagner group, who allegedly led the capture of Soledar, and praised Wagner's capabilities compared to the usual Russian military. Thus, Prigozhin, in particular, is trying to improve his political status. Meanwhile, Putin is trying to undermine Prigozhin's efforts to raise his profile in Russia, ISW analysts say.
08:42 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy as of the morning of January 15th.
personnel - about 115,290 (+630) people liquidated,
tanks - 3106 (+2),
armored combat vehicles - 6183 (+10),
artillery systems - 2094 (+4),
MLRS - 437 (+0),
air defense systems - 219 (+0),
aircraft - 286 (+0),
helicopters - 276 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1872 (+5),
cruise missiles - 749 (+26),
ships/boats - 17 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 4846 (+0),
special equipment - 187 (+1).
08:31 Over the past day, the enemy launched three air and 57 missile strikes, made 69 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems, in particular, on civilian infrastructure. The Russians used S-300/S-400 anti-aircraft guided missiles to launch rocket attacks on the capital and other settlements of Ukraine. They also carried out 41 launches of air and sea-based cruise missiles and guided aircraft missiles, which are high-precision weapons. 26 missiles were shot down, the General Staff said in the morning report .
The enemy is concentrating his main efforts on offensive operations in the Bakhmut direction. It is also conducting an offensive in the Limansky, Avdeevsky and Novopavlovsky directions, and in the Kupyansky is trying to improve the tactical situation.
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Makeevka and Belogorivka in the Lugansk region and Verkhnekamenskoe, Disputed, Belogorivka, Sol, Soledar, Bakhmut, Klescheevka, Novobakhmutovka, Krasnogorovka, Vodiane, Mayorsk and Maryinka in the Donetsk region.
According to the General Staff, in one of the tank battalions of the 26th tank regiment of the invaders, participating in the hostilities in the Kupyansk direction, as of January 12, only ten T-80BV tanks remained in good condition - the rest were either destroyed or disabled. Of the personnel in the battalion, about 30 military remained.
07:28 The death toll as a result of a strike on a residential building in the Dnieper has increased to 18 people, wounded - up to 73 , more than 40 of them in hospitals, four in intensive care. The rescue operation continues, the fate of more than 40 people remains unknown, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
According to preliminary information, 72 apartments were destroyed as a result of the impact, more than 230 were damaged. Firefighters are still extinguishing several fires.
06:09 Britain intends to transfer to Ukraine not only Challenger 2 tanks, but also Apache AH64 E attack helicopters, Mirror writes, citing a high-ranking source in the defense sector. The transfer of helicopters is planned after Ukraine receives Challenger 2 tanks.
01:12 An X-22 cruise missile hit a high-rise building in Dnipro, which cannot be shot down , the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said. On Saturday, January 14, the Russians fired five Kh-22 cruise missiles from five long-range Tu-22m3 bombers into Ukraine. The launches were carried out from the Kursk region and from the Sea of Azov. One of these rockets, launched from the Kursk region at about 15.30, hit a high-rise building in the city of Dnipro on the street. Embankment of Victory.
Radar facilities found the approximate launch site, altitude, flight speed. There is no doubt that it was the Kh-22 missile, no, the command noted. "The Armed Forces of Ukraine do not have fire weapons capable of shooting down this type of missiles. Since the beginning of Russia's military aggression, more than 210 missiles of this type have been fired on the territory of Ukraine. Not a single one has been shot down by air defense means. The mass of the Kh-22 warhead is about 950 kg The maximum range is up to 600 km. When used from long distances, the deviation from the target can be hundreds of meters," the command of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine explained.
Only anti-aircraft missile systems, which in the future can be provided to Ukraine by Western partners (we are talking about such systems as the Patriot PAC-3 or SAMP-T), are capable of intercepting these air targets, representatives of the Armed Forces added.
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[RIA] What is happening in the world, that is, in the world as a whole, and what will happen next? Here, the clearest answers, of course, are given by astrologers, not forgetting to recall that everyone has predicted for a long time: where will you go from the Age of Aquarius. But there are other people who offer their versions of the general diagnosis to the world and humanity, people who are inclined to see this world not even from a bird's eye view, but from the level of the stratosphere.
And one such person once again reminds us : do you still think that you live in the age of globalization? Yes, for many years now, everything has been the other way around - deglobalization is taking place, and something needs to be done about it.
We are talking about the Indian, the former head of the Reserve Bank of the country, Raghuram Rajan. He has been promoting his idea for a long time, and once again he reminded us: since 2008, the share of exports of goods and services in the formation of world GDP has gone down. And back in 2007, the curve of foreign investment broke - then 5.3 percent of global GDP was invested outside their economies, then less and less, and in 2020 - only 1.3 percent.
He is echoed by a multinational chorus about who is to blame and what to do. But for the time being, for the beginning, we note: the music did not play for long. It was only in the 90s that they explained to us that the world has forever become one, saturated everywhere with the same goods and universal ideas (mandatory for everyone), there are no longer any borders, and this is excellent, and this is forever, if you please obey. But it turns out that this holiday lasted only ten or fifteen years?
The most interesting thing in the ongoing disputes, of course, is who is to blame for what is happening, that is, who made the wrong globalization, which not everyone liked. And here there are unexpected opinions, for example , this one: it was not so global, this globalization. If we talk only about the economy, then something else happened: the strengthening of economic integration within large regions. But if you look at how goods and investments move between regions, then everything is not so cheerful.
