[New Voice of Ukriane] The Russian military is moving multiple launch rocket systems, air defense systems and troops to the port in Mariupol, advisor to the city's mayor Petro Andriushchenko said in a Telegram post on Feb. 6.
Andriushchenko said the movement of the following military assets was recorded during the night:
at least eight multiple launch rocket systems,
six buses with troops,
trucks with ammunition,
two S-300 air defense systems.
"Mariupol continues to be flooded with the occupiers," Andriushchenko wrote.
The official reported that Russian troops continue to move their forces to the city and its outskirts. Over the past week alone, about 15,000 soldiers have been deployed to the Mariupol area, he said.
[New Voice of Eukraine] Igor Mangushev, a Russian mercenary and propagandist, who months ago staged a gruesome stunt in which he brandished the skull allegedly of one of the fallen Ukrainian defenders of Azovstal, has been shot in the head, Ukrainian journalist Denys Kazanskyi reported on Telegram on Feb. 5.
According to reports circulating on social media, Mangushev was shot in the head at close range, execution-style, at a checkpoint in the Russian-occupied part of Luhansk Oblast.
Mangushev (call sign "Bereg") was sent to the neurosurgery department of one of the hospitals in Kadiivka (which the Russians call Stakhanov) with a gunshot wound. Alive? So, a poorly executed Execution-Style attack?
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Good to see his counterparts on the Ukraine side are disappearing from media coverage. That was a real thorn in the side of the war against Russia for a while.
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The mossomo challenge, find me Russian neo-nazi 'Light Rus' social media. Does it exist? Do they have a web presence? Or do they only exist in ISW and Euromaidens imaginations?
I remember high school and a bunch of friends wore "Cocks" baseball caps (The Fighting Cocks) and the school administration thought they were in a gang.
From what I read, this guy is Wagner and any neo-nazi affiliation is a personal flare.
On February 2, as a result of shelling by Ukrainian artillery, the commander of the 14th separate Guards special purpose brigade, Colonel Sergei Polyakov, and about a dozen officers were killed. pic.twitter.com/BDNghQ0O2l
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Moscow’s response to Kiev’s strikes at Crimea or any other Russian region "deep" inside the country can be any, but it will be hard and convincing, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said in a written interview for Nadana Fridrikhson, published on her Telegram channel.
"Our response can be any," he said, answering a question. "The President of Russia said it quite definitively."
Medvedev explained that Russia sets no restrictions for itself, and, depending of the nature of threats, can use all kinds of weapons, "in accordance with our doctrinal documents, including the Basic Principles of nuclear deterrence."
"I can assure you: the response will be swift, hard and convincing," the politician added.
According to the Russian nuclear doctrine, Russia may use nuclear weapons if nuclear or other types of weapons of mass destruction are used against Russia or its allies, if it receives verified information about a start of ballistic missiles for attack on Russia or its allies, in case of enemy influence on facilities, vital for response nuclear action, and in case of conventional aggression against Russia, if the very existence of the state is endangered.
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Nuclear threats kind of lost their sting after the first dozen or two.
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[Korrespondent] 23:13 Ukraine has received "very reliable intelligence data" about Russia's intentions to launch a new offensive, the Financial Times writes, citing sources. According to the publication, the attack could occur within ten days. Experts call the western part of the Luhansk region in the area of Kremennaya and Liman, where the Russian Federation has been gathering troops for several weeks, the likely place for a new offensive.
21:59 Arakhamia announced new personnel decisions in the government:
Aleksey Reznikov is being transferred within the government to the post of Minister for Strategic Industries to strengthen military-industrial cooperation, "which is absolutely logical, given his expertise on Ramstein and the need to "elevate" the ministry, which should do more."
Kirill Budanov will head the Ministry of Defense , which is absolutely logical for wartime.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs will be headed by Igor Klimenko.
Vasily Malyuk will become the head of the SBU.
"War dictates personnel policy. Time and circumstances require strengthening and regrouping. This is happening now and will continue to happen in the future. The logic is the same. Law enforcement agencies at this stage should be headed not by politicians, but by personnel security officials. The enemy is preparing to attack. We are preparing to defend ourselves and return his own," Arakhamia explained.
21:45 Zelensky said that it is very difficult in the Donetsk region now: "There are already many reports that the occupiers want to do something symbolic in February. Try to win back for their last year's defeats. We see this increased pressure in different directions of the front, as well as pressure in the information field. It is very difficult in the Donetsk region - fierce battles. But no matter how hard it is and no matter what the pressure, we must endure."
21:41 Zelensky said that following the results of the week, there are important agreements with energy partners: "In particular, the European Union is ready to support Ukraine with the supply of electricity. We are increasing cooperation in the supply of energy equipment. There are also extremely successful examples in energy-saving initiatives. For example, just for one this week, people have already received the first million LED lamps in exchange for energy-consuming incandescent lamps. More than 800 thousand applications for this program are already in Dії, that is, it is most convenient. When we fully implement the program - and this is 30 million LED lamps, - This will result in significant savings in consumption.
21:21 Reznikov confirmed that Israel plans to transfer missile and drone warning technologies to Ukraine. At the same time, he did not specify when exactly these technologies will arrive and how they will be used.
21:13 Zelensky said in an evening video message about another sanction step by Ukraine against the Russian Federation: "The decision of the National Security and Defense Council on sanctions against the Russian nuclear industry has been put into effect . And this is not the last decision regarding this industry of theirs. The meaning of our steps is also in to support the efforts of our diplomats to expand global sanctions on this part of the Russian machine of aggression."
The President's website published a list of 200 legal entities subject to sanctions for a period of 50 years. Among them are Rosatom and its subsidiaries, a number of institutes and research centers, plants, as well as JSC Operating Organization of Zaporozhye NPP.
19:26 Reznikov advocates partial openness of defense procurement following the example of the Prozorro system and proposes to create Military Prozorro. The minister also said that a public anti-corruption council would be created under the Ministry of Defense, which would allow the department to receive expertise from the public.
18:34 The enemy continues to regroup in separate directions. The main efforts are being concentrated on conducting offensive operations in the Kupyansky, Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Novopavlovsky directions, the General Staff said in an evening summary.
In Tokmak, Zaporozhye region, Russians are forcibly evicting civilians from their homes and settling in local collaborators, including those from the so-called "law enforcement agencies." In the settlement of Krynki, Kherson region, the invaders conduct searches and take away boats, water engines and other equipment for moving through the water from the civilian population.
18:25 The Wall Street Journal writes that Russia wants to create a faster drone than Shahed, but Iran will still produce them - however, already on Russian territory. According to the publication, the production will presumably be located in the city of Yelabuga (Tatarstan, 1100 km to the border with Ukraine). The establishment of the plant is part of a $1 billion deal between Russia and Iran. In early January, a high-level Iranian delegation visited the site where the plant is planned to be built.
The deal was finalized in early November in Tehran. By moving production to Russia, Iran hopes to shield itself from new Western sanctions, according to WSJ sources.
17:42 The exercises of Ukrainian crews on Leopard tanks begin on Monday, February 6, Reznikov said. He also expressed confidence that partners in the anti-Russian coalition will provide Ukraine with planes: "Today, in terms of weapons, we have received everything, only planes remain. I can add optimism to you. There will also be planes. The question is simply - what kind."
According to the Minister of Defense, Ukraine's partners are likely to announce the number of tanks and the timing of their provision during the meeting of the Contact Group on February 14. He clarified that this time the meeting will take place not in Ramstein, but in Brussels.
