Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] Not having significant achievements on the battlefield, the enemy attacks peaceful settlements.
by Iryna Gamalii
During the day, the enemy launched 4 missile strikes, 2 of which hit a civilian object in the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region. The enemy also carried out 13 airstrikes. Fired 23 shots from rocket salvo systems.
This was announced on Facebook by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the evening of the 328th day of the Russian large-scale invasion.
The threat of air and missile strikes by the Russian Federation on civilian objects remains high throughout Ukraine.
The enemy does not give up its intentions to seize the Donetsk region within the administrative borders. The main efforts are focused on conducting an offensive in the Bakhmut direction. Conducts unsuccessful offensive actions in the Avdiiv direction.
The enemy is trying to improve its tactical position in the Kupyan and Lyman directions , while it is defending itself in the Novopavliv, Zaporizhia, and Kherson directions.
In the Volyn, Poliske, Siversk and Slobozhansk directions , the situation has not changed significantly, and no offensive groups of the enemy have been detected. The Republic of Belarus continues to support Russian armed aggression, the rotation of Russian units undergoing training on the territory of Belarus continues. Areas of settlements of Mykolaivka, Chernihiv region were subjected to mortar and artillery shelling; Atynske, Sumy Region; Veterinary, Lukyantsi, Staritsa, Gatyshche, Vovchansk, Rybalkine, Nesterne, Zemlianki, Bologhivka, Kamianka, Dvorichna of the Kharkiv region.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy shelled the areas of the settlements of Kislivka, Kotlyarivka, Ivanivka of the Kharkiv region, as well as Novoselivske, Andriivka of the Luhansk region.
In the Lyman direction, the enemy shelled the areas of Ploshanka, Chervopopivka, Kreminna, and Dibrova settlements of the Luhansk region from the entire spectrum of artillery; Terny and Yampolivka, Donetsk region.
In the direction of Bakhmut, areas of the settlements Verkhnokamianske, Vyimka, Bilogorivka, Vesele, Soledar, Krasna Gora, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Kurdyumivka, Druzhba, Zalizne, New York of the Donetsk region were hit by enemy artillery fire.
On the Avdiivskyi direction, Avdiivka, Vodyane, Nevelske, Georgiivka, Maryinka and Novomykhailivka in Donetsk region came under enemy fire.
In the direction of Novopavlivsk, the enemy fired artillery and mortars at the areas of Vugledar, Mykilski Dachi and Prechistivka settlements of the Donetsk region.
In the Zaporizhia region, more than 10 settlements were affected by artillery fire, in particular, Vremivka, Novopil na Donnechyna and Temyrivka, Poltavka, Malynivka, Gulyaipole, Mala Tokmachka, Novoandriivka, Shcherbaki, Stepove, Kamianske and Plavni in the Zaporizhia region.
In the Kherson direction, the occupiers do not stop terrorizing the civilian population. In particular, Antonivka and Kherson were shelled by rocket salvo systems, and civilians were injured.
The Russian occupiers are trying to isolate the civilian population in the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson region from access to alternative sources of information. Along with stopping the broadcasting of all Ukrainian TV channels, the invaders made mobile communications available only to Russian operators.
According to available information, the Russian occupiers are intensifying search efforts for their deserters in the temporarily occupied territories. Under the pretext of searching for Ukrainian saboteurs, the invaders carry out raids on populated areas of the Kherson region.
During the day, the aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out 10 strikes on areas where the enemy's personnel, weapons and military equipment were concentrated. During the day, our defenders destroyed an enemy Su-25 aircraft.
Units of missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces of Ukraine hit two control points and the area where the occupiers are concentrated, an ammunition depot, a radio-electronic warfare station and a radio-location station.
It will be recalled that since the beginning of the full-scale war, Russia has abducted almost 14,000 Ukrainian children.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 22:50 Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte said that his country will allocate another 2.5 billion euros to support Ukraine in the war, and will also join the Patriot air defense systems project jointly with Germany. According to him, the attack in the Dnieper only strengthens the determination to continue supporting Ukraine.
In turn, Zelensky also confirmed in an evening video message that the Netherlands is providing Ukraine with another Patriot battery: "That is, we already have three guaranteed batteries. But this is just the beginning. We are working on new solutions to strengthen our air defense."
22:41 The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said in an interview with CNN that Ukraine needs to be provided with all the military equipment it can handle, including advanced systems: "I very much hope that there will be a big step forward at the meeting in Ramstein" .
21:08 Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, at a meeting with Biden at the White House, confirmed his intention to transfer Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine, Reuters writes.
20:59 American partners have promised to train Ukrainian operators of Patriot air defense systems in ten weeks, Reznikov said. According to him, the preparation usually lasts ten months.
20:26 The IAEA has already placed experts at two Ukrainian nuclear power plants - Rivne and South Ukrainian, said the agency's director general Rafael Grossi. A few days later, the same group will arrive at the Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant, the last of three in Ukrainian-controlled territory.
20:24 Olena Zelenskaya, during her speech in Davos, announced that she would give Chinese Vice Premier Liu He a letter with President Zelensky's proposals to end the war. She asked that this letter be delivered to President Xi Jinping. She also said that she had letters for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Swiss President Alain Berset.
20:21 During the last missile attack, nine thermal power plants were damaged, Shmyhal said. In particular, one block of a thermal power plant in the east and eight blocks of thermal power plants in the west of the country were damaged. Three main substations and one overhead line were also damaged. This has led to an increase in power shortages in the power system.
19:34 The Netherlands is considering sending Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine, writes Bloomberg. The decision must be made soon.
19:11 The World Economic Forum, which is held under the sign of Ukraine, has started in Davos. Read more in the material Tanks and NATO membership .
19:03 The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that on Saturday, January 14, the enemy used S-400 anti-aircraft missiles from the Bryansk region in Kiev. The representative of the Air Force Yuri Ignat, in a commentary to the UP, specified that at that time the enemy fired more than ten such missiles that flew along a ballistic trajectory - there are no means to destroy them yet.
“You need to understand that there is a threat from there too, so you need to take certain countermeasures. The enemy doesn’t have many options where to place them. I won’t say what needs to be done there, but steps are already being taken on this,” Ignat added.
18:56 The Russians are trying to isolate the civilian population of the Kherson region from access to alternative sources of information. Along with stopping the broadcast of all Ukrainian TV channels, they made mobile communications available only to Russian operators, the General Staff said in an evening summary.
Also, the invaders are actively looking for their deserters in the temporarily occupied territories. Under the pretext of searching for Ukrainian saboteurs, the Russians are carrying out raids on settlements in the Kherson region.
18:09 A new defense minister has been appointed in Germany - Boris Pistorius. Tomorrow he will meet with the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, on the eve of a new meeting in the Ramstein format, where they should discuss the issue of supplying tanks to Ukraine, Reuters writes.
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said that "the new German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius will first consider the issue of deliveries of Leopard 2 tanks." According to him, Ukraine "should receive all the military equipment that is necessary to win the war."
18:03 Zaluzhny said that today in Poland he had his first personal meeting with the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley.
17:45 Olena Zelenska presented the Ukrainian formula for peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
17:27 Another 20,000 Ukrainian military will be trained in the UK this year, Defense Minister Ben Wallace said. According to him, Australia will also join the training mission along with Canada, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Sweden, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway.
17:14 The occupiers caused damage to the Zaporozhye NPP for 40 billion UAH, said the head of Energoatom Petr Kotin. According to him, Energoatom will bill Russia for the damage caused by the ZNPP as a result of shelling and blackouts. He also stressed that if the occupation continues for another 1-2 years, the station will completely fail.
17:09 International assistance to Ukraine has exceeded 113 billion euros. This amount includes military, financial and humanitarian assistance from foreign governments, according to a study by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
According to the Ukraine Support Tracker system, which tracks the scale of international assistance, 40 countries have become donors to Ukraine. The EU allocated almost 52 billion euros, the US - 48 billion euros. Half of the allocated funds is financial assistance, another third is military assistance, and the rest is humanitarian support.
At the same time, the European Union has become a leader in providing financial assistance: EU member states and European institutions have pledged to provide Ukraine with almost 35 billion euros for budgetary needs. And the United States remains the leader in military support - the amount has already reached 23 billion euros.