And it turns out to be an anomaly, you won’t believe, the USA , which has fallen out of regional integration within the Americas. The states, if you look at the statistics, showed little interest in their neighbors, and developed ties with someone more distant, and sometimes more for ideological reasons. True, the powerful merger of the American and Chinese economies turned out to be an exception, but America did not like this much, and the crazy idea of \u200b\u200bbreaking this alliance and creating two separate world economies - ideologically correct and incorrect (Chinese) - began to play with all colors. But real globalization will eventually build up anyway (albeit in competition between two economic poles instead of domination by one), and this is good.
This is strongly reminiscent of the article that has already appeared in Russian translation by two doves of the world from the United States - Monica Toft and Sidita Kushi, who, in fact, are promoting a book they wrote together under the beautiful title "We perish by the sword." The point is that America is carried away by military interventions around the world, which undermines its prestige and position in the family of nations, and at the same time its own economy, not to mention the world economy. And the conclusion from all this is again "Chinese": I would like to believe that now that there are two superpowers in the world again, Washington will return to the almost lost skills of diplomacy, instead of terrorizing everyone. He will return simply because he will learn again to be afraid of a serious collision - already with Beijing.
And one more publication during this discussion: it is about the results of 2022, when at several international meetings ( G20 in Indonesia and others) the world told the West: there must be some limits to confrontation. Let's urgently end this deglobalization of yours and return to relative normality.
It's all about sanctions. That is, about artificially imposed rules of trade and everything else under whatever pretexts you like, but after all, sanctions are reduced to the same deglobalization.
What happens together? The story with the "end of history" according to Francis Fukuyama: it turns out that it did not so much end as it went the wrong way the West wanted.
And here we must proudly say that our experts also took part in this conversation, and this happened quite a long time ago: we are talking about the material from the spring of 2021 by Andrey Kortunov, CEO of the Russian International Affairs Council . And there appear simple and understandable thoughts.
In particular, if you go through the subheadings, the process of rapprochement of economies, countries and peoples will go on without a single hegemon or leader who will drag this process along. That is, globalization awaits us not under pressure from above, but in the form of the development of horizontal ties. Further, this process will not have a center and periphery, its goal will be not so much the growth of global GDP, but the sustainable development of everyone and everyone - justice.
Not only states will participate here, but also private corporations, industry interests and many other non-state players. The axis of tension will not be "East-West", but rather "North-South", that is, countries that are too developed and too poor.
Here we can add that from the very beginning the idea of globalization smelled of ideological theft. It was just a beautiful word, invented at that very moment of the "end of history", in the 90s, to impress on all of us the inevitability of what is happening and the senselessness of resistance.
But after all, no fundamentally new processes began precisely in the 90s. Mankind, due to unhealthy curiosity and healthy adventurism, has always integrated tirelessly. How about the era of the Great Migration of Nations on the Eurasian continent, which mixed cultures and technologies in the most radical way? How about the Great Silk Road across Eurasia , that is, the centuries-old logistical trade link between the two great empires of that time - Roman and Chinese?
And there was also the era of Spanish galleons crossing the Pacific Ocean from Acapulco to Manilaand other smaller trade routes. Or (if we are only talking about the exchange of ideas) you can long and joyfully figure out what ancient religions the current ones have developed from, which, for example, Isis reminds us of with the baby Horus on her knees.
And what happened in the 90s is a typical information phantom, such a thing when you see the facts, but do not draw obvious conclusions from them, because someone tried to draw the conclusions for you. But in fact, at first the West tried to secure for itself the role of a dictating rule in the long, centuries-old process of communication between peoples - that is, to extend the era of its colonial conquest of the world by new means. Then it turned out that the same West was upset by the result and tried to stop the centuries-old process. But then they began to explain to him: guys, give it up.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:11 Seven rockets of the HIMARS and Vilkha multiple launch rocket systems were intercepted in the area of the city of Berdyansk, Zaporozhye region and the settlement of Novyi Svet, Donetsk People's Republic. 22:19 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 372 aircraft, 200 helicopters, 2,880 unmanned aerial vehicles, 400 anti-aircraft missile systems, 7,511 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 982 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,828 field artillery pieces and mortars have been destroyed, as well as 8,040 units of special military vehicles.
21:33 Frontline summary for January 15
The front is moving beyond Soledar. According to reports from the field, the industrial zone near Rudnik-7 on the western outskirts of Soledar has come under the control of Wagner PMC, and battles are underway for the railway station Sol, Razdolovka and Blagodatnoye. It is planned to cover the Red Mountain from the north and south.
Near Artemovsk is also active. The assault on Kleshcheevka continues, although the Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding the line for now. Ours are attacking the southern and northern suburbs of Bakhmut, trying to take control of the main roads leading into the city. A huge number of personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is concentrated in the city and the outskirts.
Against this background, the opinion of American analysts sounds rather strange, who write in the Washington Post that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are considering the possibility of retreat from Artemovsk. This is motivated by preparations for a counteroffensive on another sector of the front, which requires the preservation of weapons, ammunition and experienced fighters. Based on the information from under Artemovsk, this is not at all like the truth.
Ukraine continued to strike at civilians. Three MLRS rockets fired at Shakhtyorsk in the rear of the DPR. Under the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Berdyansk, as well as Shebekino, Belgorod Region, the market was damaged. An example of courage was shown by a guard who covered one of the grenades dropped by a Ukrainian UAV on one of the largest power substations in Bryansk. The man is in intensive care, the city was left with electricity. Hope he gets better.