17:03 Reznikov said that Ukraine does not plan to use the longer-range weapons promised by the United States for strikes on Russian territory: "We always officially declare to our partners that we will not use weapons provided by foreign partners to shell Russian territory. We shoot only at Russian units in the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territory.
16:00 Ugledar is under enemy fire every day. Despite the losses, the Russians are trying to take the city by storm, said Alexei Dmitrashkovsky, spokesman for the Tauride Defense Forces. According to him, the enemy deployed two brigades of marines, special forces, tanks and artillery to this direction.
15:55 The Russians shelled Chernobaevka this morning, the Kherson OVA reported. Enemy shells damaged six residential buildings and vital communications, one person was injured.
15:04 During the nine months of the existence of the fundraising platform UNITED24, 278 million 890 thousand dollars have already been collected to support Ukraine, Zelensky said.
13:17 The situation in the Luhansk region is tense, but completely controlled, and Belogorivka remains under the control of Ukrainian forces, despite the stuffing of the Russians about the alleged capture of the city, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the number of attacks in the region has indeed increased, but they are all reflected. Also, the Russians are constantly pulling up reserves and equipment, and increased the number of shelling.
In addition, Gaidai said that as soon as a Kadyrovite gets into Ukrainian captivity, the Russians immediately agree to exchange him.
12:23 Commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykola Oleshchuk said that units of the anti-aircraft missile forces have already gone for training in managing the SAMP/T-Mamba air defense / missile defense system, which France and Italy will transfer to Ukraine.
11:35 Electricity consumption in Ukraine on February 5 is gradually growing due to increased frost. A more rapid growth is expected on February 6, with the start of the working week, Ukrenergo said. During almost all day there is an import of electricity from other countries. The deficit has slightly decreased due to the increase in production, but remains at a significant level. There are network restrictions in Kyiv and Odessa regions.
Consumption limits have been brought to all regions. Restrictions will apply, with the exception of Kyiv and Odessa, only for the period from 16:00 to 20:00. For the rest of the day, consumption restrictions are not planned to be applied. In Odessa and nearby areas, emergency shutdowns continue to operate.
11:02 The number of people injured as a result of a Russian missile attack on a residential area in the center of Kharkov has increased to four people, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Another wounded man is a security guard at the university where the second missile attack was carried out.
10:41 The Russians launched two rocket attacks on Druzhkovka, Donetsk region, at night: five people were injured, four high-rise buildings and a kindergarten were damaged. Vuhledar and the neighborhood of the community are also under shelling, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the UVA, said.
10:27 The Guardian writes that a secret Ukrainian battalion called the Brotherhood is working in Russia. According to the publication, these fighters are technically independent of the Ukrainian army, but operate side by side with the official forces. The last operation in Russia in which they participated was a month ago in the Belgorod region, where several ammunition depots have exploded in recent months. The fighters claim that it is "very easy for them to cross the Russian border."
10:04 Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in an interview with journalist Hanoch Daum that Putin allegedly promised him not to kill Zelensky. According to Bennett, he flew to Moscow in the early days of the war as an intermediary and held a meeting with Putin on March 5, 2022. Then the Russian president allegedly gave him his word not to kill Zelensky. After that, as Bennett said, he called Zelensky, and after the conversation, he came to his office and recorded a video in which he said that he was not afraid of anything.
Recall that on February 25, a video appeared on Zelensky’s Telegram channel, recorded on Bankova Street near his office. The next day, February 26, he recorded another video with Bankova, in which he urged not to believe fakes.
Bennett also claims that Putin agreed not to push for the disarmament of Ukraine, and Zelensky abandoned his desire to join NATO that same weekend. In addition, Bennett assured that he coordinated all his actions at that time with the United States, Germany and France. According to him, negotiations with the Russian Federation in March-April were interrupted at the initiative of the West.
09:39 British intelligence reports that Bakhmut is becoming increasingly isolated, and Russian troops have made little progress over the past week in their attempts to surround the city. According to intelligence, M03 and H32 - the two main roads into the city for the Ukrainian defenders - are now likely under the threat of direct fire after the Russian advance.
Earlier this week, the Wagnerites most likely captured a secondary route linking Bakhmut with Seversk. However, several alternative supply routes remain for Ukrainian forces, analysts say.
09:10 In the Kherson region over the past day due to Russian shelling, one person was killed, another was wounded, the OVA reported.
09:08 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of enemy shelling, four people were killed - three in Bakhmut and one in Yampol. Another 11 people were injured in the region, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
09:04 In the morning, the Russians fired two missiles at the center of Kharkov, preliminary S-300. Mayor Igor Terekhov said that one of the rockets hit a residential area in the Kievsky district, it is known about a fire in one of the residential buildings and about one injured person.
08:48 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that Russia has not demonstrated the ability to conduct several major offensive operations necessary to simultaneously reach the administrative borders of the Donetsk region and capture Zaporozhye. Russian offensive operations are unlikely to be directed at Zaporozhye, analysts say, as the invaders continue to prepare for an offensive in the western Luhansk region. Russian troops are also stepping up attacks on Bakhmut, ignoring the front around Donetsk.
As for the statements by Russian sources that Russian troops allegedly captured a number of settlements in the Zaporozhye region, according to ISW, this was most likely an information operation aimed at dispersing Ukrainian forces on the eve of a "decisive offensive in the east of the country."
ISW also reports that the Russian Defense Ministry has begun restructuring and consolidating the disparate irregular formations participating in the war in Ukraine. Russian irregulars in Ukraine include contract soldiers, mobilized soldiers, forces of the fake Donetsk and Luhansk "people's republics", volunteer battalions, forces of the Russian Combat Army Reserve, Cossack and Chechen detachments, as well as mercenaries of the Wagner group. These formations have different goals, limitations, hierarchies and legal status.
After Gerasimov's appointment as commander of the Joint Group of Forces in Ukraine on January 11, the Russian Defense Ministry initiated a series of professionalization measures, and it is only logical that the Defense Ministry will try to streamline the current mixture of forces into a more traditional structure. At the same time, analysts point out that the implementation of complex structural and administrative changes during the conduct of major offensive operations is an unusual step, however appropriate they may be. Gerasimov likely feels he has limited time to make changes to Russian forces before failing to achieve his grandiose goals causes him to fall out of Putin's good graces again, analysts conclude.
08:39 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy as of the morning of February 5.
personnel - about 131,290 (+700) people liquidated,
tanks - 3220 (+2),
armored combat vehicles - 6405 (+11),
artillery systems - 2226 (+6),
MLRS - 460 (+0),
air defense systems - 227 (+2),
aircraft - 294 (+0),
helicopters - 284 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1958 (+2),
cruise missiles - 796 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 5091 (+10),
special equipment - 203 (+0).
08:31 Russia is focusing its efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Kupyansky, Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Novopavlovsky directions, the General Staff said in the morning summary . Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Kremennaya and Shipilovka in the Lugansk region and Verkhnekamenskoe, Blagodatnoe, Krasnaya Gora, Paraskoveevka, Bakhmut, Ivanovskoye and Klescheevka in the Donetsk region.
In Gorlovka, Donetsk region, all medical facilities are overcrowded with wounded invaders, so they are equipping kindergartens, schools, or simply storage facilities for field hospitals. Medical personnel from Yakutia arrived at one of these hospitals in Svetlodarsk.
The General Staff also reported cases of refusals to participate in hostilities by mobilized Russian servicemen. As of February 3, about 600 such persons have been returned to the territory of the Russian Federation from the Luhansk region.