16:55 The death toll as a result of a missile attack on a high-rise building in Dnipro has increased to 45 people, including six children , said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
16:28 Zelensky said that during a video conference meeting with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, he discussed the situation at the front, the need to increase defense support for Ukraine, and the diplomatic process of implementing the Ukrainian peace formula. "Ukraine appreciates the important defense decisions made by the German leadership at the beginning of this year, as well as the significant support in the humanitarian, financial and defense spheres from the very beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion," the Ukrainian president added.
15:59 Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto confirmed that Helsinki is ready to take part in a coalition of countries that will transfer Leopard tanks to Ukraine: "The discussion on Leopard tanks continues. I hope this decision will be made, and Finland is undeniably ready to play its role in this support".
15:43 The bodies of 15 dead as a result of a rocket attack on a high-rise building in the Dnieper remain unidentified. 20 people are missing, including four children, the National Police said.
14:56 Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that Russia should stop trying to recruit Serbs to participate in hostilities on the side of PMC Wagner in Ukraine. Vučić has criticized Russian websites and social media groups for posting ads in Serbian in which the Wagner Group encourages volunteers to join its ranks. "Why are you from Wagner calling someone from Serbia when you know it's against our rules?" Vucic said.
14:40 The leadership of the "Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR" appointed "guilty" of the death of Russian mobilized in Makeevka as a result of the Ukrainian strike. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, the deputy head of the Makeyevka police department and seven other "people's policemen" who have already been arrested were "appointed" as such "guilty". All of them were formally charged with "negligent attitude to functional duties." The accused will subsequently be sent "to perform tasks" to checkpoints near the settlements of Opytnoye and Mayorsk.
Intelligence also reported that personnel who are not planned to be involved in hostilities are arriving en masse on the territory of the "DPR". These subunits are distributed among "temporary deployment points", and their main task is to strengthen the counterintelligence regime. The greatest attention is paid to the locations of the Kadyrovites, the level of confidence in which on the part of the military command is sharply declining.
14:19 Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda hopes that at the NATO summit in July in Vilnius new wordings regarding Ukraine's membership will be found: "Because every time we repeat what we said at the summit in Bucharest in 2008, -" We keep the doors open "It's not enough anymore."
14:17 Ukraine has received the first tranche of macro-financial assistance from the EU in the amount of 3 billion euros, the European Commission announced.
14:06 Putin said that the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation has “gained serious momentum” over the past year and continues to increase its capacity: defense enterprises work in several shifts, some around the clock.
13:33 In Dnipro, search and rescue operations have been completed at the site of a missile attack on an apartment building , the State Emergency Service reported. According to the latest data:
39 people were saved, including six children,
44 people died, including five children,
79 people were injured, including 16 children,
47 reports of missing persons were received, of which 23 people were found dead, four people were found alive with relatives, in hospitals.
13:19 The EU hopes that the sanctions will plunge the Russian economy into recession for a decade, said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
12:54 The Ukrainian military is still in Soledar and is rebuffing the Russian army, Serhiy Cherevaty, spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said in a comment to Suspilny: "The situation is the same as yesterday. Our units are there and constantly hit the enemy with fire."
12:51 Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg urged to maintain a sense of proportion and "not go too far" in relation to Russia, despite the war unleashed by it in Ukraine, since today's actions will determine the status of the free world for many years to come. In turn, the speaker of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Oleg Nikolenko said that "calls to continue dialogue with Russia, to respect its history and culture reinforce the Kremlin's sense of impunity."
12:45 Peskov said that Russia is forced to increase the size of the army to 1.5 million people because of the "proxy war" that the West is allegedly waging against it. He clarified that this is a "proxy war", which "includes elements of indirect participation in hostilities, and elements of economic war, financial war, legal war, going beyond the legal field, and so on."
12:19 On the territory of the occupied Donetsk region, the Russians are introducing a rule of mandatory military registration of all private vehicles, said the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko.
12:15 Russian media write that the first "volunteers" from Serbia began to be trained in the occupied Zaporozhye region as part of a "volunteer battalion."
12:01 Only the continuation of the war guarantees the preservation of power to Putin and his henchmen. Russia's blitzkrieg has failed, and for Putin, this means that the war must be dragged out, because the alternative is only an international tribunal or a revolt within the country. Putin will not give up his strategic goal - a genocidal war, that is, the destruction of the Ukrainian people and state, said Andrei Yusov, spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
According to him, the enemy is preparing various scenarios, and is also engaged in disinformation - for example, he makes stuff about the landing on Odessa and constantly discusses the topic of Belarus. At the same time, as of today, there are no formed strike groups and there is no threat of involving Belarus in a full-scale invasion.
Yusov also recalled that Russia has a human resource for mobilization, and they have a large amount of Soviet weapons in storage: “Yes, bad, yes, of poor quality, but old Soviet tanks will be able to start, drive and fire ... We must remind both to ourselves and to the world that we are still dealing with a large, terrible and dangerous enemy, which has a significant quantitative composition, various types of weapons and is waging a terrorist genocidal war.
11:52 Klitschko said that he had met in Davos with Vice-Chancellor - German Economy Minister Robert Habek: "We talked about further support and assistance. In particular, about the transfer of weapons. Positive decisions have been made. Good news will be coming soon."
11:30 Freelance adviser to the Office of the President Oleksiy Arestovich wrote a letter of resignation after he stated that the tragedy in the Dnieper, "apparently", was the result of the work of the Ukrainian air defense. This caused a flurry of criticism, since his "version" was immediately picked up by Russian propaganda and the authorities.
11:27 The death toll as a result of a strike on a high-rise building in the Dnieper has increased to 44 people , Mayor Boris Filatov said.
11:22 Poland intends to transfer about 14 Leopard tanks to Ukraine, Duda said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The Polish president expressed hope that other partners would also provide Ukraine with Leopard tanks.
10:48 As of the morning of January 17, there is a significant shortage of power in the energy system, especially during the morning and evening consumption peaks, Ukrenergo reported. Consumption limits for the whole day have been brought to all operators of distribution systems. Due to their excess, emergency shutdowns have already been applied in six regions of Ukraine.
10:25 Russians last night fired at the settlement of the Ochakovsky community of the Nikolaevsky area therefore one person was lost. Damaged social infrastructure and residential buildings, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
10:16 The contract with Rosatom was signed by 650 employees of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, the head of Energoatom Petr Kotin said. According to him, these are mainly working personnel who received the lowest salary, but there are also managers among them. Now about 6,000 NPP employees remain in Energodar, but only half go to work.
10:14 In Dnipro, the body of a dead child was pulled out from under the rubble of a destroyed residential building - the number of victims, thus, increased to 41 people (of which four were children). 79 people were injured (of which 16 were children) and 39 people were rescued (of which six were children), the Office of the President reported.
09:57 British intelligence reports that the strike on a multi-storey residential building in the Dnieper on January 14 was most likely carried out by a Kh-22 Burya (NATO classification - AS-4 Kitchen) supersonic long-range air-launched anti-ship missile, which has low accuracy when used against ground targets.
According to analysts, the statements of the Russian side that the Ukrainian air defense was to blame for the strike are unfounded. Experts recalled that this missile is inaccurate when used against ground targets, since its radar guidance system does not distinguish targets well in urban areas. The intelligence also recalled that similar weapons were the cause of other incidents with mass casualties among the civilian population, including an attack on a shopping center in Kremenchug on June 27, 2022.
Analysts note that the use of such missiles for strikes on Ukrainian territory indicates the inability of the Russian Federation to deliver long-range precision strikes. Russia likely has difficulty with dynamic target identification and access to fast and accurate combat damage assessments, intelligence points out.
09:26 In the Kherson region over the past day due to Russian shelling, one person was killed, two were injured, the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich, said.
08:59 Over the past day, the enemy fired at the front-line settlements of Kupyansky, Chuguevsky and Kharkiv districts of the Kharkiv region. Two people were wounded in Kupyansk, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
08:57 In the Donetsk region over the past day as a result of enemy shelling, two civilians were killed - in Bakhmut and Severny. Another person in the region was injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
08:46 Russia has increased the number of rocket carriers in the Black Sea to six, the total salvo - up to 44 Calibers, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden. According to her, the record charge during the war was 48 sea-based missiles. Gumenyuk added that this may indicate the preparation of another massive strike against Ukraine.