As for yesterday's missile strike by the RF Armed Forces, it was carried out, among other things, against Ukraine's military command and control system. According to our Defense Ministry, all assigned objects were hit. In Konstantinovka occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR, an important logistics center for the Donbass grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one of these military facilities was destroyed.
I also note that this time the blows were delivered to generating capacities. For example, the turbine hall of the Burshtynskaya TPP in the Ivano-Frankivsk region was hit, at least three out of 12 generators of the station were destroyed. Before that, ours hit the thermal power plant only once - at the Dnieper thermal power plant in Zaporozhye.
The targets of all previous attacks were transformers. Burshtynskaya TPP helped Ukraine maintain a balance in the energy system of the central and western regions of the country by regulating the power of the turbines depending on changes in consumption. The failure of one of the largest thermal power plants should have a significant impact on the energy supply of Transcarpathia and neighboring regions. Also among the targets of yesterday's missile attack were 750 kV substations and CHP shops. Now the attacks on Ukraine's critical infrastructure are on a larger scale.
On providing assistance to Ukraine. The UK is ready to transfer about 30 AS90 self-propelled howitzers (this is about a third of all available). There is news that the British will provide up to four Apache military helicopters after the transfer of Challenger-2 tanks.
The high accuracy of their weapons - Hellfire missiles - is noted. True, the British Ministry of Defense stated that the decision to transfer Apache has not yet been made. I hope the helicopters will not be provided, because, no matter how paradoxical it may sound, this will radically change the situation at the front.
The story of the German Leopard tanks is developing. One option for Germany is to provide tanks destined for Slovakia and the Czech Republic. At the same time, the German concern Rheinmetall, one of the manufacturers of Leopard-2, which has 22 Leopard-2 and 88 Leopard tanks, said that it takes about a year to prepare them for shipment to Ukraine. To be honest, I don’t quite understand what exactly needs to be done with supposedly existing tanks for so long, but in any case, Germany will have to participate in a tank alliance for Kyiv. And the format will become clear at an early meeting at the Rammstein base.
While Europe is counting tanks, the New York Times has counted all the weapons and summed up that the stocks of weapons in Europe are running out. The US still has resources, but they are also running out of weapons. However, Europe is especially vulnerable, and it is completely dependent on the US. Arms orders will increase, budgets will rise, Europe, having given all its weapons to Ukraine, will also probably place orders with the American military-industrial complex. Journalists emphasize that the West is exhausted by the war of attrition waged by Russia. I would add that the West is different from the West, and the US is only in the black so far.
19:53 Formidable 152mm 2S3 "Acacias": calculations of self-propelled artillery installations destroy the enemy -video
Artillerymen of the Southern Military District, supporting the actions of motorized rifle units, continue to strike at enemy fortifications, accumulations of manpower and columns of military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, delivering reinforcements and ammunition.
When performing fire missions, the artillerymen interact with the crews of unmanned aerial vehicles, which carry out reconnaissance of enemy positions and correct the accuracy of the fire of combat vehicles.
“Today we carried out the task of suppressing and destroying enemy manpower and firepower. Up to 11 km to the north, a congestion of personnel and armored vehicles was revealed. They immediately handed over the coordinates, the calculation was aimed, fired the first shot, and made corrections. In general, the shooting turned out to be effective, up to five servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and one unit of armored vehicles were destroyed, ”the serviceman with the call sign “Forester” explained.
18:42 Exclusive RT from Soledar -video
“The city is our element. It's useless to compete with us here, ”- an employee of the PMC Wagner.
During the assault on the fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the residential areas of Soledar, the infantry squads and platoons of the Wagner Group skillfully implemented the effect of operational surprise. The work was carried out under the cover of cannon and rocket artillery units of the RF Armed Forces.
The Wagnerites divided into three detachments and began to storm the city from the left and right flanks, creating a threat of encirclement. Part of the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to withdraw, and the Ukrainian militants who remained in the city were deprived of communications and ammunition.
Dense shelling and active offensive operations demoralized the enemy. The Armed Forces of Ukraine had no choice but to retreat to the areas of salt mines and the village of Blagodatnoye.
18:05 Ukrainian tank T-72M1 forever Priunil.
Footage with a Ukrainian tank unscrewed in the village of Stavki in the DPR.
18:01 A dugout with anti-tank missiles stored in it was destroyed in the Tokmak region -video
In the course of checking the operational information received, police officers, together with employees of the State Security Service, the VOG and the National Guard in the Tokmak district, in the vicinity of the village of Dolina, in a forest belt, discovered a hidden dugout in which five anti-tank guided missiles were stored, armed with the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The engineering and sapper group, the discovered objects and the dugout were destroyed on the spot, by demolition.
17:04 Another American-made International M1224 MaxxPro Ukrainian armored car destroyed in the Artemovsk (Bakhmut) area -video
16:41Ukrainians continue to suffer heavy losses in the dead and wounded in the Bakhmut (Artemovsky) sector -video
16:33 In the Odessa region, the distribution of summons for conscription for military service continues -video
Summons are handed to Ukrainians anywhere - in public transport or just on the street.
16:08 RF Armed Forces are constantly working on Ukrainian positions, not letting them raise their heads -video
15:49 In the east of Ukraine announced air alert.