04:26 Putin is trying to justify the war in his own words that "German tanks threaten Russia again," Scholz said in an interview with Bild. The chancellor noted that Putin's words are part of a "series of incomprehensible historical comparisons" that the Russian president uses to justify the war in Ukraine. "Nothing can justify this war. Russia is waging a merciless war against Ukraine," he said.
Scholz is sure that the provision of Western tanks will not lead to an escalation of the war: "Together with the allies, we are giving Ukraine battle tanks so that they can defend themselves. We carefully weighed each batch of weapons, closely coordinating this with our allies, primarily with America."
Earlier, Putin said: "Unbelievable, but true: we are again being threatened by German Leopard tanks carrying crosses."
Scholz also confirmed the existence of a consensus with Zelensky on the use of weapons that the West provides to Ukraine. According to the chancellor, the parties agreed that these weapons would not be used for attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation.
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[RIA] It became known that along with sending 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine (this decision was made by the German Federal Chancellery on January 25), on Friday the same department announced the delivery of 88 tanks of the Leopard 1 modification to Kyiv from its, as it was said, "stocks."
Denazified (to the last, as we have been convinced for decades, the SS "rune" on the black uniform of the Reich) Germany - both divided and reunited - turned out to be not so denazified at all. Or rather, not denazified at all.
Recall that the combination 14/88 is the code slogan of the neo-Nazis.
Sounds like a reach to me, but what do I know from Nazis?
14 words is the length of a passage from Adolph Hitler's "Mein Kampf." "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." 88 is a reference to the eighth letter of the English alphabet regarded as shorthand for "Heil Hitler.” See here
Ok. But 14 Leopard 2s plus 88 Leopard 1s somehow equals a secret Nazi message?
Backmasking gets updated to more modern themes. Welcome to the 1970s in 2023.
However, let us leave the symbolism of numerals and turn to the facts. Initially divided into zones of occupation, east and west, from which the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany were later formed, these states behaved in a diametrically opposite way after a short time after the defeat of the Reich.
The main industrial base of Nazi Germany was located in the west. This is the Ruhr basin, which provided coal for the Nazi factories, and this is the industry itself, dispersed over the western regions, which later became federal lands.
Our then allies, in accordance with the documents of three international conferences, got their hands on factories that produced excellent alloy steel, no less high-quality tank armor, and aircraft equipment. Part of the workshops were taken to the USA , together, by the way, with the scientific and design management of enterprises as part of Operation Paperclip, organized by the Office of Strategic Services, the future CIA.
The owners of corporations who owned plants and factories were subject to denazification, and they were even handed over to the tribunal, and someone even ended up in the dock in Nuremberg . But by some incredible luck, and also thanks to good lawyers (for large and very large fees), these characters, direct accomplices of Hitler and adherents of the Nazi ideology, were given prison terms below the lower limit. And all these respectable gentlemen, whose enterprises used slave labor (in some cases, more than half of those who stood on the conveyor were prisoners of concentration camps), returned to their former work. Namely, to work to make Germany above all else again.
Of course, no one could say this directly, but the essence of this did not change.
How the composition of the German special services practically did not change. For example, one of them, the BND - the Foreign Intelligence Service, was actually led by Wehrmacht Lieutenant General Reinhard Gehlen, who had previously commanded intelligence on the Eastern Front.
Gehlen struggled with Soviet influence and communist ideology, this gave him complete indulgence and the opportunity to hire former large Gestapo figures like Klaus Barbier, the "butcher of Lyon", on whom the blood of tens of thousands of deported and tortured in dungeons, including small children whom the SS Barbier tortured on the eyes of the parents.
The degree of Nazification of the highest political establishment of Germany was such that federal prosecutor Fritz Bauer, an anti-fascist who fought the Nazis both during and after the war, gave information about the alleged location in Argentina of Adolf Eichmann directly to the leadership of the Mossad.
It is believed that Eichmann was also used by the German special services for their own purposes, so prosecutor Bauer feared that this executioner, who was responsible for the "final solution of the Jewish question", would be helped by his current colleagues to evade responsibility.
Through the efforts of the Americans, although the appearance of "denazification" was created, the main fist of German industry was saved. Approaching the process so carefully that even the Degussa Corporation, although it does not exist today under this name, was saved.
Degussa is known for producing the Zyklon B during the war, which was used to exterminate people in the gas chambers of death camps or in gas chambers.
Degussa was "denazified", of course, so much so that in 2006 36 thousand employees worked at its enterprises, and the annual turnover was almost 11 billion euros. The net profit that the “denazified” Zyklon B producer received was close to 900 million euros.
The "denazified" concern Gaubschat Fahrzeugwerke GmbH was no less provocatively doing business - it was "gas chambers" that came off its conveyors.
Vans designed specifically for killing people. Not only Jews. These could be the mentally ill, unworthy of being considered "true Aryans", orphans of Slavic nationality, and simply civilians, for example, the same Krasnodar , which was occupied.
After the war, the "denazified" concern, guilty of massacres, rebuilt and began to repair trams. He quite successfully carried out a kind of conversion and repaired this type of public transport until 1975.
And no one, not a single person, not a single politician, burgomaster, journalist, and just German citizens, about whom we were told that they all continuously repented and bore the burden of "historical guilt", never once asked: "But we definitely managed to overcome spirit of revenge? that we felt that we, as a nation, were above all?"
If Bosch, Porsche, Bayer felt great economically, if the stock performance was excellent, then who was interested at all that, for example, the predecessor of the Bayer corporation, which, about aspirin and other high-end pharmaceuticals, bought female prisoners from the leadership of Auschwitz in order to bet on them experiences and test drugs?
Of course, the current Bayer said that it "has nothing to do with these atrocities, since that Bayer was part of the Farbenindustrie AG concern," but the modern one is not.
Well, what works in the same area is just a coincidence.
That is, spoons, of course, were found, but the sediment still remained.
Therefore, maybe we should stop being naive already? Maybe we should still clarify to ourselves, to us, whose ancestors grinded the divisions of the Wehrmacht, destroyed misanthropes, stopped the furnaces of crematoria and the supply of "Cyclone B" to the gas chambers, and in the end defeated Nazism, driving a stake into its heart and putting the main criminals on the dock that our feat and our sacrifices, unfortunately, did not lead to the fact that the guilt of the Germans was realized both personally and at the level of society.
The new generation of German authorities is behaving in exactly the same way as those of the previous ones, just the scale of actions is more modest. Well, more decent slogans, in the spirit of the moment.
But the fact that the thirst for revenge still turns their heads today seems to be understood even by the most naive.
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This is a classic piece of Russian propaganda, designed to make Russians in particular and everybody else, hate Germans and equate today's Germans with the last century's Nazis. It doesn't help that German tanks will soon be headed into battle against Russians. That gives the propaganda the little kernel of truth that it needs to be effective. And so the hate goes on from one generation to the next.
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Fog of War
A Leningrad Ehrenburg mentee
Hunts Nazis, and, man, he finds plenty!
"Your decadent West
Is a wall-to-wall Festung. Der F-----'s Geburtstag? 420!"
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[KavkazUzel] Historian Magomednabi Ibragimov presented his new work “Imam Shamil. Pages of a biography and criticism of contemporary attempts to falsify it. The presentation aroused interest among history buffs, and professional historians highly appreciated the scientific value of the work. The book should be an answer to false theories about the origin of the imam, Magomednabi Ibragimov believes.