08:25 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy as of the morning of January 17th.
personnel - about 116,950 (+870) people liquidated,
tanks - 3121 (+3),
armored combat vehicles - 6215 (+11),
artillery systems - 2104 (+5),
MLRS - 441 (+3),
air defense systems - 220 (+0),
aircraft - 286 (+0),
helicopters - 276 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1872 (+0),
cruise missiles - 749 (+0),
ships/boats - 17 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 4877 (+7),
special equipment - 190 (+0).
08:17 The enemy does not leave his intentions to completely capture the Donetsk region, is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions, the General Staff said in the morning report . On the Kupyansky, Limansky and Novopavlovsky directions, the enemy is trying to improve the tactical position, on the Zaporozhye and Kherson - continues to defend.
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled attacks by invaders in areas of more than 20 settlements, including: Belogorovka, Luhansk region; Verkhnekamenskoe, Controversial, Krasnopolevka, Salt, Soledar, Belogorovka, Bakhmut, Northern, Kamenka, Vodyanoye, Nevelskoye, Maryinka, Pobeda of the Donetsk region.
In the settlements of Zavodovka, Gornostaevka and Cairo of the Kherson region, the invaders stopped the broadcasting of all Ukrainian TV channels, only Russian television is broadcast.
07:42 The rescue operation in the Dnieper continues for more than 63 hours, 90% of the debris of the house destroyed by the Russian missile has been dismantled. 40 people died, 39 were rescued, 79 were injured (including 16 children), 28 victims remain in hospitals, ten of them are in serious condition. At the same time, 25 residents of the house are still being searched for, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
05:10 Blinken will visit China on February 5-6, where he will meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang. There he will discuss a number of issues, including the war in Ukraine, writes Politico. The United States hopes that China will not provide support to Moscow and will not provide assistance to the Russian Federation, including in circumventing sanctions.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:33 Specialists of the subdivisions of the fuel logistics service of the Eastern Military District continue to perform tasks for the comprehensive support of units in the special operation zone
Mobile refueling complexes deployed in close proximity to the contact line ensure uninterrupted refueling of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, as well as vehicles, with fuel and lubricants at any time of the day and under any weather conditions.
In the VVO association, the MTO fuel service ensures uninterrupted refueling of more than 2,000 vehicles and armored vehicles, autonomous power supply units and heating points.
20:20 Serbian volunteers joined the Russian battalion named after Pavel Sudoplatov - their training is close to a real battle
Volunteers who arrived from Serbia began to coordinate as part of combat training tasks, Yevhen Balitsky, Acting Governor of the Zaporozhye Region, said. According to the head of the region, the classes are close to real combat clashes. In addition, foreign volunteers are involved in providing security throughout the region.
Recruitment to the Sudoplatov battalion continues. Yevgeny Balitsky notes that the regional administration intends to continue to provide all necessary support to the fighters.
19:08 M113AS4 armored personnel carrier destroyed in Marinka (Australian modification with a turret and additional armor)
18:20 Two Tu-160 strategic missile carriers fulfilled scheduled flight in airspace over the neutral waters of the Arctic Ocean for more than 10 hours.
Long-range aviation pilots regularly fly over the neutral waters of the Arctic, the North Atlantic, the Black and Baltic Seas, and the Pacific Ocean.
All flights of aircraft of the Aerospace Forces of Russia are carried out in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace.
17:04KA-52 gunships "Alligators" on the hunt:combat workcrews of Ka-52 reconnaissance and attack helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces
The crews of Ka-52 attack helicopters inflict damage with unguided 80mm aircraft missiles on fortified positions, equipment and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
When performing a missile strike, helicopter pilots use the Gorka aerobatics element, which makes it possible to deliver a missile strike over a long distance with an accurate hit on the target. In addition, the crews fly at extremely low altitudes, skirting the terrain, in order to evade enemy air defense systems.
The commander of the helicopter with the call sign "Lumberjack" shared that sometimes the height of flights can reach one meter above ground level.
Upon returning to the base sites, the engineering and technical staff prepares aviation equipment for further combat work.
16:08 Sparta gunners and drone operatorsgraduallydisassemble enemy positions north of Pervomaisky
15:00 Highlights from the new briefing of the RF Ministry of Defense:
◾️The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction amounted to more than 70 military personnel and seven vehicles;
◾️Russian units destroyed up to 40 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Yuzhno-Donets direction in a day;
◾️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue their offensive in the direction of Donetsk, more than 60 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in a day;
◾️Two sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the DPR;
◾️The RF Armed Forces destroyed howitzers Krab, M109 "Paladin" and MLRS 122mm BM-21 "Grad" in the Kharkiv region;
◾️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group in the Liman Pervy area in the Kharkiv region;
◾️The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction per day amounted to more than 50 military;
◾️The Russian military hit a warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons in the Kharkov region;
◾️During the day, Russian air defense systems intercepted 14 HIMARS and Vilkha MLRS shells, shot down Tochka-U and HARM missiles;
◾️The RF Armed Forces destroyed two AN/TPQ-50 stations in the Kherson region.
13:56 Serbian volunteers from the Volunteer Battalion of the RF Armed Forcesstartedundergo training in the Zaporozhye region
A Serb with the call sign "Danube" said that he remembers well the tragedy that occurred in the 90s in Yugoslavia.
“We know what injustice is because of NATO and what they did in Serbia, in Kosovo. The Slavic tribes are brothers, so we must help each other in the fight against NATO. Ukrainians are also brother Slavs, but they are frozen by deceit, there are a lot of lies, and now they are all against Russia,” he says.
The situation in Ukraine directly affects the future of Kosovo and all of Serbia.
13:00 A significant shortage of power remains in the energy system of Ukraine, emergency power outages have been applied in six regions, the national energy company Ukrenergo reported.
“There is a significant shortage of capacity in the energy system. The distribution system operator has brought consumption limits for the whole day... Now, due to their excess, emergency shutdowns have already been applied in six regions of Ukraine," Ukrenergo said in a message on its Telegram channel.
12:05 Canadian citizen Grigory Tsekhmistrenko was liquidated in the Artemovsk region in the Donetsk People's Republic, where he arrived as a military doctor of the Foreign Legion. This was reported by The Globe and Mail on Monday.
Details, including the age of the deceased, are not yet known. It is only indicated that he spent most of his life in Ukraine and received Canadian citizenship three years ago. The medic was killed on Sunday near Artemovsk (Ukrainian name - Bakhmut). A Canadian Foreign Office spokesman declined to comment for the newspaper.
Thus, Tsekhmistrenko became the third Canadian whose death is known in Ukraine at the moment, specifies The Globe and Mail.
10:48 Russian fighters shot down APU drone in Donbas
The Ukrainian “bird” turned out to be unusually large and could carry as many as four grenades at the same time. However, with six propellers and a gasoline engine, it proved to be an easy target for small arms. As a result, the Russian Armed Forces landed a Ukrainian drone with the help of several bursts.
09:43 The Ukrainian Armed Forces once again fired at Shebekino - there is no electricity in the city.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine once again shelled Shebekino in the Belgorod region, said the governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov. According to him, the militants damaged power lines, which are now being repaired.
09:20 Air raid alert announced in Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk regions of Ukraine and Kyiv-controlled part of Zaporozhye, data showonline mapsminifigures.
09:12 Commander of the group of snipers of the Marine Corps of the Pacific Fleet with the call sign "Yary" told how the work and training of snipers is arranged.
"A group of heavy snipers was created at the initiative of the commander of the Pacific Fleet in April 2022. The main tasks are counter-sniper combat, the destruction of fire spotters at ultra-long distances over 1 km," the fighter shared.
09:03 Destruction of BMP of the enemy with a guided projectile.
The armored vehicle with personnel advanced to the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The BMP was discovered from the air and destroyed along with those who were in it.
08:07 Operator ZRPK "Pantsir-S1" told about the work of their calculation in the NE zone
In the course of a special military operation, the crews of Pantsir-S1 self-propelled anti-aircraft missile and gun systems continue to provide protection for units of the RF Armed Forces.
08:05 The Ministry of Defense published personnel combat work of crews of multi-purpose attack helicopters and fire support groups of army aviation.