15:47 After the final fall of the city's defenses, the VSE soldiers left the residential areas and were moved to its surroundings. As a result of the cleansing, employees of the PMC "Wagner" seized various anti-tank weapons and an impressive amount of Western-made small arms for close infantry combat -video
Garage arrays and residential buildings were turned into enemy locations. This is evidenced by the abandoned Swedish AT-4 HEAT anti-tank grenade launchers. With their help, the militants intended to hold back the onslaught of Wagner tank platoons. Not without "exotics": the formations of Ukrainian nationalists were given NATO 7.62mm M62 cartridges with tracer bullets from the Vietnam War.
Among other things, fast-loading magazines and 40-mm fragmentation shells produced in Bulgaria for RLV-HEF underbarrel grenade launchers were found.
Tactical professionalism and high endurance of the Wagner PMC assault groups did not allow the enemy to effectively use these ammunition.
15:37Ukrainians continue to leave their positions by all available means, realizing that death has crept up to them very close -video
15:01 American artillery system M777 destroyed in the area of the settlement of Shlyakhovoe, Kherson region - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
14:47 “Despite all the professionalism of the enemy, we are superior to them in all respects. We have no equal in the city” — PMC “Wagner” fighters told about how the assault took place —video
Stormtroopers came from Popasna. The enemy put up serious resistance, but could not resist our onslaught and abandoned their positions. The successful advance of the assault groups was ensured by high-quality artillery support.
14:03 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress holding special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (15.01.2023)
On January 14, 2023, a missile attack was carried out on the military command and control system of Ukraine and related energy facilities. All assigned objects are hit. The target has been reached.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
In the Kupyansk direction, units of the 14th and 92nd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated by air strikes and artillery from the Western Military District in the areas of the settlements of Dvurechnoe, Sinkovka, Kharkiv Region, and Novoselovskoe, Luhansk People's Republic.
As a result of fire damage and decisive actions of units of the Western Military District in this direction, up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored combat vehicle and two vehicles were destroyed per day.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, units of the 66th, 92nd mechanized and 95th air assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Makeevka, Stelmahovka and Kuzmino Lugansk People's Republic.
In addition, artillery strikes and the actions of units of the Airborne Forces repulsed the attack of the assault groups of the 71st Jaeger Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic.
As a result of the defeat, the enemy was driven back to their original positions. The total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this direction amounted to more than 115 military personnel, three armored combat vehicles and three pickup trucks.
In the Donetsk direction, assault detachments, in cooperation with units of the Airborne Forces, with the support of army aviation, missile troops and artillery of the Southern Military District, developed success in the direction of the northern outskirts of the city of Artemovsk of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Sol railway station. During the fighting, more than 80 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, three armored combat vehicles and three cars were destroyed in a day.
In the South-Donetsk direction, artillery and motorized rifle units of the Eastern Military District, as well as the marines of the Pacific Fleet, inflicted fire damage on accumulations of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Vladimirovka and Vuhledar of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Also, a sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed in the area of the settlement Sladkoe. The total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day amounted to 50 servicemen, three pickup trucks and a car.
Operational-tactical aviation, missile troops and artillery of groups of troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the area of the settlement of Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic hit an ammunition depot and a repair base for multiple launch rocket systems.
Also during the day, 103 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, manpower and military equipment in 123 districts were hit at firing positions. A launcher of the Ukrainian Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system was destroyed in the area of the settlement of Novoselivka, Zaporozhye region.
In the course of a counterbattery fight, the following were destroyed in a day:
An M777 artillery system manufactured by the United States in the area of the settlement of Shlyakhovoe, Kherson region;
Howitzer 152mm D-20 near the village of Krasny Liman of the Donetsk People's Republic;
self-propelled howitzer 152mm 2S3 "Acacia" in the area of the settlement Umanskoe of the Donetsk People's Republic;
two 152mm Msta-B howitzers in the areas of the settlements of Georgievka and Skudnoe of the Donetsk People's Republic;
two self-propelled howitzers 122mm "Gvozdika" in the areas of the settlements of Gulyaipole, Zaporozhye region and Shevchenko, Donetsk People's Republic;
122mm D-30 howitzer near the village of Serebryanka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
In addition, in the area of the settlement of Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, a US-made AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery radar was destroyed.
Air defense systems destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Nikolskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic and Krasnorechenskoye in the Luhansk People's Republic.
In addition, eight shells of HIMARS and Uragan multiple launch rocket systems were intercepted in the areas of the settlements of Kremennaya, Lisichansk, Lugansk People's Republic, Vasilievka, Podgornoe and Novomikhailovka, Zaporizhzhia region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 372 aircraft, 200 helicopters, 2,882 unmanned aerial vehicles, 401 anti-aircraft missile systems, 7,525 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 982 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,836 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 8,052 units of special military vehicles.
14:01 Wagner's "Salt Symphony": exclusive footage of crushing defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Soledar
Assault groups of PMC "Wagner" inflicted a crushing defeat on the Ukrainian army in Soledar and continue to advance further.
On the surface, the city has already been cleared, but the enemy can remain in the numerous salt mines that gave Soledar its name, so the cleansing underground continues.
14:00 Dynamics of the special operation positive, everything is developing within the framework of the plan of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff, Putin said in an interview with Zarubin in the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" on "Russia-1".
13:58 Russian forces in the Donetsk directiondevelopedsuccess in the direction of the northern outskirts of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) and the Sol railway station, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
13:56 The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that on January 14 there was inflicted missile attack on the military command and control system of Ukraine, all designated objects were hit, the goal of the strike was achieved.