The leader of the highlanders of Dagestan and Chechnya in the struggle for independence against the Russian Empire (Caucasian War), the third imam of the Imamat of Highland Dagestan and Chechnya. In 1859 he was besieged in Gunib and on September 7 (according to the new style) surrendered. February 4 is considered the day of memory of Imam Shamil, according to the biography of Imam Shamil prepared by the "Caucasian Knot" .
The book aroused interest among the inhabitants of Dagestan.
The presentation of Ibragimov's book was held in Makhachkala on February 4, both representatives of the professional scientific community and ordinary residents of Dagestan, who came to support the author, were present, about 40 people in all, the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" who was present at the presentation reports. The audience was represented by both the older generation and the youth. Entrance to the presentation was free.
The prerequisite for writing this book was discussions and articles that questioned the Gimry origin of Imam Shamil and attributed his ancestors to various ethnic groups of Dagestan, Ibragimov said at the presentation. He explained that for several decades he studied the genealogy of Imam Shamil and published dozens of scientific articles on this topic.
The book "Imam Shamil. Pages of a biography and criticism of modern attempts to falsify it" was ready for publication in 2020, but the coronavirus pandemic and various problems postponed its publication until this year, Ibragimov said in his speech. “I myself was also sick for a long time, so the book was published only in 2022, and it became available to the reader only in January 2023,” Ibragimov said. He emphasized that the book deals not only with the ancestors and genealogy of the Imam, but the book contains an inconsistent presentation of the history of Imam Shamil. In particular, the book examines the episodes of Shamil's election as an imam, the resettlement of Imam Shamil to Ashilta, as well as other episodes from the life of the spiritual leader of the highlanders.
A resident of Makhachkala, Ali, came to the presentation of the book, as he saw its announcement on the page of Khadzhimurad Donoy on the social network. Ali does not know Magomednabi Ibragimov himself. “I hear about the author for the first time. I didn’t know that he published so many books,” the townsman explained. Ali said that he was interested in the history of Dagestan in general, as well as the history of the Caucasian War and, in particular, the personalities of the imams. “We are used to remembering exactly Imam Shamil, but there are other imams, and many do not remember them,” Ali said.
According to a resident of Makhachkala, the topic of Imam Shamil's genealogy, although it seems "secondary", is often discussed on social networks. “It’s right that I wrote a book so that everyone knows the correct answer to this question, but for me it doesn’t matter what nationality Shamil’s ancestors were two hundred, three hundred years before his birth. It is important for me what Shamil did for Dagestan. But I am for the truth in history and the author correctly pointed out that Shamil is an Avar from the village of Gimry and his ancestors were Avars, ”explained Ali, adding that he was a representative of a non-Avar nationality.
Every resident of Dagestan wants Imam Shamil to be from his village and from his ethnic group, and the book of Magomednabi Ibragimov puts an end to this issue, says Sultan , a resident of the village of Gimry. In his opinion, Ibragimov, in an accessible language and scientific methods, proves the inconsistency of the fictitious theories of the origin of Imam Shamil and his ancestors. According to a resident of Gimry, Ibragimov's book is useful both for a wide range of readers and for specialists involved in the era of Shamil. “This is a bestseller. In social networks, now only this book is being discussed,” said a resident of Gimr.
Akhmed, a resident of Makhachkala, who attended the presentation, believes that the book will be of interest only to the scientific community. According to the Dagestani, he learned about the presentation of the book from the social networks of the historian Khadzhimurad Donoy. According to Akhmed, the fact that the subject of the Caucasian War and, in particular, the personality of Imam Shamil is of interest among the inhabitants of Dagestan is positive and "pleases him." Despite the fact that Ibragimov's book itself will be of interest only to the scientific community, it is important to have a correct historical view of the events of the Caucasian War, as well as a correct assessment of certain historical theories, the Dagestani believes.
The "Caucasian War" is the longest military conflict involving the Russian Empire, which dragged on for almost 100 years and was accompanied by heavy casualties from both the Russian and Caucasian peoples. The pacification of the Caucasus did not happen even after the parade of Russian troops in Krasnaya Polyana on May 21, 1864 officially marked the end of the subjugation of the Circassian tribes of the Western Caucasus and the end of the Caucasian war. The armed conflict, which lasted until the end of the 19th century, gave rise to many problems and conflicts, the echoes of which are still heard at the beginning of the 21st century, according to the material "Caucasian War" published in the Directory section.
Dagestan historians supported their colleague
The book of Magomednabi Ibragimov “Imam Shamil. Pages of a biography and criticism of modern attempts to falsify it "is useful and important both for historians specializing in the era of the Caucasian War, and for a wide range of readers, including those who have just begun to get acquainted with the events of this period and with the personality of Imam Shamil, Patimat Takhnaeva believes - Candidate of Historical Sciences, author of the book "Gunib, August 1859. The Last Days of Jihad in Dagestan." The historian emphasized that in his book, Magomednabi Ibragimov professionally, at the same time, in an accessible language, talks about how and when certain myths arose around the origin of Imam Shamil, who was behind their creation.
According to Takhnaeva, the book is "an important and high-quality work that responds to modern attempts to deliberately distort information about the origin of Imam Shamil and the pages of his biography." “I completely agree with the author's statement that by now there has been an information catastrophe on these issues,” she said.
"Magomednabi Ibragimov did a great job - he not only revealed all sorts of distortions in the biography of the imam, caused by the replication of numerous inaccuracies from the sources of Russian and local authors of the 19th century, but also reasonably criticized the "latest studies" of modern authors referring to dubious kinds of statements and sources" - says Takhnaeva.
The historian believes that the author succeeded well in "analyzing the" latest "and groundless version" of the Gigatli origin of Imam Shamil. “The author of the book cannot be reproached for “parochial narrow-mindedness” when presenting the issues of the imam’s genealogy - he carefully considers all known assumptions about the origin of the imam, “Gimrinsky” and “Negimrinsky”, “Lak” and “Kumyk” (sorry, I didn’t mention, for all the absurdity , and the "Georgian" origin of the imam). This is confirmed by the titles of the chapters of his work (“On the Non-Gimrinsky origin of Imam Shamil”, “Shamil’s date of birth”, “Shamil’s birthplace”, “Dengav: grandfather or father?”, “More about the Imam’s ancestors and relatives”),” Takhnaeva said. correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot".
According to Takhnaeva, Magomednabi Ibragimov's book is interesting, written in "good language", "you can hear the author's lively speech."
“The only drawback is that the author, as it turned out, in order to save paper, did not separately list references to scientific and academic reference literature at the end of the book, it is extensive and scattered page by page,” she explained.
At the same time, the work of Magomednabi Ibragimov is a very rare high-quality work, after reading which a person begins to understand certain events of the Caucasian war. “I strongly recommend reading, this is one of those rare works that is the key to understanding many of the events of the Caucasian war,” Patimat Takhnaeva emphasized.
Magomednabi Ibragimov's book is relevant both for a wide range of readers and historians studying the personality of Imam Shamil and the era of the Caucasian War, said Khadzhimurad Donogo , Doctor of Historical Sciences, who was present at the presentation of the book. Ibragimov's work provides answers to questions about the origin and genealogy of Imam Shamil, he noted.
Hadji-Murad Donogo is a Caucasian scholar, doctor of historical sciences, professor, author of many dozens of books and monographs, including about the Caucasian War and Imam Shamil . In October 2019, Dr. Donoy's book "Amanat of the Caucasian War" was published in Makhachkala, dedicated to the eldest son of Imam Shamil, which contains previously unpublished documents from his life. Serious research on the subject of the Caucasian War is in demand in modern society, historians interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" pointed out at the time.