07:51 At night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to shell Belgorod. Air defense worked over the city, there are no consequences, according to the governor of the region.
07:07 Interference station operator told how it intercepts Ukrainian UAVs.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:55 Over the past day Representation reported about 21 facts of firing by the VFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 10 attacks from the MLRS, 155mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky 10 artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
On Khartsyzsky one artillery attack from the Himars MLRS.
Having fired 123 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of eight settlements of the Republic: the capital city of Donetsk (Leninsky, Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Zaitsevo, Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Shirokaya Balka, Panteleimonovka, Aleksandrovka, Blagodatnoe, Khartsyzsk.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of two civilians in previously liberated Volnovakha and Blagodatny.
Damaged two houses inNikitovsky district Gorlovka andKhartsyzsk, as well as four objects civil infrastructure.
AT previous 35 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU per day.
@online_dnr_sckk
22:00 Ukrainian troops at 20.50 shelled the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing six rounds of the "NATO" caliber of 155mm, reported representative office of the DPR at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
"Fire was recorded from the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Armed Forces of Ukraine - ed.) in the direction: 20.50 - the settlement of Kurakhovo - the city of Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired," the message of the representative office in the Telegram channel says.
21:08 Pushilin: "All skyscrapers in Maryinka have been cleared and are controlled by Russian troops, there is reason to expect that this settlement will be liberated from Ukrainian troops as soon as possible."
19:48 Military correspondent Murad Gazdiev reports that Wagner PMC assault groups have occupied Mine No. 7 to the west of Soledar. Thus, the territory to the west of the city is also cleared. Now the release of Blagodatny and Razdolovka is on the agenda.
19:35 Personnel from a combat helicopter of the Russian Aerospace Forces. KA-52 "Alligator" strikes with a missile at an off-road vehicle with militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
19:28 RT military commander Murad Gazdievtell show Soledar was liberated.
"The city was taken quickly enough, despite the fierce resistance of Ukrainian nationalists."
One of the Wagner operators told RT correspondent Murad Gazdiev that fighting in urban conditions is the element of Wagner PMC.
Wagner captured hundreds of enemy fighters, many of whom were foreign mercenaries. At the same time, dozens of bodies of the Ukrainian military remained in Soledar, Murad noted:
“10, 12, 30, 40, 50, 60 - and more, and more. It looks creepy: the corpses are frozen in the positions in which these soldiers were at the time of death.
19:20 Day and night crews of UAVs of the 100th Brigade correct fire on enemy positions.
In modern conditions, it is difficult to overestimate the importance of unmanned aerial vehicles. Experienced UAV crews are capable of adjusting artillery and aviation fire on enemy positions with high efficiency.
An officer of the 100th Brigade of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps with the call sign Belorus tells about his combat work.
18:55 Soledar direction situation as of January 17, 2023:
In the Soledar sector yesterday, assault detachments of PMC "Wagner" completely liberated the village of Sol, cutting off the supply between Artemovsk and Seversk and opening a bridgehead to the exit to the Seversk agglomeration.
The remaining Ukrainian formations withdrew from the settlement to reserve positions on a hill. A company of an unidentified unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was transferred from Novoselidovka to the vicinity of Krasnopolye.
At the moment, the offensive of the Russian fighters continues in the direction of the strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Blagodatnoe, Krasnopolye, Razdolovka, Veseloe, as well as in Paraskovievka and Krasnaya Gora north of Artemovsk.
In Artemovsk itself, intense fighting is going on in urban areas on the streets of Labor Reserves, Patrice Lumumba and in Maly Troitsky Lane.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine sent one of the formations from the Liman sector near Artemovsk to hold the garrison. In addition, personnel reinforced with armored vehicles arrived from Druzhkovka to Chasov Yar.
In Artemovsk, forces of the 63rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were deployed to strengthen the defense on the southern outskirts. At the same time, movement inside the city is complicated by constant fire from Russian troops and a shortage of armored vehicles.
In addition, 150 people from the recently mobilized and transferred to Artemovsk in the 60th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refused to fight.
In order to make up for the losses, the Ukrainian leadership increased the pace of mobilization among the population, issuing summonses without a medical examination and without taking into account the state of health of citizens.
18:48 Ukrainian troops fired six "NATO" rounds with a caliber of 155mm at Panteleymonovka, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
18:35 Evening summary of Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on January 17, 2023.
17:58 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC on January 17, additional information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka (Zaitsevo village): - st. Manuilsky, 136 - a direct hit in a private residential building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
17:31 Ukrainian troops fired four rounds with a caliber of 155mm in the Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
17:30 Ukrainian troops defiled temple in Soledar.
The militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine equipped firing points in the church and there they were overtaken by a punishing hand in the person of Wagner PMC.
17:10 Artillery units of the RF Armed Forcesinflictfire damage on the positions of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Spornovo.
16:05 Scouts 3 destroyed enemy pickup.
Scouts of the 3rd Guards Special Purpose Battalion of the 1st Army Corps, during reconnaissance at night, using a thermal imager, revealed the movement of an enemy vehicle. The identified target was hit by an ATGM.
15:57 Ukrainian troops at 15.50 fired 20 rockets from the MLRS in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
15:54 Ukrainian troops at 15.40 fired six rounds of "NATO" caliber 155mm in Gorlovka, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
15:34 Fixation of the consequences of the shelling of N. p. Khartsyzsk 17.01.2023
15:15 Ukrainian troops fired four rounds with a caliber of 155mm at the Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
15:13 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC on January 17, additional information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Blagodatnoe: - on the street. Yubileinaya, 35, a man born in 1962 died.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
14:42 There were reports that at this moment there is a powerful assault on Marinka and its environs. Residents of Maksimilyanovka and Gornyak report a large number of arrivals, all types of weapons are in operation, from small arms to MLRS
Donetsk at the moment also feels the sounds of battle from this direction
14:23 Ukrainian troops at 14.15 fired six "NATO" rounds 155mm in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk - DPR representative office in the JCCC
13:45 Ukrainian troops fired six rounds with a caliber of 155mm at the Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
13:36 Effects of shelling of the center of Volnovakha last night. A woman born in 1941 died.
13:15 French Foreign Legion mercenary Yevgeny Kulik liquidated in the DPR, the press service of Yevgeny Prigozhin publishes his documents.
Yevgeny Prigozhin announced the liquidation of Yevgeny Kulik, a native of the city of Poltava, who took part in the hostilities in the territory of Donbass as part of the French Foreign Legion.
13:05 Circumstance in the Ugledar direction.
In the Ugledar direction, active hostilities continue. The units of the RF Armed Forces do not allow the enemy to relax, destroying manpower, armored vehicles and even air targets of the enemy.
12:55 Ukrainian troops shelled Kakhovka in the Kherson region on Tuesday night, two people were killed, there are wounded - including a child, local authorities report.
“The Ukrainian military fired on the night of January 17 Kakhovka. As a result of the attack, two people were killed and a child was injured. Another two people received shrapnel wounds. Doctors assess the condition of the victims as moderate,” the city administration said in a Telegram channel.
As specified, the victims were hospitalized in the Kakhovka Central District Hospital.
12:25 “The mood of the enemy as a whole is very deplorable. Slowly, they begin to surrender" - commander of a tank company of the RF Armed Forcestoldabout the situation in the southern sector in the special operation zone.
11:58 Ukrainian troops fired six 155mm projectiles at Shirokaya Balka in the DPR, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
11:48 Russian tankers destroyed ammunition depot in the Svatovsky direction.
11:35 Consequences of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from HIMARS in the city of Khartsyzsk in the DPR-video.
A civilian infrastructure facility, a furniture store, was hit. The footage shows that most of the building was destroyed.
10:59 Pushilin confirmed that the Sol railway station in the Soledar region has come under the full control of Russian troops.
10:44 Seversk is in the operational encirclement of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and, apparently, will soon be abandoned by the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
10:42 According to Marinka, it is reported that 300 meters are left for the full control of the Russian troops over the settlement. In all directions in the Donbass, there is pressure on the enemy.
10:31 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for January 17, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Volnovakha: - as a result of hit by an unidentified GP on the street. Lenina, 55, a woman born in 1941 died.