12:38 In Odessa and Kharkov today they are again massively distributing an agenda. According to reports in local publics, this happens in markets, railway stations, bus stops, shops and malls.
12:26 In Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk regions of Ukraine announced air alert.
10:45 Police officers revealed a cache of ammunition in Dniprorudny, Zaporozhye region -video
In the garage of one of the local garage cooperatives, weapons, Molotov cocktails, NATO uniforms and Ukrainian symbols were stored.
The garage belonged to an ATO participant who is currently serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction, according to the Telegram channel of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Zaporozhye region.
09:26Ukrainians continue to suffer heavy losses in killed and wounded along the entire front line -video
Warriors ukroreikh came under heavy artillery fire from Russian troops, as a result, two two hundredth and one three hundredth.
09:23 Russian artillery is working on Ukrainian positions and locations in a constant mode day and night -video
08:07 Urgent statement of Interdepartmental Coordinating Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
The Security Service of Ukraine is preparing for a large-scale provocation in the coming days to discredit Russia's actions in the framework of the "grain deal" and accusations of creating a "food shortage" in Ukraine.
In the village of Karaichnoye, Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian special service is mining a granary, after blowing it up, the Russian Federation will be accused of allegedly “deliberately destroying grain reserves in Ukraine”, “provoking famine” and “failing”, thus, the “grain deal”. In the Western media, the incident will be presented as "another atrocity of the Russian troops", requiring a "tough response from the world community."
To prepare the sabotage in the city of Volchansk, Kharkiv region, a group of Ukrainian mine-explosive specialists and SBU officers, totaling up to 30 people, arrived.
The owner of the granary is a freelance officer of the Security Service of Ukraine V.Uvarov. We also know the initial data on the head of the group A. Tkachuk and all its other members, as well as their current location - in the military registration and enlistment office of the city of Volchansk at the address Dukhovnaya st., 29.
Against the background of military failures of the Ukrainian army and on the eve of the meeting of NATO defense ministers in Ramstein (Germany) on January 20 of this year. By such high-profile provocations, the Kyiv authorities are trying to increase pressure on public opinion in Western countries in order to achieve new large-scale deliveries of modern weapons and military equipment for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:18 In the Donetsk direction, assault detachments, in cooperation with units of the Airborne Forces, with the support of army aviation, missile troops and artillery of the Southern Military District, developed success in the direction of the settlement of Sol of the Donetsk People's Republic. More than 70 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, five armored combat vehicles and four vehicles were destroyed during the day. 22:35 Russian forces have developed success in the direction of the northern outskirts of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), the Ukrainian military has lost more than 80 people.
22:15 On the Kupyansk and Krasnolimansk directions, Ukrainian forces lost about 165 people in a day, up to 50 in the South Donetsk.
21:12 The current situation in the Bakhmut direction
North of Bakhmut
Units of PMC "Wagner" continue to storm the village of Sol, already controlling most of the territory of the settlement.
In parallel with this, the musicians are conducting active offensive operations towards the settlements of Razdolovka, Krasnopolye, Krasnaya Gora. The Wagnerites have already entered the last one from the north.
Bahmut
Units of PMC "Wagner" are fierce urban battles in four directions:
in the area of Labor Reserves Street (northwest),
near Patrice Lumumba Street (East),
in the area of Fedor Maksimenko Street (southeast),
in the area of Maly Troitsky Lane (south).
At the moment, the main task of the musicians directly in Bakhmut is not to advance deep into the city as such, but to destroy as much enemy manpower and equipment as possible.
South of Bakhmut
PMC "Wagner" are fighting for Kleshcheevka (Kleshchievka), advancing simultaneously from several directions. Attack aircraft, artillery and aviation of the Orchestra are working.
Kleshcheevka is one of the strategically important suburbs, the liberation of which will allow the Wagnerites to get a fifth point of entry into Bakhmut - from the southwest.
20:41 Ukrainian militants attacked the village of Zavitne Bazhannya in the Velikonovoselkovsky district of the DPR, a man was wounded. Delivered to the Republican Traumatological Center.
19:42Ukrainians, having fired five shells of 155mm caliber from Kurakhovo, fired at Petrovsky district at 18:55.
18:13 A civilian was injured as a result of the shelling of Staromayorsk by Ukrainian troops,informsrepresentation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
17:21 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC, on January 15, information was received about victims among civilians in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Cherished Desire (included in the area of responsibility of the administration of Donetsk):
- on the street. Pervomaiskaya, 7, a man born in 1960 was wounded.
n.p. Staromayorskoye: (included in the area of responsibility of the administration of Donetsk):
- on the street. Sovetskaya, 15 wounded man born in 1991
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
15:06 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for January 15, received additional information on damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka:
Central city area:
— fixed damage to the ambulance station on the street. Rudakova;
- fixed damage to the gas station on Lenin Ave.;
- st. Transportnaya, 20 - a private residential building.
Shirokaya Balka village:
- st. Dam, 146 - a private residential building.
n.p. Shakhtersk:
- damage to the infrastructure of the Postnikovo railway station was recorded.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
14:03 Russian Armed Forces developed success in the direction of the northern outskirts of Artemovsk and the Sol railway station in the Donetsk direction - Russian Defense Ministry
More than 80 Ukrainian militants, two tanks, three combat armored vehicles and three vehicles were destroyed, the ministry said.
