Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozin in italics:
[ColonelCassad] France continues to notably burn out from what is happening in Africa, where the French neo-colonial empire that existed for several decades is collapsing, from which the Central African Republic, Mali and Burkina Faso have dropped out over the past few years.
French Foreign Ministry accuses Russia of conducting neo-colonial policy in Africa
The French Foreign Ministry responded to the words of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, that Moscow is not interested in the opinion of Paris on the development of its relations with African countries. The agency criticized her statement, accusing Russia of pursuing a neo-colonial policy in Africa, RIA Novosti reported.
“Today, what we are seeing in Africa is the conduct of a neo-colonial policy by Russia,” the French Foreign Ministry said, adding that this approach is allegedly aimed at calling into question the sovereignty of the states in the region.
Earlier it became known that Russia wanted to resume flights to a number of countries in Africa and Asia - domestic carriers were urged to consider organizing direct flights to destinations inaccessible to Russians due to Western sanctions.
Of course, when France placed puppet presidents in the countries of the region, deployed troops and supported military coups in its favor, this was not a neo-colonial policy in dependent countries.Unlike France, Russia has never had colonies in Africa. On the contrary, the USSR, and now the Russian Federation, help the former colonies to gain real independence from the former colonizers.
It is high time to raise the question of the liberation of Niger from the heels of the French colonialists, who appropriate the local uranium.
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As a starter, and for a history of French involvement, one cannot do better that Claude Wauthier's "Quatre Presidents et l'Afrique: De Gaulle, Pompidou, Giscard d'Estaing, Mitterand"
The Russian Federation does not abandon its intentions to destroy the critical infrastructure of our state, continues to strike civilian objects and homes of the civilian population.
This was announced on Facebook by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the morning of the 345th day of the large-scale Russian invasion.
Over the past day, the enemy launched 4 rocket attacks, two of which hit the civilian infrastructure of the city of Kramatorsk , Donetsk region, as well as five air strikes. He carried out more than 70 attacks from rocket salvo systems on civilian objects in Kherson region and Mykolaiv region. Civilians were killed and wounded by enemy strikes.
The threat of further Russian air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine remains high.
The enemy, suffering heavy losses, does not stop offensive operations in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Novopavliv directions.
Over the past 24 hours, units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhivka, Nevske and Bilogorivka in Luhansk region and Verkhnyokamianske, Mykolaivka, Krasna Gora, Paraskoviivka, Bakhmut, Ivanivske and Kurdyumivka in Donetsk region.
In the Volyn, Poliske, Siversk and Slobozhansk directions, the situation has stabilized, no signs of the formation of offensive groups of the enemy have been detected. The occupiers shelled the districts of Klyusy, Gremyach and Yeliny of the Chernihiv region; Murawayny, Tovstodubovoy, Studenko, Katerynivka, Vovkivka and Volfyny in Sumy Oblast and Veterinary, Kozacha Lopan, Strelecha, Glyboky, Zeleny, Staritsa, Okhirtsevo, Gatysh, Vovchansk, Vovchansky Khutori, Okhrimivka and Novomlynsk in Kharkiv Oblast.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy shelled the areas of the settlements of Dvorichna, Golubivka, Kupyansk, Kucherivka, Kislivka and Kotlyarivka in the Kharkiv region and Novoselivske and Stelmakhivka in the Luhansk region.
Terny, Makiivka, Chervonopivka, Dibrova and Torske in the Luhansk region were shelled in the Lymansky direction.
In the direction of Bakhmut, Spirne, Bilogorivka, Paraskoviivka, Vesele, Bakhmut and Ivanivske of the Donetsk region were affected by fire.
On the Avdiivskyi direction , Avdiivka, Tonenke, Vesele, Severne, Vodyane, Pervomaiske, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka, Georgiivka, Maryinka, Pobyeda, and Novomykhailivka came under enemy fire.
In the direction of Novopavlivsk, the occupiers shelled Bogoyavlenka, Vugledar, Prechistivka, Velika Novosilka, and Neskuchne in the Donetsk region.
In the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions , areas of more than 40 settlements were shelled by mortars, barrel and rocket artillery. Among them are Vremivka of Donetsk region; Gulyaipilske and Kamianske in Zaporizhzhia, as well as Kherson, Zolota Balka, Mykhailivka, Havrylivka, Mylove, Burgunka, Novotyaginka and Kizomys in the Kherson region.
During the past 24 hours, the Air Force of the Defense Forces carried out 4 strikes on areas of concentration of the occupiers. Our defenders also destroyed a Russian UAV of the "Merlin" type. And units of rocket troops and artillery hit the control post, 3 areas of concentration of manpower and the enemy's ammunition depot.
As a reminder, The New York Times, citing data from American and European officials, notes that the number of killed and wounded Russian soldiers in Ukraine is approaching 200,000.
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200,000 garbage, 8 to 1 ratio in favor of Russia. "further Russian air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine remains high" OH, they were supposed to run out of rockets. Human wave lie didn't catch on I guess. The big push is yet to come.
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There are actual videos of the human waves they are using and the Wagner head has said they are using the prisoners as a human wave tactic.
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All those convicted criminals killed in a human wave attack won’t need to be housed, fed, and guarded after they return home and resume former habits. And the ones that do survive will get to play that lottery again and again while learning useful skills. All sorts of wins from the Russian perspective.
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[Korrespondent] 22:40 Canada has imposed sanctions against the media group Russia Today, as well as against the deputy editor-in-chief of the media group Dmitry Gornostaev and a number of journalists. In addition, the new sanctions list includes artists, including Nikolai Baskov, Oleg Gazmanov, Alexander Marshal, Polina Gagarina, Nadezhda Babkina and others.
22:08 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with CNN that he might consider providing military assistance to Ukraine. About how realistic this is - in the material Iron Dome for Ukraine .
21:42 The Ukraine-EU summit ended in Kiev, in which our country for the first time took part in the status of a candidate for joining the European Union. As part of the meeting, President Volodymyr Zelensky held talks with the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. Read more in the material Outcomes of the EU-Ukraine Summit .