Additional information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
n.p. Volnovakha: - a direct hit on the building of the Uyut Hotel was recorded.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
10:20 Afternoon summary of Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on January 17, 2023.
10:17 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC on January 17, information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
n.p. Khartsyzsk:
- damage to the infrastructure of Khartsyzsky Machine-Building Plant LLC was recorded;
- damage to the administrative building was recorded;
- Damage to the building of the Kontur Furniture Store was recorded.
09:52 Combat helicopters work in the Avdeevsky direction.
09:47 Soledar is completely liberated - the headquarters of the DPR's defense.
The DPR territorial defense headquarters reported that the Russian military had completely liberated Soledar.
09:15 Frontline summary on the morning of 17.01.2023:
In the Kherson direction, Russian artillery hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Antonovka, the villages of Sadovoye, Lvovo, Kachkarovka and Gavrilovka.
On the Uludar site, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation attacked on the ground in the area of Bolshaya Novosyolka and Prechistovka. Artillery worked throughout the city.
On the southern sector of the Donetsk front, with the support of artillery, Russian troops attacked in the direction of Novomikhailovka. A little to the north they tried to break through to Pobeda. They also conducted assault operations in the city of Marinka. Artillery worked on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city.
Another ground attack on the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Krasnohorivka. Offensive actions in the direction of Nevelskoye, Pervomaisky and Vodyanoye. Fortified area of the Ukrainian army in Avdievka under artillery fire. And to the north, Russian troops attacked Novobakhmutovka.
To the south of Artemovsk, PMC "Wagner" pushed through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kleshcheevka. She also attacks on the eastern outskirts of the city. To the north of Soledar, the "orchestrants" are storming Krasnopolovka.
The goal is to cut one of the routes to Seversk. Russian troops attacked again in the area of Spornovo. They also resumed the offensive on Verkhnekamenskoye.
On the Luhansk front, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation attacked Belogorovka. This time they changed direction. If earlier they tried to break through from the north, now they were advancing from the southeast. Also, Russian troops carried out attacking operations in the Krasnopopovka area.
09:10 Attack UAVs of the 9th Regiment continuously destroy manpower and equipment of the enemy.
Operators of impact quadrocopters continuously detect and destroy the identified enemy manpower and equipment.
08:50 Under the Kreminnaya formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they will find out what it is like to stand against the 4th brigade. Drone operator finds enemy position. A couple of minutes - and 152mm Hyacinth-B rounds cover it.
08:37 Information on the shelling of Gorlovka as of 08:00 on 01/17/2023
08:07 During the day, three people were killed on the territory of the DPR, 5 more were injured.
Over the past day, from 08:00 on January 16 to 08:00 on January 17, three people were killed and five more civilians were injured as a result of shelling of the VFU in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic - Headquarters of the TerO DPR.
08:05 Video of clearing rubble in Donetsk after shelling by Ukrainian troops.
07:32 Ukrainian troops fired 6 rounds with a caliber of 155mm at Aleksandrovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, according to the Telegram channel of the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
06:57 In Donetsk, the bodies of two more women were pulled out from under the rubble - as a result, the number of those killed as a result of the attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine increased to three people.
Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR continue to sort out the rubble after yesterday's attack on Donetsk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Then, we recall, Ukrainian nationalists struck at the Kalininsky district of the city, eventually hitting a shopping center, a residential building and a pharmacy.
It is already known that the death toll is at least three people - the body of a man was pulled out of the rubble the night before, and the bodies of two more dead women were pulled out tonight. Emergency services specified that work would continue until the rubble was completely cleared, so it is likely that the number of victims of the Kyiv regime will only increase.
06:20 Over the past 24 hours, on January 16, 2023, no shelling of settlements was recorded by the LPR representative office in the JCCC.
04:01 Destroyed near Soledar Ukrainian armored vehicle Iveco LMV.
02:05 The enemy attacked Khartsyzsk in the DPR
Fixed shelling from the APU. AT
01:12 Khartsyzsk, Ukrainian militants fired two rockets from the MLRS, the DPR JCCC reports.
02:12 The crew of the T-72B3 tank of the Russian Armed Forces destroys Ukrainian BMP in the Kherson direction. Archive.
01:53 Destroyed Western-made Ukrainian army equipment in Marinka: M113 armored personnel carrier, Kirpi and HMMWV armored vehicles.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Many commemorative and mourning events will be held in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region on January 18, 2023, on the day of the 80th anniversary of the breaking of the blockade of Leningrad.
On this day in 1943, during fierce battles with the Nazi invaders near the southern shore of Lake Ladoga, the troops of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts joined, breaking the deadly ring around Leningrad. On the memorable anniversary, Russian President Vladimir Putin , the son of a Red Army soldier who fought on the Nevsky Piglet and was seriously wounded, will visit St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
In the morning, on the occasion of the Day of Military Glory, gas torches will be lit on the Rostral Columns. The lights will be on from 10:00 to 12:00 and then in the evening from 19:00 to 22:00. At 11 o'clock, a solemn and mourning ceremony of laying flowers at the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad on Victory Square will begin. The midday shot from the Naryshkin bastion of the Peter and Paul Fortress on January 18 will also be dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the breaking of the siege of Leningrad.
At the same time, a commemorative action will begin in the Breakthrough of the Siege of Leningrad museum-reserve in the Kirovsky district of the Leningrad region. It will be attended by activists of public organizations of veterans and blockade survivors of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.
The solemn event dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the breaking of the siege of Leningrad, with a festive performance for veterans and siege survivors, will begin at 17:00 in the Ice Palace of St. Petersburg. Olympic champions, world and Russian champions in figure skating, popular Russian artists and creative teams from St. Petersburg will take part in the performance.
Near the Gostiny Dvor metro station, starting at 17:00, volunteers will distribute Lentochki of the Leningrad Victory to residents and guests of the city. The ribbon repeats the colors of the moiré ribbon of the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad".
And exactly at 9 pm, the first volleys of festive artillery salute will sound near the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress, which will be accompanied by festive fireworks.
Let us add that from January 18 to January 27, at the entrance to Moskovsky Prospekt of St. Petersburg from the side of the Pulkovskoye Highway at night, the sky will be illuminated by the “rays of Victory”. Thanks to powerful spotlights placed on the roofs of two high-rise buildings, the beams will be visible from different parts of the city. They will remind you of air defense fighters who found enemy planes in the night sky in order to shoot them down with anti-aircraft guns.
From 18 to 21 January on Manezhnaya Square you can visit the interactive project "Living Streets". This is an exposition designed to show how everyday and cultural life went on in besieged Leningrad. All installations will be sounded with audio recordings from the archive of the Radio House. The centerpiece of the exposition will be the Lorry Aiming at the Sky, reminiscent of the cars that traveled along the Road of Life.
In addition, on January 18, 20 and 21, concerts will be held at Manezhnaya Square, in which leading artists of St. Petersburg theaters, children's and youth creative teams, soloists of the Petersburg Concert will take part. Songs and poems of the war years, works dedicated to the feat of Leningrad, fragments from the programs of front-line concert brigades will be heard.
***
The blockade of Leningrad was broken during Operation Iskra, carried out by the troops of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts. The operation began on January 12, 1943 with a powerful air and artillery strike of the Soviet troops on the positions of the Nazis. After that, tanks and infantry of the Leningrad Front moved on the ice of the Neva from the right bank to the enemy. At the same time, the 2nd Shock Army of the Volkhov Front launched an offensive from the east north of Sinyavino.
On January 18, the shock groups of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts met near the southern shore of Lake Ladoga, creating a narrow corridor that connected Leningrad by land with the rest of the country. The defeated units of the enemy scattered through the forests, throwing weapons and ammunition. On the same day, the city of Shlisselburg was liberated from the Nazis, covering the entrance to the Neva from Lake Ladoga.
The breakthrough of the blockade was the first example in history of the release of a large city by a simultaneous strike from outside and from within. A railroad was laid along the banks of Ladoga in the so-called "corridor of death", reconnecting Leningrad with the country. The blockade of Leningrad was completely liquidated on January 27, 1944.
[REGNUM] On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the breaking of the blockade of Leningrad, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation presented archival documents
Details of Operation Iskra to break the blockade of Leningrad in 1943 were made public on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the deblocking of the city. Excerpts from archival documents were published by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
This includes an order dated December 8, 1942, which sets the task of lifting the blockade of Leningrad, and a document on the offensive dated January 11, 1943. The agency also showed the layout of the enemy troops.