13:52 Ukrainian troops at 9.55 (coincides with Moscow time) fired three shells of "NATO" caliber 155mm at Kremennaya, the LPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
13:14 Ukrainian troops at 11.30 fired five more NATO-caliber shells of 155mm in a number of districts of Donetsk, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reports.
13:05 Surgical department of Horlivka hospital No. 2 damaged by shelling
In addition, boiler house No. 113 on Rudakova Street was damaged. On Lenin Avenue, one of the ammunition hit an apartment building, and a car was also damaged. Another shell hit a private house in Tekhnichesky Lane, where the gas pipeline was also damaged.
11:49 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for January 15, information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka (Central city district):
- damage to the building of the Surgical building of the City Hospital No. 2 was recorded;
- damage was recorded to the building of boiler house No. 113 on the street. Rudakova;
- Lenin Ave., 23 - a direct hit in an apartment building; the car was also damaged;
- per. Technical, 3 - a direct hit in a private residential building; the gas pipeline was also damaged;
on st. International damaged power transmission line 35 kV.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
11:00 Summary of the LPR Representation in the JCCC for the past day, January 14
From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, two artillery attacks were recorded on the settlement. Tarasovka and Rubezhnoye using MLRS HIMARS (5 missiles).
10:18 The shelling of Donetsk resumed. And from n.p. Georgievka five rounds of 155mm caliber were fired at Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts.
10:07 Frontline summary for the morning of 01/15/2023
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Ukrainian army launched a missile attack on Berdyansk. (Fig. 1)
On the Donetsk front, ground battles continue in the city of Marinka. Russian troops attack. They also carried out offensive operations against the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Krasnogorovka. Traditional attacks in the direction of Nevelskoye, Pervomaisky, Vodyanoy and from Experienced. Artillery hit the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdiivka. Also an attempt to advance towards Kamenka. (Fig. 2)
To the south of Bakhmut, PMC "Wagner" conducted assault operations in the area of Kleshcheevka. The Ukrainian army holds the defense in this area. Also, the "orchestras" are trying to advance on the eastern outskirts of Bakhmut itself. To the north they attack in the Paraskoveevka area. They are also storming the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which are trying to hold on to the western outskirts of Soledar. Russian troops are advancing on Razdolovka. They also attacked the controversial again. (Fig. 3)
In the Luhansk direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation tried to advance in the Krasnopopovka area. To the north, artillery hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Dvurechny. (Fig. 4)
08:49 Summary on the morning of January 15, 2023
The Russian Armed Forces yesterday delivered massive missile strikes against the enemy's critical infrastructure. More than 80 missiles were used. They note that they began to hit the machine rooms of Ukrainian thermal power plants (previously they tried to destroy only transformers). The blows fell on Kharkov, Odessa, Lvov, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnitsa, Nikolaev and Dnepropetrovsk.
In Dnepropetrovsk, due to the work of the enemy's air defense, a residential building was destroyed, while the enemy resources tried to use the newsbreak to discredit the Russian Armed Forces. In addition, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moldova announced the discovery by the border guards of rocket fragments on its territory.
On the Svatovo-Kremennaya sector, our aviation and artillery worked on enemy positions. Several enemy DRGs were destroyed.
In the Ugledar direction, the destruction of enemy forces by artillery is also underway.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to strike at the Klintsovsky district of the Bryansk region. Our air defense system shot down the Tochka-U missile
In the LPR - two attacks on the settlement Tarasovka and Rubezhnoye using MLRS HIMARS (5 missiles).
A total of 57 shells were fired at the DPR, Donetsk, Gorlovka, Shirokaya Balka, Yasinovataya, Makeevka were under fire. Three civilians were wounded.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] The total number of deaths in Dnepropetrovsk as a result of a missile hitting a residential building has reached 20.
The Ukrainian media moved the record to "it doesn't matter - it was a Russian missile or an air defense missile is to blame - in any case, Russia is to blame."
Of course, if this was a real arrival of a rocket through a residential building, they would have turned a completely different barrel organ.
Well, it's all classic. As it already happened during the shelling of Poland and other hits on other residential buildings throughout Ukraine.
As shown by the media circus on blood, the victims in Dnepropetrovsk are just another consumable for the Zelensky gang.
As a result of "the work of the president of the world" many more people will die in Ukraine.
[DONRF] The death of twenty civilians is always a tragedy. Especially when there are children among them. Even if it's an enemy. My condolences to the relatives of the dead and injured in Dnepropetrovsk citizens of Ukraine. Donbass knows how it is, Ukrainian shells and rockets killed and maimed thousands of DLNR civilians. And the number of victims is growing daily.
However, we do not kill enemy civilians. This is not ours, and that which is not inherent in us. In principle, what happened is understandable - there is a Western version, Ukrainian, and two adequate ones. Exactly the same as it was in Kremenchug. But let's start with the questions:
1. Why are people not evacuated there at the signal "Air Raid"? The signal was, the time was. Earlier, there were also attacks on the infrastructure of the Dnieper, military and industrial. Why? In the last war, there was a door-to-door detour, people were forced to go down to bomb shelters, water, electricity and gas were turned off ... But then the governments did not give a damn about citizens. Kievsky doesn't care.
2. Why there were explosions in the house. I don't believe in BC or self-detonation. But in gas cylinders completely. Just as in Kremenchug there are some tanks across the fence from the shopping center, so here - Ukraine does not care about the safety of citizens.