21:36 In Izyum, Kharkiv region, seven teenagers found a fragment of an anti-personnel mine "petal" - all the children received shrapnel wounds, five of them were hospitalized, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
20:30 Zelensky said in an evening video message that Ukraine will achieve its European goals: “Today, I felt very confident in this - during the summit. We are already talking as members of the European community. And we are working to fix this de jure. There is an understanding that negotiations on Ukraine's membership in the European Union can begin this year.There is an understanding by the partners that this year, as in the past, they must invariably strengthen defense support for our state and pressure on Russia.We are preparing for even greater integration of Ukraine into the internal EU market - these are large incomes of Ukrainian companies, more production and jobs in our country, these are incomes of the state and local budgets.
19:44 The new package of military assistance to Ukraine will include long-range GLSDB projectiles , Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder said. He added that the United States leaves it up to Kyiv to use long-range projectiles to strike at Crimea.
The new package will include:
19:23 Permanent representatives of the EU countries have agreed on a price ceiling for Russian oil products, the Swedish presidency of the EU Council reports. The countries agreed on a price ceiling of $100 per barrel of oil products from the Russian Federation traded at a premium, and $45 per barrel traded at a discount. The European Commission announced that the EU is introducing a price ceiling for Russian oil products together with the G7.
19:18 The Pentagon announced the allocation of a new $ 2.2 billion military assistance package to Ukraine , which will include, in particular, air defense systems, Javelin anti-tank missiles, artillery ammunition, as well as conventional and long-range missiles for HIMARS.
19:15 The European Union supports the Ukrainian formula of peace and will work on the implementation of ten points of this initiative, European Council President Charles Michel said following the 24th Ukraine-EU summit: "The EU and Ukraine have a common goal - to end this war, which will be based on respect sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. And that is why we support the Ukrainian formula for peace. We will work together with you, with Ukraine, to implement the ten points, as well as the summit on the initiative ... There will be no secure and independent Europe without a secure and independent Ukraine" .
19:13 The process of joining the EU takes different time for each country, there is no clear time frame, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said following the Ukraine-EU summit: "This is a process that should be beneficial to everyone. There is no clear time frame, but there is the goals that the candidate member needs to achieve. And after that, the accession negotiations and the accession itself begin ... It all depends on how the candidate country is moving. I am deeply impressed, and I want to note the quality and speed with which you provide the result. It's phenomenal."
19:08 Zelensky said that if Western partners accelerate the supply of long-range weapons, Ukraine will begin to liberate the territories of Donbass seized in 2014: "If weapons, namely long-range weapons, are accelerated, we will not only not move away from Bakhmut, we will begin to de-occupy Donbass, which has been occupied since 2014. We have a clear position on what we need."
19:07 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine warns of the high danger of Russian air and missile strikes throughout Ukraine. The enemy continues to conduct offensive operations in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Novopavlovsky directions, suffers heavy losses in personnel and military equipment.
To make up for their losses in manpower, the enemy continues a recruitment campaign among prisoners. Over the past week, up to 1,000 mercenaries have been recruited in correctional institutions of the Novosibirsk region of the Russian Federation.
19:03 The mayor of Slavyansk Vadim Lyakh said that the front line is "slowly, but approaching", and called on local residents to evacuate: "Already knowing from the experience of the summer period of the enemy's offensive operations, the closer the front line is, the more shelling will be, the frequency will increase , and, accordingly, the danger will also grow.
18:50 The European Commission allocates 1 billion euros to Ukraine for the restoration of schools and medical institutions, Ursula von der Leyen said. She also announced the tenth package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, which will cost the aggressor country 10 billion euros - it will affect technology and circumvention of sanctions.
18:32 Following the Ukraine-EU summit, Brussels agreed to provide Ukraine with an interim assessment of the fulfillment of the seven criteria received with the status of a candidate. Previously, the EU insisted that the assessment to be given to Ukraine would appear only in the autumn, which made it impossible to start accession negotiations in 2023. Now the EU has agreed to put the so-called oral report on paper and officially hand it over to Ukraine in the spring.
Zelenskiy said it was Ukraine's goal to start EU membership talks in 2023.
18:26 Estonian Ambassador to Ukraine Kaimo Kuusk and Deputy of the Estonian Parliament Marko Mihkelson, during a meeting with the head of the State Special Communications Service Yuriy Shchigol, handed over nine drones from Estonians to the Ukrainian Army of drones.
18:19 President of the European Council Charles Michel said following the Ukraine-EU summit that the European Union is not afraid of Russia, and the Ukrainian people have chosen freedom and democracy, so the future of Ukraine is with the EU: "We are here with a clear message about two things. The first is a message to the people of Ukraine: The EU will support you with all it can, for as long as it takes. My second message is Ukraine's future with the European Union."
He also stressed that the reform of the courts and the fight against corruption are fundamental conditions for Ukraine's accession to the EU. According to him, over the next months, the European Commission will present reports that will indicate to Ukraine what additional steps it needs to take on its way to the EU.
18:15 Ukrainian tank crews will begin training in Poland in a few days, Polish Minister of Defense Mariusz Blashak said during a joint press conference with Reznikov.
17:51 About 30,000 occupiers are concentrated in Mariupol and the region, Piotr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of the city, said. According to him, in the last week alone, the military corps of the invaders has increased by 10-15 thousand people. Most of them are stationed in the Mariupol region in the villages according to the tactics of a human shield. In addition, a new unit of Kadyrovites in the amount of 2-3 thousand people entered one of the coastal villages. “Perhaps this is the formation of a detachment for a potential offensive, because, according to our information, no major actions of the Russian Guard are planned either in Mariupol or in the region,” the adviser added.
Active movement of equipment is carried out at night, the enemy is trying to bypass Mariupol. As a result, one gets the impression of actively completing the formation of reserves to continue the attack on Ugledar, Andryushenko noted. The military occupiers themselves are quite talkative with the locals and report on the priority of the attack on Vuhledar and Zaporozhye.
17:29 The Russians today fired at Toretsk, Donetsk region, from Gradov, as a result of which one person was killed, six were injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General said. Three more people were wounded as a result of enemy shelling in Kurakhovka, Pokrovsky district.