It follows from the documents that the initial goal was to liberate the city by the end of January, for this the strike groups of the Red Army were strengthened in this direction, reserves were attracted, combat training was carried out, and then the transition to the next stage was carried out.
"The troops of the 67th Army go on a decisive offensive, defeat the opposing enemy grouping and join forces with the troops of the Volkhov Front, who are fighting towards us, and thereby break the siege of the city of Leningrad ", - such a task was set for the fighters.
The order was met with enthusiasm, follows from the documents. The words of the Red Army soldier Martussin were published , who expressed confidence that "the Germans will not resist for anything " and " it's time to beat him and drive him near Leningrad ."
The excerpts also report on the heroic deed of the junior commander of one of the units of the 342nd Infantry Regiment of the 136th Infantry Division Sokolin , who continued to command the calculation after he was seriously wounded. The signalman of the 270th Infantry Regiment of the 136th Infantry Division Molodtsov , with his body and at the cost of his life, prevented the advance of the Germans and thereby helped the troops to capture a heavy 305-mm German battery.
“ I still can’t forget the impressions of the destructive fire of Russian cannons ”, “ I have never seen such crushing fire ”, “ The effect of the “Stalinist organ” (meaning “Katyusha” - approx. Ministry of Defense) is equal to the effect of a six-barreled mortar "- later admitted the German soldiers who participated in the blockade of Leningrad.
As REGNUM reported , many memorial and mourning events will be held in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region on January 18, 2023, on the day of the 80th anniversary of the breaking of the blockade of Leningrad. On this day in 1943, during fierce battles with the Nazi invaders near the southern shore of Lake Ladoga, the troops of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts joined, breaking the deadly ring around Leningrad.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Both schoolchildren and employees of enterprises are actively involved in the destruction of Russian books. And the Ukrainian authorities report on the massive "utilization" of books by Pushkin, Lermontov and Tolstoy. Details in the material of the correspondent of IA REGNUM.
—Do you have Russian books? - a teenager asks rather unceremoniously, calling on the intercom to the first apartment that came across in the entrance of one of the sleeping areas of Kyiv.
Having received an affirmative answer, he calls his three comrades with a gesture.
We collect waste paper. All kinds of Muscovites there. Yes, Pushkin! Or someone else, for some reason, he explains in Russian to the dumbfounded local resident. - Give us at least five or six books that you no longer need.
Waste paper collectors proudly announce that their action will now be permanent.
“If we donate [for recycling] 100 kilograms of books in Russian, our class will go on an excursion to Ternopil,” says the smallest of the “couriers”. On the proposal to take cardboard boxes as raw materials for recycling, the children respond with a categorical refusal. "Let's go to the library," they say.
What these children and thousands of other activists across Ukraine will be doing in libraries is not hard to guess. Today, Russian-language publications are massively withdrawn from the library collections in the territory from Uzhgorod to the part of Donbass controlled by the official Kyiv. And not only Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky or Bunin. Dumas, Flaubert, Sartre, Scott, Hemingway and other Western authors go under the knife, as they are published in translation into Russian.
“Books are now taken away from us not only by children who are promised some kind of trip there,” said Natalia (name changed) from the book depository from the Chernihiv region in a confidential conversation with a REGNUM correspondent. - People in camouflage uniforms come, some of them with machine guns. They say give away the Russian junk, no one will read it anyway.”
According to Natalia, she personally managed to save the rare editions of Yesenin, Akhmatova and Balmont, which were in the funds, as well as the complete works of Lermontov - the woman simply “stole” them and took them home. “Yes, now they are at my house. But it's better than being disposed of or even burned."
The librarian knows what he's talking about. As part of the so-called "patriotic actions" in the same Chernihiv region, as well as neighboring Sumy and Kyiv regions, hundreds of copies of works of Russian and foreign classics have already been burned. The so-called "volunteers" from the screens of local TV and on the radio report on the surrender of "several hundred tons of enemy literature."
“All the money raised from such disposal will go to the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the organizers of the events guarantee. At the same time, as it became known to a REGNUM correspondent from a source in the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, to date, not a single "utilization" penny has been received on the accounts of the Ukrainian army.
In Zhytomyr, the manager of a large enterprise demanded that employees bring three books in Russian “for burning”, and in Vinnitsa, workers at one of the stores were forced to turn in five of any relevant publications for waste paper under the threat of deprivation of bonuses.
It seems that the Ukrainian "patriots" do not care who is the author of this or that work - it gets into the "black lists" by definition if it is written in Russian or translated into Russian. At the same time, even editions of notes with explanations in Russian can now end up in waste paper.
As noted by the Minister of Culture of Ukraine Alexander Tkachenko, in the near future local publishing houses will publish "hundreds of works by Ukrainian patriotic authors." “We will fill this niche,” the minister said pointedly.
Already filling. Today, the shelves of a few bookstores in Ukraine are full of novels and stories about "Ukrainian heroes of Donbass", pseudo-documentary investigations into the so-called famine of 1932-1933, as well as the archives of Stepan Bandera. From modern authors, the reader is offered the prose of the radical nationalist Irina Nitsoy and the poetry of unknown Lviv and Ternopil writers. A separate place on the shelves is occupied by the works of Polish, Lithuanian and Latvian authors translated into Ukrainian.
Meanwhile, the lists of Ukrainian kindergartens subject to immediate withdrawal from the storerooms included high-quality illustrated books "Kolobok", "Turnip" and "Humpbacked Horse". And for some reason, the fables of Leonid Glebov, who was once considered a talented Ukrainian children's writer.
Oh, right, Ukraine has a very strong neo-Nazi presence. They're so trustworthy, we're even giving them heavy weapons and training them. Certainly this will come back to bite us in the ass in future years like it did in so many other places. Nothing to see here, move along.
Posted by: Herman Hapsburg8987 ||
01/18/2023 0:03 Comments ||
Top||
#2
You know who else burned books? The Communists, who are still remembered fondly in Russia. Do you remember the Communists of the Soviet Union fondly, Herman Hapsburg8987?
Both the Nazis and the Communists were socialists: the former were national socialists, the latter were international socialists, but both were totalitarian, expansionist, vicious, and vile. For those who belonged to the wrong categories in the area under their rule, they were equally deadly.
#4
Too right, Besoeker. Start with destroying classes of books, end with destroying classes of people.
The Soviets weren’t keen on Jews, either.
I see nothing to prefer in the choice between Communists and Nazis. Given the well-publicized history of each, I am forced to conclude those who try to turn me against the Ukraine or anyone else on the basis of NAZIS!!!!!!11!!! are either fools or trying to manipulate.
There is still plenty to realistically dislike about Ukraine. Ditto Russia. But stupid propaganda does not persuade here.
#5
Sure, the Red Army may have liberated Auschwitz, but there are accounts of the Soviets waiting on the other side of the river while the Nazis polished off the Warsaw Ghetto.
#6
I never thought in a million years that Jews would be taking the side of Nazis. And telling us that failing to punch Nazis in the face for literally burning books is being manipulative.
But here it is. This is clown world.
Posted by: Herman Hapsburg8987 ||
01/18/2023 5:25 Comments ||
Top||
#7
Posted by: Herman Hapsburg8987 ||
01/18/2023 5:35 Comments ||
Top||
#8
Were the Ukrainians burning Russian books before they were invaded? War on your motherland has a way of changing things.
#10
TW - Is it the communists that are remembered fondly or is it the perception of the stability the communists brought?
Having spoken to many russians - I have met more americans who identify w/ commies and socialists than russians. The russians I met, were not fans of the soviets or commies, but were fans of the stability times, of the commies, especially when compared to the Yelsin Era.
So the question is: are people conflating russia's memory of a more stable time, maybe a time when the country had more clout on the international stage - conflating a better time with a nostalgia for commies?
Because when I talk to russians, they dont have nice things to say about the commies and soviets, in contrast to the positive things they say about the period.
#11
Hmmm. "Stability." "You will own nothing and be happy."