The historian recalled that among the Dagestanis there are different opinions about the belonging of the ancestors of Imam Shamil to different ethnic groups. At the same time, people expressing such an opinion do not rely on specific sources, the specialist noted.
These questions provoke extensive discussions, and not only among professional historians, and Ibragimov's work provides definitive answers to these questions, supported by reliable sources, Donogo believes.
“If a person in the fifth or sixth generation had representatives of some nationality - not the one to which he himself belongs - this is a normal phenomenon. All of us in the family will find interesting people of a completely different nationality than the one that we indicate today. This is a normal phenomenon, especially for Dagestan, on whose territory a large number of nationalities live compactly,” Donogo believes.
He noted that Dagestanis often unreasonably attribute the origin of Imam Shamil and his descendants to various ethnic groups, without citing certain sources and ignoring those sources that already exist, and the reliability of which is beyond doubt.
The allegations that Imam Shamil is not a representative of the Avar nationality are unfounded, moreover, the one who claims this opposes himself to historical reality, the historian believes.
“Shamil was born in the Avar village of Gimry. His parents were Avars. How can one say that Shamil is not an Avar? However, it is possible that some ancestors of the imam were representatives of other Dagestan nationalities, but even arguing this, one must adhere to the argument: some documents, memoirs of the contemporaries of the imam, ”Donogo explained.
As an example, the historian cited the statement of the son-in-law of Imam Shamil Abdurakhman Kazi-Kumukhsky that among the ancestors of Imam Shamil "in the fifth generation on the maternal side was Ali from Kazi-Kumukh" ( Kazi-Kumukh is a village in Dagestan, the administrative center of the Laksky district and municipal formation of the same name - note "Caucasian Knot" ).
In 2019, residents of Dagestan and theologians protested the words of Ramzan Kadyrov, who accused Imam Shamil of repressions against Chechens for their unwillingness to oppose the Russian Empire. Later, Kadyrov repeatedly emphasized that he treated Shamil and the Dagestanis with respect. The questions that the head of Chechnya voiced about the role of Imam Shamil should not remain unanswered , the participants of the round table "Imam Shamil and the Caucasian War: How History is Distorted" decided on October 2 in Makhachkala.
“Basically, this book is intended for historians specializing in the personality of Imam Shamil and the period of the Caucasian War. But it will also be useful for the average reader - a lover of Russian history," Donogo explained, adding that for "newcomers" who have just begun to be interested in the personality of Shamil and the events of the Caucasian War, this book will not be easy for a primary acquaintance with the personality of the imam and with the events of that war. “In order to understand this book, one must have at least a small base on the topic of the Caucasian War, and initial information about the personality of Imam Shamil,” the historian believes.
Analyzing the genealogy of Imam Shamil, in his book Ibragimov relies on a number of authoritative sources. In particular, Donogo pointed out to the memoirs of Shamil's contemporaries, who repeatedly met with the imam and had conversations with him.
“These are Dagestan authors - contemporaries of Shamil, as well as Russian authors - contemporaries of the Imam, who met with Imam Shamil and had long conversations with him,” the historian said. According to Donogo, among such interlocutors of the imam were those who resorted to the help of translators, but there were also Russian officials who spoke with the imam without an interpreter. “Among them were people who knew Arabic, so they talked with Shamil without an interpreter - directly, which is very important. Such conversations, in particular, were between the Imam and Colonel Boguslavsky. He was fluent in Arabic. Also Mirza Kazem-bek, who met Shamil twice in St. Petersburg, and then corresponded with him. These are the sources cited by Ibragimov,” Khadzhimurad Donogo explained.
Among the Dagestan sources on which the author relies in his book, Donogo also mentioned Muhammad Tahir al Qarahi, Abdurahman Kazikumukhsky.
Khadzhimurad Donogo highly appreciated the activities of Ibragimov and recalled that the author had already published more than 20 books on the subject of the Caucasian War. Each of these books has scientific value, the historian noted.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:50 Explosions sounded again in Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, Ukrainian Telegram channels report 21:21 Explosions are reported in Kupyansk, Kharkiv region.
19:11 Starobelsk direction setting as of 19.00 February 5, 2023
In the Kupyansky sector, Russian servicemen are fixed at the previously occupied lines in Tavolzhanka and in the vicinity of Gryanikovka.
Against the backdrop of the offensive of the RF Armed Forces, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a rotation of the personnel of the 103rd and 109th separate brigades of the territorial defense in the area of Sinkovka and Kupyansk-Uzlovy, reinforcing the group with fresh forces.
The enemy is actively conducting reconnaissance activities, sending several DRGs in the vicinity of Raygorodok to search for Russian positions.
At the same time, Ukrainian fighters located in Berestovo are actively using quadrocopters operating in the area of Kuzemovka and Vladimirovka for this purpose.
In the Liman sector, soldiers of the 144th Motorized Rifle Division stormed the stronghold of the Ukrainian army in the Yampolovka area, eliminating several enemy fighters.
Not far from Makiivka, Russian military personnel were able to take up positions at a tactically important height, knocking out the Armed Forces of Ukraine from a stronghold. Fighting in the area continues.
Fierce battles continue in the heights near the Zhuravka gully: 66th Brigade and 25th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to counterattack on the positions of the 3rd Mmotorized Rifle Division of the Russian army.
Taking advantage of the operational pause, Ukrainian servicemen are trying to take out the damaged equipment of the 25th Air Assault Brigade for repairs to the rear.
Strengthening the defensive lines, the enemy command transferred several units of armored vehicles, removed from storage in warehouses near the Desna in the Chernihiv region, to the village of Redkodub.
19:03 Mobilized Armed Forces of the 25th Airborne Brigade (Dnipropetrovsk region)askbuy bulletproof vests and other military equipment from volunteers.
Instead of the promised normal equipment, the brigade is handing out worn helmets and body armor, with the call signs of the liquidated owners.
18:33 Crew of 122mm MLRS BM-21 "Grad" sends fiery gifts to the positions of the Ukrainians -video
18:16 Another column of vehicles of Russian troops in the area of the special military operation -video
17:41 Chubanoid shows what is left of the ammunition transport vehicle and dead brothers —video
17:39 Ukrainian armored car "Kozak" after hitting an anti-tank mine -video
17:38 Russian units continue to actively kick out the Ukrainians from the settlement. Maryinka -video
17:37 RF Armed Forces are continuously working on Ukrainian positions non-stop, not letting them raise their heads -video
17:36 Attack UAVs of 132nd Brigade destroy equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video
The operator of the strike drone of the 132nd Brigade of the Donetsk 1st Army Corps (formerly the 3rd Brigade of the NM of the DPR) hit another pickup truck of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with a well-aimed bomb drop.
17:02 Ugledarskiy section setting as of 17.00 February 5, 2023
In the area of Ugledar, the situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has seriously deteriorated. The activity of Russian artillery and regular raids by Russian assault groups led to huge losses in manpower.
To stabilize the situation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine transferred part of the reserves previously intended to hold the Bakhmut garrison. About 100 people arrived from Bogatyr through Bogoyavlenka to Ugledar.
Yesterday, personnel of the 21st battalion of the 56th Motorized Infantry Brigade, equipped with UAVs with night vision devices, were also deployed to the combat area.
Engineer units of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade in Ugledar carry out mining of residential areas and multi-storey buildings in case of a breakthrough of the defense.