17:02 Zelensky said at a press conference following the Ukraine-EU summit that there is no talk of surrendering Bakhmut: " No one will surrender Bakhmut. We will fight as much as we can."
16:52 The SBU exposed officials of the Ministry of Defense for embezzlement of budget money in the amount of more than 5 million hryvnias during the construction of barracks for the military on the territory of the Nikolaev garrison. The former head of the Main Apartment and Maintenance Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a senior officer of the department for technical supervision of construction are involved in the scheme.
16:43 Adviser to the Deputy Minister of Defense was informed of suspicion of embezzlement of 1.7 billion hryvnias in purchases for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Police reported. During the war, he entered into an agreement with a private company. Having received the money, the company missed the deadlines and did not deliver part of the goods. Now the official faces up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
Earlier in this case, suspicion was reported to the director of the company and two other defendants. More than 55 million hryvnias and corporate rights of defendants in the amount of more than 50 million dollars were also seized.
16:32 Netanyahu, during negotiations with Macron, said that Israel is ready to transfer "military means" to Ukraine, writes The Times of Israel, citing an official familiar with the details of the conversation. At the same time, the Israeli prime minister added that he intended "not to go too far" so as not to provoke Russia.
16:27 As an alternative to mobilization, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine began to form the Offensive Guard. We are now recruiting volunteers. More details - in the material New Guard from the Ministry of Internal Affairs .
16:23 Polish Minister of Sports Kamil Bortnichuk said that 40 countries would oppose Russia's participation in the 2024 Olympics. The National Olympic Committee, in turn, confirmed that Ukraine will boycott if Russia and Belarus are admitted.
15:58 Germany is negotiating with Sweden on the supply of IRIS-T launchers for Ukraine, Bloomberg writes, citing its sources. According to them, in addition to launchers, Germany also asked Sweden to transfer missiles for them. Thus, according to Bloomberg, Berlin is sticking to its plan to send three additional IRIS-T systems this year after the first batch arrived in Ukraine in October.
15:54 The Ministry of Internal Affairs revealed the details of the formation of assault brigades of the Offensive Guard for the liberation of Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea. So, five assault brigades are being created on the basis of the National Guard - Bureviy, Chervona Kalina, Kara-Dag, Rubezh and Spartan. The Azov Regiment is being expanded into a brigade.
In the State Border Service, an assault brigade of the Steel Border is being created, and in the National Police - a brigade of Lyut. All teams are formed exclusively from highly motivated volunteers. He will not perform any rear tasks - "only high-quality training, constant training and participation in operations on the front line," the Ministry of Internal Affairs noted.
15:47 The Russians are introducing total control in Mariupol, said the adviser to the mayor of the city, Petr Andryushchenko. In particular, for two days in a row there is a sweep in the villages near Mariupol in the direction to the north, where the occupiers are stationed. The FSB conducts house-to-house visits with searches, checking correspondence and gadgets. In with. Pavlopol came to checking the phones of first-graders at school.
In the occupation administrations of Mariupol, equipment is being installed to fully control the Internet traffic of employees and visitors. Deployment and configuration should be completed within four weeks. Full control of all gadgets and their traffic is also carried out. The reason is an attempt to overcome the constant leakage of information.
Andryushchenko also clarified that the explosions that were heard in Mariupol on February 2 were in two places: Port City, where several trucks with ammunition were delivered on January 29, and also in the fields outside the city there was "smoke" in the area of another training ground with a large concentration of invaders and equipment. According to Andryushchenko, all messages in local chats about these explosions have been cleared, the occupiers themselves are silent.
15:39 "Head" of Crimea Sergei Aksyonov said that all funds from the sale of the "nationalized" property of Ukrainian businessmen on the occupied peninsula will be used to equip participants in the "special operation".
15:26 The Russians are trying to surround Ugledar from two sides. They managed to advance in the vicinity for a short time, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine threw them back to their previous positions, deputy mayor of the city Maxim Verbovsky told Suspilny.
15:13 The prosecutor's office reported a suspicion to the Russian propagandist blogger Semyon Pegov, who is the author of the WarGonzo project, which justifies the war against Ukraine and the occupation of its territories. He faces up to five years in prison with confiscation of property, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
15:04 A separate rifle battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is being formed in the Sumy region. Vasily Odarchenko, head of the department for defense work, law enforcement and law enforcement of the Sumy OVA, said that men and women from 18 to 60 years old are invited to serve, both those who have a military specialty and those without relevant experience in the list of positions of officers and sergeants.
14:31 The NBU predicts that the number of Ukrainians abroad in the first quarter of this year will reach 9 million people, and the net return of migrants will begin only in 2024-2025, but will be less than expected.
13:42 Germany has approved the sale of 88 Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine. A government official said that the manufacturers were granted an export license, writes Politico.
13:37 Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, the NBU has transferred almost 23 billion hryvnias to support the defense forces, including more than 610 million in January. As of February 1, the balance of funds on the special account is more than 1 billion hryvnias. Over the past month, more than 440 million hryvnias were transferred to the special account.
In total, the special account, which the National Bank opened to support the defense forces on February 24, 2022, received more than UAH 23.9 billion in equivalent. Funds were transferred both by citizens and enterprises of Ukraine, and by the international community.
13:16 The Russians continue to pull up weapons to the Kinburn Spit, said the speaker of OK Pivden Natalya Gumenyuk. According to her, last night the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed another stronghold of the Russian troops, which they equipped on the Kinburn Spit - these are two pieces of equipment, wounded among the personnel.
12:38 The SBU exposed the deputy head of the Central Military Medical Commission of the Ministry of Defense, who helped dodgers for bribes, on systemic corruption. In particular, SBU officers documented the extortion of $5,000 from a conscript. During searches, law enforcement officers found cash in different currencies totaling more than 5 million hryvnias.
12:17 The maneuvers of the Russian ship group in the Black Sea indicate preparations for entering the combat course, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden. According to her, this morning there were two surface launch vehicles with 16 Kalibr-type missiles at sea, which are ready for use.