I guess, in a relative way...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/18/2023 13:02 Comments ||
Top||
#12
We're so technologically advanced here in the West these days that we've taken censorship to a whole new level. We don't need to burn books anymore.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
01/18/2023 15:27 Comments ||
Top||
#13
Is it the communists that are remembered fondly or is it the perception of the stability the communists brought?
Some look back fondly on Stalin, mossomo, or so it has been reported over the years. For others, it is the life under
Communism.
A Bangladeshi PhD engineer who reported to Mr. Wife as part of the team that opened up Eastern Europe for the big consumer product company after the Berlin
Wall fell brought his tall, blond Russian wife to our house for dinner shortly after he joined the company. She was a brilliant engineer in her own right, the child of an engineer and a scientist; they’d met at Moscow University, where they were classmates. Over dinner she recalled fondly her life before Gorbachov, when the family spent summers and holidays in their dacha in the Russian countryside, and there was none of the hurly-burly capitalism that had everyone competing against each other instead of working together to make things happen. I assumed, based in that conversation, that her parents had been midlevel members of the Communist Party, back when such things mattered. She was not political herself, as far as I was aware, being absorbed in her research and rearing children.
Well, yes. Jewish culture demands looking beyond and beneath surface appearances to discover the essence and the meaning. Thus we look beyond the current name calling to discover that there are white supremacists in both Russia and the Ukraine, there are fascists in both Russia and the Ukraine, there are nationalists in both Russia and the Ukraine. And that even after the Donbas war of 2014-15 that we followed so closely here, the nationalist white supremacists of Russia and the Ukraine (and to the west through Europe all the way to America) hung out together, trained together, and exchanged information about how to achieve their common goals.
So when you screech about Ukrainian Nazis, Herman Hapsburg8987, I’m afraid we cannot take what you say on the subject seriously.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] Drone flying over Maryinka. The scale of destruction during many months of fierce battles for the city turned into a continuous fortified area is clearly visible.
Destruction at the level of Popasnaya.
According to the leadership of the DPR, the battles for Maryinka are approaching the finale - the enemy is gradually being pushed back to the western outskirts of the city.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] 1. According to Medvedchuk and his opuses. Medvedchuk has been a broken card since 2014. In fact, he has nothing to show - all his projects failed as expected. Where are the victories of the “grey eminence” that have given at least some result? Nothing serious can be built around him - this is a fully played card. The best way to block and fail the creation of any effective structures in the Ukrainian direction is to involve Medvedchuk in this work. This was evident in 2014. It is even more obvious now. You see any project with Medvedchuk, you know - everything will end with another hat. With the same success, you can try to mold something around Yanukovych.
2. Concerning talks for another wave of mobilization. In my opinion, it will be, at least as a response to the ongoing mobilization in Ukraine. Taking into account the need to expand contingents in the north-west of the Russian Federation (a conflict with NATO is quite likely), in Belarus, the formation of new districts and all this, if necessary, to increase the size of the group in Ukraine (at least in order to prevent disparity in numbers), it seems very likely that medium term additional mobilization.
Actually, everything here depends on the General Staff, the Kremlin made it clear earlier that in its decision they will rely on the opinion of the General Staff, which will affect the potential timing and size of mobilization. Various stuffing, especially from the West on this topic, seem to be attempts to probe the plans and intentions of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces,
3. Well, Pushilin has already spoken about beards In my opinion, order in the army is, of course, necessary, but the main thing here is that it be reasonable. As for cars, it is worth remembering that similar processes of taking away private vehicles from the military took place in the DPR and LPR in 2014-2015, when a campaign was held in the republics to return requisitioned cars. You don’t think that all private vehicles in the NVO zone were bought by volunteers or with the money of fighters? Nobody canceled the use of requisitioned cars either. In the current realities of the needs of the front - until the logistics supply ensures the filling of staff for equipment, the use of civilian vehicles is inevitable.
Otherwise, it's just a reduction in the motorization of the parts.
According to beards at the front, about a quarter of the friends and acquaintances of those who howl at the front wear beards. Some are permanent, some returning on a visit - shave off. I never thought it could be a problem at all. Well, on the tablets, and so everything is clear. Until there is a full-time control complex, civilian gadgets will be used with all the risks associated with them.
Sounds to me like the first of Valery Vasilevich's orders just came down, and they deal with hygiene.
[KP] Voenkor Alexander Kots spoke about the rumors about the ban on wearing a beard in the Russian army
by Alexander Kots
Heard a story here the other day . As if individuals from the leadership of one of the military districts of a huge country, which has been conducting heavy military operations for almost a year, set out to bring the troops entrusted to him to good looks. And for the sake of this, they raided the front lines of the special operation with inspections. And there, dear mother, the fighters are dressed in whatever they want, there are no waffle towels in the dugouts, the soldiers are not all shaved, they draw some kind of maps in smartphones and rush between positions in civilian cars at breakneck speed.
Angry, they say evil tongues, the authorities did not appreciate the liberty of interpreting the Charter and ordered the servicemen to no longer wear beards, look only at paper maps or in push-button phones, and civilian cars, donated by good people and volunteers, put on military records, without which to drive SUVs henceforth prohibited.
They took under the visor who was supposed to, and well, let's gut people tired of fighting at checkpoints and border crossings. And what to do - such work, order. "Where is your VKPO?" - they stick to the servicemen at the checkpoint.
And he, the All-Season Field Uniform Set, has not been seen in the eyes since the beginning of the NWO. Why is our right something worse? “What do you need a tablet for? Have you heard about the ban on the use of gadgets with advanced multimedia capabilities? So after all, you can’t launch a copter with a field phone. And so the nerves are exhausted that you come to the front line upset. And then there’s a volunteer pickup truck, to which you attached a mortar, they strive to take away: “Where are your black numbers?”
Such tales are now roaming the Internet and telegram channels and excite honored fighting people. Well, how will some big boss take away a car with black numbers? And how did they annoy their beards there in Moscow? They do not undermine the defense. And offensive functions are influenced purely positively, they give courage. After all, warmer with a beard, not the month of March.
And I think it's all stories. After all, the real command, first of all, should not think about facial hair, but about how to provide units on the front line with reconnaissance equipment, communications, drones, sniper systems, thermal imagers, vehicles with increased cross-country ability, normal hot food and mobile baths so that a beard can be was to trim and wash. And then all the same evil tongues say that in other positions people didn’t sniff shampoo for a month.
But seriously, order, of course, is needed in the army. Including in the field of transport. But if a car is already registered for a reconnaissance or UAV operator and it is not a pity for him to perform tasks on personal transport, then why should he interfere with this. It is better to help with fuel, which they often take at their own expense.
And talking about beards on the front lines is somehow embarrassing. Let's start, for example, with Akhmat. Or can we better decide: should we fight or shave our beards?
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KP] Military correspondent KP.RU Dmitry Steshin returned to his small Motherland, to Donetsk, which became his native city, in defiance of the enemy, living under shelling and without water. Living is the key word here
by Dmitry Steshin
It is indecent to travel to Donetsk in an empty car. Mine was loaded under the roof, I stuffed the last packages, pressing with my knee. The sniper "Moskva" is returning to the front with me, he was released for a few days into a peaceful life for quadrocopters with thermal imagers - good conscientious people bought him. They also bought special capes for snipers that hide from thermal imagers, heated vests powered by power banks, first aid kits and many, many necessary goods, including warming masala tea and Alenka chocolate.
The wife of my colleague, a KP special correspondent, knitted 10 pairs of woolen socks over the holidays and put a pack of good cigarettes in each. I'm bringing ... soap. My brother is a soap maker, he has a serious production - under 100 thousand units of products per month. My brother made a special antiseptic coniferous soap for the medical unit of the Vostok battalion. Therefore, the car smells strongly of a pine forest on a hot summer day.
Tatyana from Gomel, a listener of my stream on the KP website, handed over a 12-kilogram box of condensed milk for scout Lis and his unit to sweeten the lives of the guys, and two devices for treating colds, the main problem of winter trenches. The devices are made in Belarus, not in China, and this fact makes me a little offended.
The border with the DPR is now administrative. He opened three doors at the car, the customs officer randomly poked at the green bag: “What is this?”. There were my personal things. They didn’t open it, they took our word for it, and we drove on – five minutes of crossing the border is the record of my last nine years in Donbass.