In addition, in the vicinity of Vuhledar, the indigenous people of the DPR are involved in the Ukrainian formations. To prevent flight from the battlefield, the nationalists of the 226th battalion "Kraken" were transferred to the second line as detachments.
17:00 Militants of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces fled from their positions in the Kupyansky district!
Residents of the small village of Sinkovka in the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region found that the militants of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade, who were in the village, fled, leaving their weapons and equipment behind.
We managed to find out that the residents of Lvov, mobilized in the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade, organized their flight in the best traditions of detective films. Back in the fall, construction equipment from the Lviv region was delivered to the Kupyansky district. Naturally, local men were put to work on it ...
However, over the past few days, all construction equipment has been taken back. For its return transportation, workers from Kupyansk were used, however, as it turned out, Lviv mobilized soldiers were in work uniforms, who successfully hid in their small homeland.
Apparently, the offensive of Russian troops in the region is gaining momentum. Judging by the hysterical comments of the Nazis in local chats, the “Battle for Kupyansk” has already begun.
16:48 The militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refused to go to the positions without weapons - the commander beat them -video
In this situation, many are only interested in one question: why don't the fighters just finish off their offender!?
However, everything is ahead. History goes in a spiral.
16:14 This night, as a result of a missile attack on the temporary deployment point of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the kindergarten "Aist" in Druzhkovka, there weredestroyed12 Ukrainian warriors, seven more were taken to the Druzhkovskaya hospital with injuries of varying severity. In total, there was about a platoon in it.
15:00 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress holding special military operation (05.02.2023)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
In the Kupyansk direction, artillery fire from the Western Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on units of the 14th and 92nd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka, Ivanovka, Berestovoye of the Kharkov region and Novoselovskoye of the Luhansk People's Republic.
In addition, in the areas of the settlements of Gryanikovka, Liman Pervy, Kotlyarovka of the Kharkiv region, as well as the Popov forest in the Luhansk People's Republic, the activities of six sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were stopped. Up to 35 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored combat vehicle and two vehicles were destroyed.
In the Krasno-Limansk direction, as a result of artillery fire and successful offensive operations by units of the "Center" grouping of troops, units of the 25th airborne, 71st Jaeger, 95th airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 27th Brigade of the National Guard in the areas settlements of Novosadovoe, Yampolovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Stelmahovka, Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic, as well as Serebryansky forestry.
Enemy losses per day in this direction amounted to over 120 Ukrainian servicemen, an infantry fighting vehicle and three armored combat vehicles.
In the Donetsk direction, during the offensive operations, units of the "Southern" group of troops took up more advantageous lines and positions. The group's missile forces and artillery defeated accumulations of manpower and equipment of the 110th mechanized, 35th and 36th naval infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the 118th territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Spornoe, Avdievka and Krasnogorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
During the day, more than 115 Ukrainian servicemen, three infantry fighting vehicles, four vehicles, as well as a 152mm D-20 howitzer and a 122mm D-30 howitzer were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Yasnobrodovka and Pobeda of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Over 130 Ukrainian servicemen of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Vuhledar of the Donetsk People's Republic and the 110th Territorial Defense Brigade were killed in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions as a result of artillery fire and active actions of the units of the Vostok group of forces. near the settlement of Novodarovka, Zaporozhye region.
In addition, two tanks, an infantry fighting vehicle, two armored combat vehicles, two vehicles, a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, as well as 122mm D-30 and 152mm D-20 howitzers were destroyed in these areas in the areas of the settlements of Gulyai Pole, Zaporozhye region and Vodiane, Donetsk Narodnaya Republic.
A warehouse of artillery ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the settlement of Ugledar.
In the Kherson direction, a 122mm D-30 howitzer and a 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer were destroyed in the course of a counter-battery fight in the areas of the settlements of Kachkarovka and Dneprovskoe, Kherson region.
The missile troops and artillery of the groupings of troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 24 hours inflicted defeat on 111 artillery units at firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 142 districts.
Air defense systems destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Yegorovka in the Donetsk People's Republic and Aleshki in the Kherson region.
In addition, 11 missiles of the 220mm Uragan and HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems were shot down in the area of the settlements of Volnovakha in the Donetsk People's Republic and Tokmak in the Zaporozhye region during the day.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 382 aircraft, 206 helicopters, 3,023 unmanned aerial vehicles, 403 anti-aircraft missile systems, 7,750 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,007 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 4,003 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 8,272 units of special military vehicles.
14:26 Footage paint: our fighters are destroying the enemy detachment, the Armed Forces are trying to crawl away, the BMP is carried away in horror, leaving its own.
Artillery of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps spoiled the militants' plans for evacuation. The Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle, having fallen under massive artillery fire, left its unfortunate soldiers to the mercy of fate. Their fate turned out to be unenviable: all - a load of wounded in action.
14:20Ukrainians continue to suffer colossal irretrievable losses -video
Night evacuation of Ukrainian KIAs under mortar arrivals in the area of the settlement. Krasnogorovka
14:09 132nd Brigade destroyed the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -drone recorded the evacuation of the bodies of the destroyed Ukrainian militants
Artillerymen of the 132nd Brigade of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps (formerly the 3rd Brigade of the NM of the DPR) covered the transport and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at a camouflaged shelter. The drone recorded the evacuation of the bodies of the destroyed Ukrainian militants.
13:22 Grenades, TNT and gunpowder - revealed in Zaporozhye news hron
Law enforcers found a cache of ammunition in one of the garages in Berdyansk.
Operational officers received information that in one of the garages located in the garage cooperative of the city of Berdyansk there is a cache with weapons.
Upon verification, the information was confirmed. In an abandoned garage, law enforcement officers found: five grenades of various modifications, two fuses for grenades, TNT checkers and five kilograms of gunpowder at the bottom.
During the inspection, it was established that the garage belongs to a citizen of Ukraine, who was a member of the Battalion-Azov nationalist corps, and the suspect is currently in the territory controlled by Ukraine.
Found seized and sent for examination.
12:51Ukrainians, under fire from Russian artillery, tried to evacuate the Kirpi armored car in the Bakhmut (Artyomovsky) section with the help of a tank, but something went wrong -video
12:21 Destroye APU in Druzhkovka
Another point of temporary accommodation of personnel was destroyed by Russian troops. The photograph clearly shows the firewood used by the AFU militants to heat the premises.
Residents in chats confirm the use of this premise of the kindergarten by the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:38 Thunderstorm of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and their priority goal: footage of the work of one of the most powerful weapons in the NVO zone - "Sunshine" -video
This is a multiple launch rocket system with thermobaric ammunition, which differs from the usual ones in that the danger is not shrapnel, but burns.
She has 24 rockets, but usually one is used - this is enough. It is almost impossible to survive within a radius of 150 m from the place of impact. You can't hide behind a wall from such weapons - you can only defend yourself in a sealed bunker.
11:37 Artemovsk:
At night, in the direction of Fedorovka - Blagodatnoe, with forces of up to 20 people and one infantry fighting vehicle, the enemy attempted to conduct reconnaissance in force and was destroyed by advanced detachments.
PMC "Wagner" carried out offensive operations in the direction of Kleshcheevka - Krasnoe and captured the company post, as well as captured one of the quarters of Artemovsk.