12:04 Lithuania has collected 5 million euros to purchase five radars for the Ukrainian air defense system, Lithuanian journalist Andrius Tapinas said.
12:01 Arakhamia urged the SBU to closely monitor corruption manifestations within the Ministry of Defense and immediately "isolate them by legal means, without violating the normal operation of the institution during the war." He stressed that some of the latest scandals around the Ministry of Defense are absolutely justified, and there are already court decisions on them. And some, given the time, facts and circumstances, may well be inspired by our enemy.
Arakhamia said that as a member of the VR Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, he knows many professional, patriotic and devoted to Ukraine people who work in the Ministry of Defense. "I would really not want all these bright people to be slinged with mud because some bastards decided to cash in on the war," he added.
11:49 Peskov called reports that the United States offered Moscow 20% of the territory of Ukraine in exchange for ending the war a "duck". He also called the information about the visit of CIA chief Burns to Moscow in January a "duck".
11:31 SBU liquidated schemes for embezzlement of budgetary funds for the food of the Ukrainian military. The amount of damage caused by the Ministry of Defense as a result of fraud is more than 119.5 million hryvnia. It was established that instead of supplying certain volumes of food products to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the participants in the scheme withdrew funds into the shadows through a number of affiliated companies.
In addition, in the Kyiv region, SBU officers exposed the commander of one of the military units for stealing almost 2.4 million hryvnia allocated for food for personnel.
11:08 The deficit in the energy system on February 3 almost did not change during the day and remains significant, Ukrenergo reported. Network restrictions remain only in the Odessa region. Consumption limits have been brought to all oblenergos. As of the morning, no limits were exceeded, emergency shutdowns were not applied.
Over the past day, the enemy subjected to massive artillery shelling of the energy infrastructure in Kharkiv, Kherson, Sumy, Zaporozhye, and Donetsk regions. The situation is especially difficult after the shelling in the Kherson region. Because of considerable damages some objects and in the next Nikolaev area are de-energized.
11:05 British intelligence reports that the involvement of Russian prisoners from the Wagner group in the war in Ukraine is gradually decreasing. Analysts suggest that Wagnerian prisoner recruitment has declined substantially from its peak in late summer and fall 2022. In particular, according to data from the Federal Penitentiary Service of January 31, the number of prisoners has decreased by 6,000 people since November, while in September-November - by 23 thousand people, and a significant number of these releases could be associated with recruitment into the Wagner group.
In addition, analysts take into account reports from the field from the Ukrainian military, from which it follows that over the past ten days, the Russians have been using the tactics of "human waves" less. Significant tensions between the Wagnerites and the Russian Ministry of Defense are becoming publicly visible, and this competition between factions of the Russian elite is likely to have contributed in part to the decrease in the entry of prisoners into the ranks of the Wagner PMC, intelligence points out.
11:00 Despite the end of the joint tactical flight exercise between Russia and Belarus, the aviation group of the Russian Aerospace Forces has not begun to be deployed to permanently based airfields in Russia. At the same time, the helicopters of the Air Force of the Republic of Belarus began to relocate to their permanent airfields, the monitoring group of Belarus Gayun reports.
Analysts admit that the withdrawal of aircraft and helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces may begin in the coming days. Otherwise, this will mean that Russia has decided to strengthen its permanent aviation presence in Belarus. Officially, this can be announced as, for example, "strengthening the aviation component of the regional grouping of troops of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation."
10:58 President of the European Council Charles Michel announced that he had arrived in Kyiv to participate in the 24th EU-Ukraine summit.
10:51 The "authorities" of Crimea said they "nationalized" the property of Akhmetov, Kolomoisky, and other Ukrainian politicians and businessmen, about 500 objects in total.
10:43 The Office of the Prosecutor General reported suspicions to the head of PMC Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin of encroaching on the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Prosecutor General Andrei Kostin said that Prigozhin is directly responsible for thousands of war crimes and openly admits his role in waging the war against Ukraine.
Kostin assured that ordinary Wagnerites would not escape responsibility either - even those who fled abroad. According to him, prosecutors have already interrogated two such fighters who are in the EU. The verification of involvement in war crimes of another member of the PMC, who is located in Norway, is also ongoing. A corresponding request for investigative actions will soon be sent to the Norwegian prosecutors.
10:29 The intensity of the fighting in eastern Ukraine is an attempt to implement Putin's task of capturing the Donbass, Andrey Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said: "February-March - we expect very active events. The task from Putin is to capture the Donbass by March. Nothing will work. These "The dates have already been postponed many times. The intensity that we are now seeing in the Donbas is an attempt to implement these plans. Not counting the loss of manpower and equipment. The enemy is trying to fulfill the tasks of the dictator. Therefore, yes, there will be active events in the near future."
09:38 In the Kherson region over the past day, two people were killed due to Russian shelling, nine were injured, among them a five-year-old child, the OVA reported.
09:26 The first deliveries of GLSDB precision bombs to Ukraine may begin no earlier than in nine months, Bloomberg writes, citing its source. The nine-month period will begin after the US Air Force concludes a contract with the bomb manufacturer, Boeing. Initially, they will allocate 200 million dollars.
09:22 The next six months in Ukraine will be critical, said CIA director William Burns. According to him, Putin is betting that the West will become politically war-weary. At the same time, the CIA cannot give an assessment of whether Moscow is serious about negotiations.
09:11 Today, at about 4:30 am, the Russians fired at the town of Barvenkovo, Izyumsky district, Kharkiv region. As a result of a shell hitting a private residential building, two people were killed and another was injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Another person was wounded the day before in Volchansk.
09:07 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person died - in Kramatorsk. Eight more people were injured in the region, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
09:01 A car was blown up in the occupied Energodar - a "police officer" died as a result of the explosion, the local "GU MVD" reported.
According to the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, the blown up car belonged to a former law enforcement officer who, with the advent of the occupiers, began working for them.
08:57 The IMF and Kiev plan to agree on a new aid package in the amount of 14 to 16 billion dollars by the spring, writes the Financial Times.