3. Why was the version of Arestovich, whom only a complete psycho would call a Muscovite, blurred and refuted? After all, if he is right, the next tragedy is inevitable. Maybe because on peaceful ... read above. And here having thought over it - it is possible and about versions.
The simplest is Ukrainian. Damn the Muscovites, wanting to kill all Ukrainians, sent 27 rockets to power facilities, and one to a residential building. Without fail in the Dnieper and without fail a Soviet socket in a residential area. In the Russian Dnieper, and not, say, in the ragulized Lvov, or the Bandera Rivne. They are such Muscovites - they don’t want to kill Raguls and Bandera, but Russians are only happy. Rave? Full. But ... why does a pig need normal food? There is slop. And in Kyiv they perceive their lackeys precisely for pigs.
Western version - the rocket hit. Without clarification. For writing Ukrainian nonsense - they will not believe it, but they will not understand the truth. So got it. There is nothing to argue with - something got into the house.
Well, the versions are sane:
1. Air defense missile. In general, this happened many times, the Poles will not let you lie. Missiles for the S-300 are rotten and expired, self-liquidators do not work. In addition, installations and calculations are placed within the city, and if a missile misses, it still hits. At home. The taller the building, the higher the chance.
That the inhabitants of Ukraine should take into account, and finally protect their lives. If you don’t feel sorry for the property, hide in shelters, if it’s a pity, merge the coordinates of air defense installations on social networks, forcing them to move outside the city limits. Against her says that the explosion was powerful. Very powerful. Although if oxygen cylinders of 150 atmospheres were stored in the house ...
2. KR was hit by missiles, went off course and hit the house. The most likely version. PPO pratsyue so to speak. Of course, there was only one explosion on the video, but the hit could have been earlier. S-300 missiles release a huge amount of damaging elements during an explosion, and even one, hitting a missile, can change its course. Arestovich's coming-out also speaks for her.
Cynically speaking, for Kyiv, the civilian population is freeloaders, their death is material for propaganda, but the energy facility is valuable material. Therefore, knocking a missile off course is a feat, and the death of civilians ... they will be given Western weapons.
3. The CD itself went off course. Strongly unlikely. At a speed of Mach 3. Is at startup, but there is a self-liquidator. And if something goes wrong, the crew applies it. Rockets are old, rather primitive, but reliable. And KVO 50 meters. That is to miss on more - in any way. There are no objects in the photo that could be hit.
Therefore, version two is correct. Less likely - version one. Glory to PPO. PPO strength. PPO works. And once again I express my condolences to the victims, and once again I invite the Ukrainians to think. head. To keep her head on her shoulders. Because your authorities provoked a war, and your corpses are beneficial to your authorities. Think. And over this, and over why, say, in Lviv, Rivne and Lutsk, air defense is OUTSIDE the cities, and the interception is carried out at 30-40 km. And you, in Kyiv, Dnipro, Krivoy Rog, Nikolaev - a little differently.
As for the human aspect - let's not be like them. We are people, and it is stupid and immoral to rejoice at the death of peaceful people.
[Chernovec] The speaking head of the Ukrainian side, Aleksey Arestovich, said on air that the fall of a rocket on a residential building in Dnepropetrovsk was due to the work of Ukrainian air defense, which shot down a target over a residential area.
F: That is, there was no opportunity to shoot down this missile in the Dnieper in an amicable way?
A: No, she was knocked down and she fell on the porch.
F: Did she fall on the porch?
A: Yes. But it exploded when it fell.
One of the entrances of the house collapsed. At the moment, it is known about five dead and several dozen injured.
It is obvious that the rocket was shot down from the flight path along the Pridneprovskaya TPP. The TPP itself is located literally opposite the place where the downed missile fell, across the mirror of the Dnieper River.
There have already been many cases when Ukrainian air defense works so unsuccessfully - in the capital, in Odessa, in Zaporozhye, in Kharkov. That is, the problem is that the Armed Forces of Ukraine deploy air defense in the urban agglomeration in order to hide behind residential areas and protect their anti-aircraft systems.
This is not the first time that this has happened, but for the Ukrainian side to so without equivocals and promptly acknowledge its participation in what happened - this has never happened before. I suppose it's all the fault of the live broadcast, when for some time Lucien's tongue inadvertently ran ahead of his own thoughts.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian TG channels are outraged that Arestovich voiced the truthful information and obstructed him.
“And how do we look now in front of the world community” - the Ukrainian CIP colonel “Shtirlitz” is clearly bombarded by the fact that Lucien confused all the propaganda cards for him.
Someone attacked Arestovich with a question, they say, "who needs this truth of yours ???". Ukrainians live in a world of illusions much more pleasant
And someone talks about the inevitable dismissal of Arestovich, due to the fact that a drop of truth slipped through his propaganda.
For the sounded and inconvenient truth, the mayor of the Dnieper, Filatov, has already called Arestovich a "garbage mouth."
Ukrainian publics are already frankly admitting that Arestovich thwarted and nullified the psychological special operation they so diligently torn apart in the form of dances on the bones of the dead residents of Dnepropetrovsk.
It's time for Prigozhin to prepare an evacuation group to Kyiv. To save Arestovich.
[Chernovec] After Arestovich's words that the missile that fell on a house in Dnepropetrovsk was shot down by air defense forces, Mykola Oleshchuk, commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine "have no weapons capable of shooting down this type of missiles."