11:35 Artillery of the 132nd Brigade inflicted heavy losses on the enemy - UAV recorded the evacuation of the bodies of the destroyed Ukrainian militants -video
Artillerymen of the 132nd Brigade of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps (previously the 3rd Brigade of the NM DPR) covered the transport and manpower of the enemy, who were near the camouflaged shelter. In the course of conducting an objective control of the results of the fire damage, with the help of UAVs, the evacuation of the bodies of the destroyed Ukrainian militants was recorded.
11:12 Pinpoint bombing from LPR intelligence. Soledar direction -video
11:08 RF Armed Forces are already tight approached to Torskoye, according to Ukrainian sources.
10:17Ukrainians are trying to pull out the 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount that has stuck to the ground with a hitch, but it doesn’t work out for them -video
09:42 Combat work of the crews of the attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of the special operation -video
09:38 Air alarm declared in several regions of Ukraine: in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Sumy, Chernihiv and Kyiv-controlled part of Zaporozhye regions. Ukrainian telegram channels report the first arrivals in Kharkiv.
09:06 In the Kherson region, in the zoo of the reserve, the police found cache APU with cartridges
02/03/2023 police officers with the support of the security forces during the inspection of the zoo in the village. Askania-Nova in the Chaplinsky municipal district of the Kherson region, where the natural park and reserve of the same name is located, a cache of ammunition buried in the ground was found in the thickets of bushes not far from the fence.
Four zinc were extracted from it, in which there were 100 cartridges of caliber 7.62 mm and 2722 caliber 5.45 mm.
Further verification is underway.
Systematic work to counter the illicit trafficking in weapons and ammunition in the region continues
08:31 "Repulsed, worked out": combat work of motorized rifle units and crews of the AGS-17 "Flame" ZVO in the special operation zone -video
Combat missions in the units of the Western Military District are performed by military personnel called up from the reserve as part of partial mobilization.
In one of the directions in the special operation zone, data were received on the buildup of enemy forces. Scouts of the Western Military District reported the movement of several armed groups and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Armed formations of Ukrainian nationalists attempted to dislodge units of the RF Armed Forces from their positions.
Calculations of 30mm automatic mounted grenade launchers AGS-17 "Flame", under cover of fire from small arms, defeated the enemy on the outskirts of the positions. The enemy attack was repulsed by the coordinated actions of the motorized rifle unit.
“There was an offensive from the side of the landings. Reflected. Worked out. Now everything is fine, everything is calm. About two groups of six people were spotted. Corrected. Worked out. Everything is fine. We need to defend our Motherland, ”shared the crew number of the AGS-17 grenade launcher with the call sign Terrible.
08:29 A fighter of the Wagner group spoke about heavy urban battles for the southern quarters of Artemovsk. In two days of storming enemy positions, Wagner snipers destroyed a group of Georgian mercenaries -video
According to the soldier, the mercenaries have not been seen since January, and now Kyiv is throwing more and more new units, replenishing the losses at the expense of the mobilized.
08:25 Feel like a tanker of the "O" group:framesdestruction of Ukrainian militants from the place of the commander of the vehicle
Tanks continue to destroy the enemy from forest plantations near Svatovo. In the video, you can see how the tank is hit by a high-explosive fragmentation projectile right in the place where the militants are standing.
08:06 Summary on the morning of February 5, 2023
The Russian Armed Forces are attacking in the Kupyansk direction, there are battles for the settlement. Dvurechnoe at 17 north of Kupyansk. Our troops are approaching the river. Oskol.
Data are coming in about the successes of units of the Russian Army advancing from the Kremennaya area in the direction of the settlement. Torsk. South of Kremennaya in Belogorovka, the enemy is trying to strike at our units.
Developing the offensive in the Soledar direction, Wagner PMCs approached Razdolovka and Vasyukovka.
To the north of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) fighting in the area of Krasnaya Gora, the enemy is forced to withdraw some units due to losses. Battles are going on in Artemovsk itself, to the south of the city the zone of control of our forces is expanding, which allows us to strike at the supply roads to the city.
In the Nikolaev region, strikes were made on targets in Ochakovo at night
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are actively creating new defensive positions in Chasov Yar and Konstantinovka, fearing the collapse of the defense in Artemovsk, from which videos with retreating small groups of enemy soldiers appear. Equipment and personnel are being transferred to Chasov Yar from the rear.
In the Belgorod region, the village of Krasnoye in the Shebekinsky urban district came under fire.
In the LPR from the HIMARS MLRS (three missiles) fired at the settlement. Svatovo. The building of the garment factory and the garage were destroyed.
The enemy fired 204 rounds of ammunition at the civilian population of the DPR. Under enemy fire, Donetsk, Gorlovka, Yakovlevka, Yasinovataya, Mineralnoe, Makeevka, Karlo-Marksovo. Two civilians were killed. The shelling continued throughout the night.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 02/05/2023 to 00:00 02/06/2023
Over the past day Representation reported about 25 facts of firing by the VFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 10 artillery attacks from 155mm and 152mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky 10 artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky three artillery attacks from artillery 155mm and 152mm.
On Volnovakhskoe two artillery attacks from MLRS, artillery 155mm.
Having fired 126 units of various ammunition.
The district of six settlements of the Republic came under enemy fire: the capital city. Donetsk (Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Horlovka (Nikitovsky district), Mineralnoe, Yasinovataya, Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district), Volnovakha.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of two civilians in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
Wounds of varying severity were received by five civilians in the Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, as well as in the previously liberated Volnovakha.
A total of 15 housing constructions were damaged in Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Volnovakha and Yasinovataya, as well as 1 civil infrastructure facility.
Previously, 46 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU per day.
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21:08 According to eyewitnesses, Petrovsky district of Donetsk was subjected to shelling. The information is being specified.
20:30 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for February 5, received additional information on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Volnovaha:
- on the street. Donetsk, 169, a woman born in 1995 suffered.
- on the street. Sverdlova, 46, a woman born in 1984 suffered.
Received additional information on damages as a result of artillery attackof the VFU cities of the Republic:
n.p. Volnovaha:
- st. Sverdlova, 56 - a private residential building; direct hit in the outbuilding.
Information about the consequences of artillery attacks continue to arrive.
19:57 Consequences of the artillery attacks of the city of Kremennaya (LPR) by the armed formations of Ukraine
As a result of artillery attacks, Kremennaya with the use of 155mm artillery guns (four rounds), seven civilians were injured, and nine residential buildings were damaged.
19:00 Starobelsk direction: situation as of 19.00 February 5, 2023
-- In the Kupyansky sector, Russian servicemen are fixed at the previously occupied lines in Tavolzhanka and in the vicinity of Gryanikovka.
-- Against the backdrop of the offensive of the RF Armed Forces, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a rotation of the personnel of the 103rd and 109th separate brigades of the territorial defense in the area of Sinkovka and Kupyansk-Uzlovy, reinforcing the group with fresh forces.
-- The enemy is actively conducting reconnaissance activities, sending several DRGs in the vicinity of Raygorodok to search for Russian positions.
At the same time, Ukrainian fighters located in Berestovo are actively using quadrocopters operating in the area of Kuzemovka and Vladimirovka for this purpose.
In the Liman sector, soldiers of the 144th Motorized Rifle Division stormed the stronghold of the Ukrainian army in the Yampolovka area, eliminating several enemy fighters.
-- Not far from Makiivka, Russian military personnel were able to take up positions at a tactically important height, knocking out the Armed Forces of Ukraine from a stronghold. Fighting in the area continues.
-- Fierce battles continue in the heights near the Zhuravka gully: 66th Brigade and 25th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to counterattack on the positions of the 3rd Motorized Rifle Division of the Russian army.