08:49 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy as of the morning of February 3.
personnel - about 129,870 (+840) people liquidated,
tanks - 3215 (+4),
armored combat vehicles - 6388 (+6),
artillery systems - 2215 (+3),
MLRS - 460 (+2),
air defense systems - 222 (+0),
aircraft - 294 (+1),
helicopters - 284 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1952 (+1),
cruise missiles - 796 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 5068 (+4),
special equipment - 202 (+2).
08:21 The enemy, suffering heavy losses, does not stop offensive operations in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Novopavlovsky directions, the General Staff said in the morning report . Over the past 24 hours, units of the Defense Forces repelled attacks by invaders in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhivka, Nevskoye and Belogorovka in the Luhansk region and Verkhnekamenskoye, Nikolaevka, Krasnaya Gora, Paraskoveevka, Bakhmut, Ivanovskoye and Kurdyumovka in the Donetsk region.
07:56 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) writes that the Kremlin is trying to present the war in Ukraine as an existential threat to the Russians in order to create conditions for a protracted war and get support from the citizens of the Russian Federation themselves, but these attempts are not very successful.
Thus, Putin, in his speech on February 2 on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazi troops by the Red Army in the Battle of Stalingrad, said that the country was once again faced with "a modern manifestation of Nazism." He used false historical parallels to draw an analogy between the SVO in Ukraine and the German-Soviet war. Lavrov also tried to reassure that the war in Ukraine posed a real internal threat. However, all efforts on the part of Russian officials do not lead to the desired effect of motivating Russians to participate in the war, according to ISW.
Analysts also believe that Putin again overestimated the strength of the Russian army, so his big offensive in eastern Ukraine will end prematurely in the spring rainy season and will not be effective.
05:51 In less than a year of the war in Ukraine, Russia has lost about 200 thousand soldiers killed and wounded, writes The New York Times, citing estimates by American and European officials. According to them, the Russian Federation lost a lot of manpower during the stubborn battles for Bakhmut and Soledar. At the same time, analysts state that the death toll is not a deterrent for Putin.
05:16 The authorities of the Bryansk region said that the air defense system repelled an alleged Ukrainian missile attack on the Starodubsky municipal district, four missiles were shot down, there were no casualties and no damage.
04:57 The White House and the CIA denied the report of the Swiss publication Neue Zürcher Zeitung that CIA Director William Burns allegedly offered the Russian Federation and Ukraine a peace plan that provided for the cessation of hostilities in exchange for the Russian Federation maintaining control over part of the Ukrainian territory.
03:56 German authorities have approved the supply of Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine from industrial stocks and are negotiating the purchase of 15 Gepard tanks from Qatar to be sent to Kiev, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports. Rheinmetall and Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft want to repair dozens of Leopard 1 tanks and could supply them to Ukraine if Kyiv agrees to buy them.
01:22 Ukrainian troops in anticipation of Western tanks need to play for time and will probably have to move away from Bakhmut to gather resources for the spring offensive, Bloomberg reports, citing an unnamed US official. At the same time, he believes that the retreat from Bakhmut will not have a significant strategic impact on the war.
According to a US official, Ukrainian forces are likely to set up defensive lines very close to where the front line is now. It is expected that from Bakhmut Russia will move towards Slavyansk and Kramatorsk.
00:47 The North Korean authorities intend to send their police and military personnel to the temporarily occupied parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions for restoration work, writes the South Korean edition of Daily NK. According to journalists, the DPRK plans to send 300-500 men aged 19 to 27 to Ukraine. They should arrive in the occupied territories at the end of February or at the beginning of March.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:42 For the first time during a special operation, the Russian military destroyed the Norwegian NASAMS air defense system, the delivery of which to Kyiv became known in the fall. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the destruction of the complex in its report. 22:21 A terrorist attack occurred in Energodar - a car was blown up, a police officer died as a result of the explosion, the local GUMVD reported.
21:46 Those liable for military service can be handed summons in shops, public transport and other similar places, as this does not contradict the legislation of Ukraine, - Head of the Pechersk Regional Territorial Center for Acquisition and Social Support of Kyiv Kalugin
He explained that such measures are being taken due to the fact that not all conscripts live at the place of registration.
21:37 Russian military caught operators of Ukrainian drones
Soldiers of the Russian 68th Tank Regiment, using a drone, discovered the operators of APU quadcopters. The building where the Ukrainian soldiers were hiding was covered.
Note that the most effective way to deal with enemy drones is to defeat their launch points. Drones are only consumables for the enemy, but the training of new operators costs much more effort and time.
Attacks on enemy drone launch sites have been practiced by DPR and LPR fighters since 2020.
20:26 Russian rocket artillery smashes Ukrainian positions near Vuhledar
The scouts uncovered the enemy's deployment points, which were attacked from the MLRS of the V group.
19:18 Combat pairs of "Rooks":the crews of the Su-25 attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces continue to deliver missile air strikes on military facilities and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Missile launches are carried out in pairs from low altitudes.
After the use of aviation weapons, the crews performed a maneuver, releasing heat traps and returned to the departure airfield.
As a result of combat use, camouflaged fortified field positions and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
After the sorties, the engineering and technical staff completed the tasks of servicing aircraft and preparing aviation equipment for a second combat sortie.
18:06 The 93rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered heavy losses near Bakhmut
Relatives of the missing servicemen of the 93rd Brigade (93rd Brigade) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have published a list containing at least 95 names. We are talking only about losses in the area of Bakhmut (Artemovsk) and Soledar.
It should be noted that the 93rd Motorized Rifle Brigade is far from being the only Ukrainian unit in this direction; units from over 30 brigades, both regular and territorial defense, are fighting there. And that's not counting individual rifle battalions. In addition, units of the Ukrainian SOF operate in the Bakhmut area.
The 93rd Motorized Brigade escaped the fate of its "colleagues" from the 46th air assault and 61st brigades in Soledar. The connection was withdrawn from the front line in December. The situation in the brigades mentioned above is clearly worse.
The presence of at least 95 missing people in the 93rd Motorized Brigade once again testifies to the huge losses suffered by the Ukrainian military in the Bakhmut area.