We are talking about X-22 cruise missiles. Back in the summer, according to official reports, they shot down Kh-22 missiles from everything they could.
Here is such a sudden reversal of the statements of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from “we shoot down everything” to “we don’t know how to shoot down such a thing at all.”
However, the journalists recalled that this year the Armed Forces of Ukraine officially reported the downing of such missiles by air defense forces at least three times this year.
- On May 30, the Air Force claimed to have shot down such a missile over the Odessa region and showed its wreckage.
- On June 5, on the Facebook of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine it was said: "5 X-22s flew out, we shot down one"
- on June 29 they reported the defeat of an X-22 flying from the Black Sea.
- On July 1, the 101st security brigade of the General Staff in Kyiv reported that it shot down such a missile with the Igla portable anti-aircraft missile system.
Their reality is pathological nonsense. They are still wondering why they are not believed...
The Office of the President urgently needs to clean all the media from old news, otherwise Ukrainians will finally begin to guess that they are constantly being lied to.
[Chernovec] Now Kiev is trying to find wording to somehow justify the statement of Aleksey Arestovich on the air that a rocket falling on a residential building in Dnepropetrovsk is the result of Ukrainian air defense .
With his careless revelations, Lucien destroyed and nullified the long-established messages of his own official propagandists.
Yesterday, the office propagandists already stated that they have no ability to shoot down Kh-22 missiles, although earlier they have repeatedly officially said the opposite and often stated that they shot down this type of missile.
But the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN stated that the showdown with each other (that is, the showdown between Arestovich and the Ukrainian media) should be postponed until later, advising the speaker to coordinate his statements with official representatives in the future, in fact calling for lying in the same way, “otherwise we’ll burn.”
And in general, in “history, the air defense was shot down - the air defense was not shot down,” the agency believes, it is necessary to put an end to it, because. in any version, Russia should be to blame.
About "who is to blame" sounds interesting. For some reason, journalists modestly did not develop reasoning about cause-and-effect relationships further.
Let me remind you that there would never have been a conflict:
- if at least in February 2022 Ukraine had confirmed its neutral status and not joining NATO;
- if there had been no publicized Bandera-fascist propaganda in the country:
- if official Kiev had fulfilled the Minsk agreements;
- if there had not been a bloody Maidan in 2014, a race on it with malicious Russophobic slogans, there would have been no overthrow of the current legitimate president (who, for a moment, was chosen by the South-East of Ukraine as well) and the split of the country in 2014 (Odessa tragedy, bombings of Donbass, etc.), which was organized by those who are now counting all the goodies from the Ukrainian crisis from across the ocean.
[DW] Sergey Surovikin has been removed as head of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine and replaced by Valery Gerasimov.
General Sergey Surovikin was commander-in-chief of the "special military operation," as Russia still officially calls its war of aggression against Ukraine, for just three months. On Thursday, Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu demoted him to deputy commander. He will now answer to Russia's chief of the general staff, General Valery Gerasimov, who will take over the leadership of Russia's military in Ukraine — nominally, at least.
This is not the first restructuring of the Russian chain of command since the start of the invasion, but the timing is surprising, as Russia is making small military advances for the first time in months. Military experts are divided over the reasoning behind it. They say that Surovikin has not actually committed any blunders during his time as commander-in-chief in Ukraine. He is also said to be reasonably popular with the troops, and to be on good terms with political hard-liners. So why has he been replaced?
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Boris Rozhin, the Crimean based military journalist/blogger announces he has been placed on Ukrainian president Zelenskiy's sanctions list.
Who is Boris Rozhin? Outside of the Russian ministry of defense and the ministries of defense of Luganks and Donetsk, Rozhin is perhaps the most knowledgeable about what is happening on the Russian side.
I post his posts all the time because he is plugged in to the Russian military side. In my mind, he is a valuable asset for such knowledge.
His original announcement, categorized as humor, is here. Says Rozhin:
Zelensky waved another sanctions list, where he wrote me down.
I am forbidden for 10 years to take part in the privatization of state property in Ukraine.
Will have to buy gold out of desperation.
I could not find his entry in the Ukrainian president's decree dated January 15, 2023, but I am told it is there.
[Insider] CIA director William J. Burns made a secret visit to Ukraine to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and pledge deeper US support, CNN reported Wednesday, citing two sources familiar with the trip.
Burns traveled to Kyiv earlier this month, CNN said. His trips are usually kept secret, The New York Times reported.
"While there, he reinforced the US commitment to provide support to Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression, including continued intelligence sharing," said on official to CNN, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
It is unclear how many trips Burns has made to Ukraine since the start of Russia's invasion in February. However, he also flew to Kyiv immediately before the invasion, according to The Times.
The report came after US officials have become increasingly worried that President Vladimir Putin could use a "dirty bomb" to escalate the war as Russia continues to suffer setbacks in Ukraine.
A "dirty bomb" is a type of explosive that uses conventional explosives to spread radioactive material.
But Burns told CBS News last month that the intelligence community has not seen "any practical evidence" that there is an "imminent threat."
US intelligence has extensively helped Ukraine oppose Russia, including in its counteroffensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region last month, The Hill reported.
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Clean-up plan for the lab sites that are rarely mentioned.
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It should be a Rantburg commandment not to use Lt. Worf's picture in this manner. When I think of the CIA it's more along the lines of the Ferengi or fuckin' Romulans.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