LIFE IN FACT
“You don’t recognize the city,” “Moscow” explained to me on the way," he got it in the last month.
"Moskva" did not often get out to Donetsk from the front line, but he tracked the changes. They are visible. Sunday, but the roads are empty. Revival only near hypermarkets. The center, its main geographical coordinate - Pushkin Boulevard, has died out. In the center of the boulevard, along the alleys, people try not to walk, they huddle against the walls. The yard of the house where I now settled was always full of cars. "Golden Mile" of Donetsk, offices around. But, after another series of shelling of the center, all the clerks, by decree of the acting. The heads of the DPR were transferred to remote work, and the wealthy residents of the city left on their own. And, as it turns out, I arrived.
- They gave me for the holidays, - the landlord tells me, my old friend, from the age of 14. Rostislav proudly remarks:
But you will have water. And the washing machine will work both the toilet and the shower.
I don't believe yet. How? But, the kitchen has a fantastic design. Half-ton plastic water tank. An electric pump was hidden under the kitchen table, and polypropylene pipes were separated from it around the apartment.
- Where does the water in the tank come from?
- I drove a car with a tank onto the sidewalk, stretched the hose through the window. By the way, the water is not potable. She's decontaminated, and nothing more. You can wash. If you save, it will take two or three palms a day (shows the level on the tank).
I am experiencing a cultural and technical shock and at the same time proud of the unbending fellow countrymen. I touch the batteries, they are hot. Already good.
In parting, I tell Rostislav the good news. The entire border area near Uspenka is packed with trucks - they are transporting pipes of a meter diameter for a water conduit. From the side of the DNR - the same thing. A frame for a huge pumping station has already been installed, and they are working even on Sundays. There will be water!
The face of my interlocutor is impenetrable. Donetsk, they perceive any changes only after the fact. I think this is a consequence of life in the city, where a shell can fly to any corner, every second. Reality corrected the perception of the world. And nine years is enough for a flashing. Until the shell arrives, we live. Arrived, so lucky. Or not.
DUTY "RELATIVE"
I don't stay at the Center. I throw things in the apartment in order to at least slightly lighten the overloaded car. Ahead is the fierce impassability of the advanced, I hope it froze. Twenty minutes drive around the city, a familiar forest plantation, carefully crawling along the frozen tank ruts and getting a mortar shot literally over my ear. I sigh
- Again darling almost happened. As soon as I don’t come to you, in this forest plantation, a mortar shoots into my ear.
Moscow laughs:
- Not only you! According to my many months of observations, they are specially waiting for the car to leave.
But, the mortar hits and hits. "Moscow" is quickly unloading, I see that in a hurry. Nobody helps him - the guys are in positions. Tells me to turn the car around. I ask:
- Where is the mortar hitting?
- According to the fur farm in Maryinka. You go, go, don't stay here.
Grad is connected to the mortar and it dawns on me that there is nothing to do here without special need. We hurriedly say goodbye. Grad is the BM-21 122mm rocket artillery launcher. Grad translates into the word hail.
In the yard I hide the car under the wall of the house and go to the store. I gave two thousand rubles, but I did not understand what I bought with them. A piece of sausage, a piece of cheese, two homemade pizzas, milk, bread and some small things. Drinking water. Prices are higher than in Moscow, and I sincerely don’t understand why they didn’t sink with the removal of borders. Nobody understands. We can say that this is a rhetorical question from all fellow countrymen from the Donbass.
"REVENGE FOR EVERYTHING"
In the morning I woke up from arrivals, the house shook. Automatically I look at the clock - 8.40 in the morning.
Presumably, "Himers", several pieces, ended up in a shopping center on Ilyich Avenue. This avenue is the busiest highway at the entrance to Donetsk, there are even traffic jams on it. The Armed Forces of Ukraine chose this time not by chance. I quickly get up and leave. Ten minutes drive, everything is nearby. Only one outer wall remained of the mall.
A mangled, dusty Korean SUV. Nearby is an aged man, with a bandaged head, already dried blood clots on the sweater - it was cut with glasses. I ask the most important
- The engine is intact?
- Target, target. It even starts up.
There is not much to tell my namesake. Retired military, by age and health. I was driving to work, there was a flash, the car was crushed, but it did not turn over. Dmitry believes that Ukraine is taking revenge on Donetsk. For all. For the fact that I once rebelled, for Soledar, for arriving at a high-rise building in Dnepropetrovsk. Although it's not our fault, who cares on the other side of the front line? "Revenge" is the common opinion of all who have gathered near these smoking ruins.
A woman approaches us. My name is Elena, systems engineer, retired.
- Do you see the Press store? I had a friend who worked there. But, a friend has a day off today, and her shift was late for work. And she saved herself and saved people - they usually open at 8 in the morning. The second birthday, what can I say ... But the "Pharmacy" was not lucky.
As Muscovites talk about the weather, we discuss shelling. The Kalininsky district was shelled only in 1914, then a long break until December last year, when the Armed Forces of Ukraine designated the Kalinin hospital as a target. Firefighters pour water over rubble. “Silence mode” has already been announced several times, but no one has responded. On the dirty roadside are the relatives of the missing girl, she was definitely in the building. I don’t even go up to them, I don’t have any strength to torture these people. Especially when there is still hope.
Jon Gabriel is brother to Rantburg’s own ryuge, who nowadays can be seen posting on Twitter as @0ryuge on the War on Terror, the culture war, politics, and whatever else catches his eye. Jon opens with this:
[Ricochet] Russia has always befuddled Western analysts, a fact best summed up by Winston Churchill who said the multicontinental colossus is “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” More recently, “experts” wondered why Putin was pushing forces to Ukraine’s border, then why he launched such a massive attack, and now why on earth he’s reducing cities to rubble and pushing civilians into mass graves.
Studying Russian history and culture over the past few years has given me inklings into the “Russian mind” but I’ve only scratched the surface. Thankfully, Martti J. Kari has far more insight. Kari is a former Finnish intelligence colonel and currently teaches cybersecurity at the University of Jyväskylä. (Oh, how I love Finnish names.)
In today’s “I support the current thing” social-media hot-take factory, attempting to understand one’s adversaries is equated to sympathizing with them. They won’t learn much from Professor Kari because they’re unteachable. But if you know your military history, you can be assured that Finns are not sentimental about the Bear on their border. (Full disclosure: As a Finnish American, I share this skepticism.)
I ran across a lecture Kari gave in 2018 which is the best analysis I’ve found on Russia’s attitude toward geopolitics. Unfortunately, it is in Finnish, and the English version is performed by a text-to-talk robot, making it tough going. So I’ve gathered the best bits from his hour-long talk into a readable format. It is quite long but well worth the read.
As we wonder how best to end the nightmare in Ukraine and prevent Putin from moving further west, understanding his mindset is the first step. Please note that I have slightly edited the transcript for clarity and brevity. All content belongs to Kari and any translation errors belong to me and Google. (Visit his video links and give him several likes!) Take it away, Martti…
#2
From the Polish border to Moscow, through to the Urals, is a plateau that is easy to attack with both horses and tanks. That is what has been done. Napoleon attacked, the Germans attacked, and so on. That idea is also in the genetic inheritance of the Russians, that someone is always attacking. “We will be conquered.” They have no shelter, no mountains, no rivers. There are no lakes between the east and the capital. Geographically, Russia has always been easy to conquer, which also influences their thinking.
It is true that Russia has been attacked many, many times and that kind of experience will affect one's thinking. But there is, in fact, a formidable geographic problem for would-be conquerors which is the vast distance between Moscow and anyone who is thinking about attacking. Napoleon and Hitler both learned that the hard way. In both cases, the Russian army performed extremely poorly in the opening phases of the invasion. But they persisted and ultimately prevailed. Biden should think about that. It can safely be assumed that Russians would like to maintain as much distance as possible between themselves and the hostile forces beyond their borders, especially since their military is so pathetic.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
01/18/2023 12:04 Comments ||
Top||
#3
A vast percentage of Russians get all their information from television. These television channels are under the control of Putin and his close associates. Therefore, Russians receive filtered information. They do not get the facts from the media.
So, kinda like American mainstream media, huh? A different point of view but the same lack of truth.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
01/18/2023 12:19 Comments ||
Top||
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.
Unfortunately, the similarities do not end with books....or borders. 