18:05 Air alert announced throughout Ukraine
17:16 Stormtroopers of Wagner PMC demonstrate samples of weapons that were captured during the assault on Soledar
Among the captured trophies are M2 Browning, M240 machine guns and Yugoslav copies of the MG-42 machine gun, as well as various grenade launchers, including the RGW-90 MATADOR and AT-4.
16:12 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
◾️The RF Armed Forces took more advantageous lines and positions during the offensive in the Donetsk direction;
◾️The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction per day amounted to 40 military;
◾️The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction for the day amounted to more than 70 military;
◾️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a fuel storage facility for military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the settlement of Krasnoarmeysk in the DPR;
◾️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the Tochka-U missile launcher and the NASAMS air defense system manufactured in Norway in the DPR;
◾️The Russian Armed Forces defeated two territorial defense brigades in the Zaporozhye region;
◾️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the settlements of Kurakhovka and Mikhailovka in the DPR;
◾️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a launcher of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system in the Antonovka area in the Kherson region.
15:30 Explosions are heard in Kherson and the Nikolaev region, reports the Ukrainian edition "Klimenko Time".
“Sounds of explosions were heard in Ochakovo, Mykolaiv region and Kherson,” the publication said in a telegram channel.
15:11 It is reported that Rostec handed over a batch of new BMP-3s to the RF Ministry of Defense
Soon they will be sent to the NWO zone. The new vehicles are equipped with the main sight of the gunner-operator "Sodema" and additional protection kits - armored screens and gratings.
15:10 Armored vehicle of Russian marinesshootsa group of Ukrainian military
The enemy was detected using a thermal imager, after which he was hit by BMP-3 fire from the 40th Marine Brigade.
15:06 Fighters of the LPR work out on the enemy from an anti-tank system abandoned by the Ukrainian military
“We don’t need anything from someone else, we give away what they forget on our land,” the soldier comments.
14:58 Explosions reported in Ochakovo
14:08 Tankers of the Western Military District at the training ground in the Leningrad Regionfulfilledlive firing from the armament of the T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks
14:07 Special forces of the Central Military District participating in the SVO,handed overstate awards
The command of the Central Military District awarded the medals "For Courage", Zhukov and Suvorov to the personnel who performed the most difficult tasks.
14:06 “We are doing a good job. We protect the earth! Calculations 122mm D-30 howitzers of the Southern Military District, in the course of carrying out fire missions, destroyed objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the special operation zone
Combat crews of D-30 howitzers of the Southern Military District daily destroy armored vehicles, artillery and mortar crews, as well as fortified positions of Ukrainian militants.
Fire adjustment is carried out around the clock. Military personnel of unmanned aerial vehicle crews carry out reconnaissance of enemy positions and correct the accuracy of firing at detected targets.
As part of combat crews, military personnel called up as part of partial mobilization and undergoing a full cycle of training and combat coordination as part of their units in the rear areas of the NMD also perform combat missions.
12:55 Soledar Front: Wagner PMC continues storming the enemy's fortifications.
Assault groups are fighting moving north from the city of Soledar. At the moment, not a single living Ukrainian militant remains in the city itself and within a radius of seven km around.
11:56 An air raid alert has been announced throughout Ukraine. Sirens operate in the capital region and in the west of the country.
11:55 Artillery of the Southern Military District in battles at the front
Our gunners of the "Southern" group of forces are burning artillery and mortar crews, armored vehicles, as well as fortified areas of Ukrainian terrorists around the clock.
“We are doing a good job. We protect the earth! - says one of the fighters of the 122mm D-30 calculation.
10:53 Akhmat special forces soldiers and the 2nd brigade of the 2nd army corps recaptured a strategically important stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Vesyoloye.
Ramzan Kadyrov announced this by publishing video taken by the military.
"Now the fighters intend to continue the successful advance, being in a better position than the opponents," he said.
09:52 Russian artillery men startled ammunition depot of Ukrainian militants.
09:15 As a result work artillery 132 brigade, the enemy continues to suffer losses.
Artillery of the 132nd Brigade of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps (formerly the 3rd brigade of the NM DPR) covered the enemy detachment with fire, which suffered losses and was put to flight.
08:10 "Rooks" amaze from the sky oporniki and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Su-25 attack aircraft fire at the enemy. After missile launches, the aircraft releases heat traps and performs an anti-missile maneuver, avoiding enemy air defenses.
08:05 Summary for the morning of February 3, 2023:
PMC "Wagner" is developing an offensive from the Soledar direction. Yesterday was released n.p. Nikolaevka, 11 km left to the suburbs of Seversk.
There are reports that 13 km south of Kremennaya, our troops occupied Belogorovka, Popasnyansky district, LPR.
On the Artemovsky (Bakhmut) direction, seven km north of the city, the enemy tried to pull up reserves to the Krasnaya Gora area. Enemy reinforcements are destroyed on the way. In Artemovsk itself - heavy fighting. To the south of the city, our forces are moving towards the Chasov Yar - Artemovsk highway, which is two km away.
Yesterday, information was received about the destruction of another enemy DRG in the Kherson direction in the area of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to shell the Valuysky and Krasnogvardeysky districts of the Belgorod region, our air defense was working.
In the Bryansk region, four enemy missiles were shot down over the Starodubsky municipal district today at 5 am.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are transferring reserves to the Orekhovsky and Gulyaipolsky sections.
The enemy fired 174 shells at the DPR, under enemy fire civilians in Donetsk, Golmovsky, Gorlovka, Yakovlevka, Mineralny, Yasinovataya, Makeevka, Vladimirovka. A civilian died.
07:05 The Ministry of Defense showedframestraining of those mobilized before being sent to the zone of a special military operation.
06:20 Russian artillery work.hitto the ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Kherson direction, Zmievka.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:31 The Russian military took Ugledar in the DPR into a semicircle, its release is similar to Artemovsk, Pushilin's adviser Kimakovsky said. 21:05 Ramzan Kadyrovdemonstratedthe destruction of the MT-LB armored personnel carrier near the village of Vesyoloye and called it a rehearsal before the arrival of the Leopards and Abrams to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“NATO equipment burns very beautifully. The rehearsal went off without a hitch. Our fearless warriors are successfully filling their hand. They are waiting for new targets in the form of Zelensky's gypsy equipment from their foreign owners. For each "Abrams" and "Leopard" there is a Russian "Cornet." It will look exactly the same as in these shots, only more expensive in terms of finance for the West.”
21:04 Residents of Slavyansk are urged to evacuate due to the approach of the front line. This was stated by the mayor of the city Vadim Lyakh.
19:50 Direction Kremennaya-Svatovo, January 18, 2023. Works calculation of Russian artillery. The anti-tank missile system "KORNET" stopped the delivery of personnel and ammunition by the enemy
19:11 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC on February 3, additional information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): - st. Slepneva, 15 - a private residential building.
18:44 Evening summary Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on February 3, 2023.
18:21 APU inflicted missile attack on the settlement Bulavinovka using MLRS HIMARS
18:13 The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the settlement of Turiysk in the Kherson region. INresultartillery attack damaged private households. There were no casualties or wounded as a result of the shelling. Many residents of the city have long since left their homes.
17:37 Militants of the Kyiv regime fired at New Kakhovka - a garage cooperative was under attack.
At 16:10 the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukrainereleased8 rounds from cannon artillery in Novaya Kakhovka - as a result of shelling, private garages in the Yuzhny cooperative were damaged, emergency services reported. Note that the military in this cooperative was not. Information about casualties among the civilian population is being specified.
17:20 Ukrainian troops at 16.30 shelled the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, firing four rounds with a caliber of 155 mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
16:40 Ukrainian troops fired at the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, firing three rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
16:20 Rocket artillery works according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kremennaya.
Fierce fighting continues in the LPR. The most tense sector of the front is the Svatovo-Kremennaya region, where the enemy does not leave attempts to attack the positions of the Russian troops. However, all attempts to attack Kremennaya end in failure, due to the fact that artillerymen are actively striking at the positions of Ukrainian militants.
“More often we work on unplanned goals that intelligence gives or our unit. A few days ago there was activity, but our units worked well, and this activity quickly ended, ”a fighter with the call sign "Gray" told our correspondent.
As noted, the calculations of the 122mm MLRS BM-21 "Grad" of the 488th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Western Military District of the RF Armed Forces in the Kremennaya area regularly strike at the accumulation of equipment and personnel of the enemy.
15:49 Last night, the Kyiv security forces fired at the village of Bulavinovka, Novopskovskiy district, from the HIMARS MLRS, firing four M31 GMLRS missiles at the village. As a result of the shelling damaged a school, a House of Culture, a post office, as well as 10 residential buildings, the LPR representative office in the JCCC reported.
15:35 On February 3, additional information was received about the damage as a result of the artillery attack of the AFU cities of the Republic:
n.p. Golmovsky: - the village is de-energized.
15:10 Terrorist shelling the central market of Gorlovka.
Ukrainians continue to strike at major cities of the Donetsk People's Republic. As a result of massive nighttime artillery attack of Gorlovka, the central market was damaged, most of the malls were completely destroyed.
14:54 Residents of Bakhmut (Artemovsk) are increasingly refuse from evacuation to the controlled territory of the criminal Kyiv regime
14:40 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for February 3, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district): - on the street. Rodionova, 2, a woman born in 1962 suffered.
14:21 Ukrainian militants opened fire on the Central City district of Gorlovka. Explosions of enemy rounds are recorded in the immediate vicinity of the reservoir and the former knitting factory.
14:20 Destruction enemy infantry fighting vehicle on the line of contact in the Donetsk direction.
13:43 Russian tank crews are dismantling positions enemy infantry in the Svatovsky direction.
13:31 Yasinovataya under fire Ukrainian fighters.
Ukrainian nationalists continue to shell the front-line town of Yasinovataya. The buildings of the polyclinic and the city administration were damaged, the glazing and the facade of the building were damaged. Fortunately no one was hurt.
13:15 Consequences hit by a Ukrainian shell in an apartment in a residential multi-storey building in the city of Golaya Pristan, Kherson region.
13:05 Personnel from the site of a car explosion in Energodar, where one person died. Investigators are on the scene.
12:40 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC on February 3, additional information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district):
- st. Petrovsky, 258 - a direct hit in an apartment building;
- st. Rodionova, 2 - a direct hit in an apartment building.
12:20 Reportage People's Militia of the DPR from the Soledar direction.
Soldiers of PMC "Wagner" continues the assault on the Ukrainian fortifications to the north of Soledar. At the moment, not a single living Ukrainian militant remains in the city itself and within a radius of seven kilometers around.
11:59 In Tavriysk, due to targeted mortar shelling, the issuance of pensions has been stopped - the administration of the Novokakhovka urban district.
Tavriysk is currently under heavy fire from the UAF militants. Aimed fire is being conducted on the area where the issuance of payments to pensioners took place. Due to the threat to the lives of dozens of civilians, the issuance of pensions was suspended, and people hastily left the dangerous area.
11:55 Consequences of morning artillery attack of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
11:45 It is reported that yesterday afternoon in the area of N. p. Inhulets (Kherson region) an artillery strike was inflicted, as a result of which, "Acacia" - a 152mm self-propelled howitzer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - was destroyed, three - military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were disposed of; one - seriously injured
11:34 Ukrainian troops fired at the areas of Donetsk, firing six rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
11:01 Tonight, an artillery strike was carried out on the location of one of the units of the 73rd Marine Special Operations Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the settlement Ochakovo (Nikolaev region), as a result of which: 25 Nazis - destroyed; 15 - were wounded, four units. automotive equipment - disabled.
11:00 Investigators of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation examined the building of the administration of the city of Yasinovataya DPR, which was fired upon by the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the use of NATO-style artillery. At the time of the shelling, the mayor of the city was in the administration building. As a result of the shelling, the facade of the administration building was damaged, windows were shattered, and the offices were slashed by fragments from a NATO shell.
10:54 Afternoon summary Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on February 3, 2023.
10:48 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC on February 3, additional information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
n.p. Aleksandrovka: 20 transformer substations de-energized. Without power supply of 2000 subscribers.
10:05 Result terrorist act in Energodar killed an employee of the territorial body of internal affairs.
The Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Zaporozhye region found that an internal affairs officer died due to a car explosion in Energodar. Investigators are on the scene, the circumstances of the incident are being investigated.
09:50 AFU continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of the Kherson region - emergency services.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine on the eve once again fired at civilian infrastructure in the Kherson region, the emergency services reported. On the eve, the Cossack Camps, Korsunka and Peschanovka, as well as Novaya Kakhovka, Dnepryany and Naked Pier came under fire from militants. A total of 56 rounds were fired.
In addition, the artillery attack did not end even at night - Novaya Kakhovka, Alyoshki, Gornostaevka, Cairo and Lyubimovka came under fire. A total of 36 rounds were fired at them. Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified.
09:36 Information on the artillery attack of Gorlovka as of 08:00 on February 3, 2023
09:28 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for February 3, information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the cities of the Republic by the AFU:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district): - st. Vyatskaya, 13 - a private residential building, burned down completely.
n.p. Gorlovka (Central city district):
— fixed damage to the infrastructure of the central market; shopping malls were also damaged;
- damage to the building of the trading house "Donbass" was recorded;
- st. Dzerzhinsky, 10/2 - a direct hit in private housing construction;
— recorded a direct hit in the store on the street. Pervomaiskaya;
- st. Pervomaiskaya - damage to the outdoor lighting line was recorded; the contact network of the trolleybus was also damaged and the trolleys were killed.
09:14 Damaged artillery attack VFU trading house "Donbass", located at: st. Pervomaiskaya, 6 (Central-City district of Gorlovka).
08:54 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC on February 2, additional information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
n.p. Yasinovataya:
- damage to the city administration building was recorded;
- Damage to the building of the Polyclinic of the Yasinovatsky Central District Hospital was recorded.
08:50 In the Svatov direction, soldiers of the 1st Tank Army with artillery fire startled Ukrainian tank T-64BV.
08:33 On photographs- shop located at: st. Pervomayskaya, 7/27 (Tsentralno-Gorodskoy district of Gorlovka), damaged as a result of a direct hit by a Ukrainian shell on the roof.
08:10 During the day, one person died on the territory of the DPR, two more were injured.
Over the past day, from 08:00 on February 2 to 08:00 on February 3, one person was killed and two more civilians were injured as a result of artillery attack of the VFU in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
08:08 On photographs- shopping arcades of the central market of Horlivka and the Donbass trading house, damaged as a result of artillery attack by Ukrainian militants.
08:07 As a result of the artillery attack of Yasinovataya damage received by the city administration.
"My office. Alive, healthy. I feel great. We'll work more. Thank you all for your support. We continue to work, ”Dmitry Shevchenko, the head of Yasinovataya, wrote in his Telegram channel.
08:05 The Russian armed forces are close to taking the ring around Artemovsk under full fire control, now they are entrenched on the eastern borders, the Russian artillery controls all approaches to the city, Pushilin's adviser Kimakovsky told RIA Novosti.
08:01 Ukrainian troops fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing six rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
07:30 Captured Ukrainian soldier in conversation with RIA Novosticonfessedin the murder of nine civilians in the Volnovakha district of the DPR in March 2022, while seven people, including three women, he killed with a grenade launcher at a residential building on the orders of his command.
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[REGNUM] The news of the negotiations held by the head of the CIA, William Burns, about a peaceful settlement of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine on February 3 was denied by the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov, a REGNUM correspondent reports.
Peskov explained to journalists that the Kremlin did not receive proposals from the United States for a peaceful resolution of the conflict with Kyiv and the division of Ukrainian territory, during which Russia was allegedly supposed to receive 20%.
'This is a dodge,' said Dmitry Peskov.
He also commented on other topical issues, in particular, the state of security in Crimea and Donbass, the European embargo on Russian oil products, relations between Russia and Serbia, and a number of others.
In connection with the news about the formation of Ukrainian assault brigades to attack the Crimea and Donbass, journalists asked about the state of security of these Russian territories. To which Dmitry Peskov explained that the Donbass is not fully protected yet, so the special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine continues, and “Crimea, like the Donbass, is a region of the Russian Federation. The security of Crimea is securely ensured.”
The Kremlin spokesman also announced that Russian leader Vladimir Putin would hold an operational meeting with permanent members of the Security Council and separate meetings with faction leaders in the State Duma.
Speaking about the embargo on Russian oil products, which comes into force on February 5, Dmitry Peskov noted that the Kremlin has a negative attitude towards this topic.
"This will lead to further unbalancing of international energy markets, but we are taking measures," he stressed.
In connection with the possible imposition of sanctions by Serbia, Peskov expressed the hope that relations between the two countries would develop despite pressure from the West:
"We highly appreciate this position of the Serbian leadership and hope that our relations will continue to develop upwards."
Answering a question about the closure of the Upper Lars checkpoint on the border with Georgia, the president's representative advised journalists to contact the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
As REGNUM reported, the dialogue between the head of the CIA, William Burns, with Moscow and Kiev, as a result of which Russia was supposed to receive 20% of the territory of Ukraine in the event of peace, was reported by the German-language daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung. But in the White House and even the CIA itself, the information was called unreliable.
Reports that CIA chief William Burns allegedly visited Russia secretly in January 2023 are a canard, Peskov said.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] List of regular arms deliveries from the US to Ukraine:
- Additional ammunition for HIMARS (including GLSDB);
- Additional 155-mm artillery shells;
- Additional 120-mm mortar mines;
- 190 heavy machine guns with thermal imaging sights and ammunition;
- 181 armored vehicles of the MRAP class;
- 250 ATGM FGM-148 Javelin;
- 2,000 anti-tank missiles;
— anti-personnel mines M18 Claymore;
— engineering ammunition;
— equipment for cold weather, helmets and more;
- 2 air defense systems MIM-23 Hawk;
- anti-aircraft guns and ammunition for them;
- equipment for the integration of Western launchers, missiles and air defense radars with Ukrainian air defense systems;
- equipment to maintain the existing air defense capabilities of Ukraine;
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