-- Taking advantage of the operational pause, Ukrainian servicemen are trying to take out the damaged equipment of the 25th Air Assault Brigade for repairs to the rear.
-- Strengthening the defensive lines, the enemy command transferred several units of armored vehicles, removed from storage in warehouses near the Desna in the Chernihiv region, to the village of Redkodub.
18:30 Russian military narrow enemy in the Kupyansk direction
Servicemen of the 14th Mechanized Brigade of the Kiev regime fled from positions near the village of Sinkovka. The trophies of the Russian military were the BMP-2 abandoned by the enemy, the MT-LB tractor, as well as small arms and equipment.
17:00 Artillery attack was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine: on the settlement. Flint with the use of artillery guns 155mm (four rounds).
16:45 According to updated information, as a result of punitive shelling, Petrovsky district of Donetsk after direct hits to an apartment on the street. Stakhanov, a woman born in 1947 died in the Tikhiy microdistrict.
16:15 Statement by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Konashenkov I.E. as of February 5, 2023
-- In the Krasno-Limansky direction, the enemy's losses amounted to over 120 Ukrainian servicemen, an infantry fighting vehicle and three armored fighting vehicles;
-- In the Kupyansk direction, up to 35 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored combat vehicle and two vehicles were destroyed;
-- The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation took more advantageous lines and positions in the Donetsk direction, over 115 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in a day;
-- During the day, Russian air defense systems shot down two drones and 11 rounds of the 220mm Uragan MLRS and HIMARS APU;
-- The RF Armed Forces defeated four brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Spornoye, Avdievka and Krasnogorovka in the DPR;
-- More than 4,000 field artillery pieces and mortars of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been destroyed by the Russian army since the beginning of the special operation.
15:23 artillery attackof the Petrovsky district of Donetsk does not stop. New six rounds of 155mm caliber were fired at 15:10 a.m. the village of Kurakhovo.
13:08 Russian Armed Forces units destroy enemy equipment in the Seversk direction.
12:08 Soledarskoye direction: situation towards the end of February 4, 2023
-- In the Soledar sector, the assault detachments of the Wagner PMC are attacking the positions of the 10th Airborne of the Airborne Forces of Ukraine on the outskirts of Razdolovka, and are also moving westward from the village of Sakko and Vanzetti to Vasyukovka.
-- Fighting continues in the vicinity of Krasnaya Gora and Paraskovievka. The enemy suffers significant losses: the Ukrainian command withdrew in the direction of Slavyansk separate units of the 46th detachment of the DShV and the 147th about 116th TRO from Krasnaya Gora.
-- Ukrainian crews of UAVs track the areas of advance of the RF Armed Forces and provide target designation of cannon and rocket artillery in the vicinity of Blagodatny.
-- In Bakhmut, the "Wagnerites" entered the Stupka area in the north of the city. Fierce battles are going on in urban areas. Statements about a breakthrough in the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not correspond to reality - Ukrainian formations continue to resist.
At the same time, the partial withdrawal of units from the northern suburbs of Bakhmut and the departure of 63rd Mechanized Brigade yesterday from the city indicate preparations for a possible surrender of the garrison. Now the Armed Forces of Ukraine are concentrating their efforts on holding the route to Chasy Yar in order to preserve the logistics hub.
-- At the same time, intense fighting continues in the industrial zone on the eastern outskirts, as well as in residential areas in the southern part of the city, where assault detachments are attacking the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Pervyi Radyansky Street.
-- Southwest of Bakhmut, Russian units are advancing in the direction of the section of the Chasov Yar-Bakhmut highway. The Wagnerites advanced towards Krasnoe - less than one and a half kilometers remained to the suburbs.
-- The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is transferring manpower and armored vehicles from Konstantinovka to the vicinity of Chasov Yar. At the same time, additional defensive lines are being prepared in Konstantinovka itself.
-- Russian artillery is conducting a massive artillery attackof enemy reinforcements on the Konstantinovka - Chasov Yar - Bakhmut highway.
11:27 Point bombing from intelligence LPR. Soledar direction.
10:49 In the north of Artemovsk, there is a fight for every house and every street - Prigozhin
The head of the Wagner PMC said that fierce battles were taking place in the northern outskirts of Artemovsk (Bakhmut). The Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to him, are putting up fierce resistance.
10:26 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for February 4, received additional information on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kyiv region):
- the bodies of a woman born in 1993 were removed from the rubble. and men born in 1989
Thus, the general quantity civilian casualties from attacks by the VFU on February 4, 2023 is eight people (four killed, four injured).
The information continues to flow.
Information about the consequences of artillery attack continues to arrive.
10:03 Frontline summary on the morning of 02/05/2023
In the Uludar sector, Russian artillery struck at Vremevka, Bolshaya Novosyolka, Prechistovka and Bogoyavlenka. She also worked closely around the city itself. The parties did not conduct active hostilities on the ground. (Fig. 1)
On the Donetsk front, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation also mainly used artillery. Under fire Novomikhailovka, the western part of Maryinka, Georgievka, Thin, Vodyanoye and New York. The Armed Forces of Ukraine responded with strikes on Donetsk, Yasinovataya, Panteleymonovka and Gorlovka. On the ground, Russian troops attacked from the Experimental side and in the direction of Pervomaisky. (Fig. 2)
To the south-west of Bakhmut, the Wagner PMC is pushing in the direction of Ivanovskoye in order to cut the road to Konstantinovka, which is about two kilometers from the contact line. APU put up fierce resistance. Wagner operators also attack on the eastern outskirts of the city. Slowly, but moving forward. And from the north they are conducting offensive operations from Podgorodny.
In this section, the Wagner operators are already on the outskirts of Bakhmut.
Also PMC "Wagner" is trying to get to Paraskovievka and stormed Krasnaya Gora. The main efforts are from the south of this fortified area of ??the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukrainian positions in Rozdolivka, Veseloe and Sporny are under artillery fire. East of Seversk, Russian troops attacked in the area of ??Verkhnekamenskoye. (Fig. 3)
In the Luhansk direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are conducting active offensive operations from Dibrova to the south-west of Kremennaya. They also attacked towards Nevsky. To the north - an attempt to move towards Makeevka and Grekovka (Fig. 4)
09:20 Chronicle of blows and mutual shelling in the NWO zone for the night from January 4 to February 5, 2023
Russian gunners worked on targets in Senkovka, Chernihiv region, and Boyar-Lezhachi, Sumy region.
In the Kharkiv region, units of the RF Armed Forces hit the accumulation of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Volchansk, Budarki, Bolshoy Burluk, Chugunovka, Aleksandrovka and Staritsa.
In the Starobelsky direction, Russian troops attacked enemy positions in Kupyansk, Novomlynsk, Dvurechnaya, Sinkovka, Nevsky, Novoselovsky and Terny.
On the Bakhmutsky (Artemovsky) direction, the RF Armed Forces worked on the defensive structures of the Ukrainian army in Bakhmut, Veseloe, Razdolovka, Belaya Gora and the vicinity of Krasnoye.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine, in turn, fired at Kleshcheevka, Ozaryanovka and Mayorsk.
In the Donetsk direction, Russian forces attacked the location of Ukrainian formations in Druzhkovka. In addition, enemy positions in Avdeevka, Pervomaisky, Maryinka and Pobeda were hit.
The enemy fired at the civilian infrastructure of Donetsk, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya and Mineralny.
In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction, the RF Armed Forces worked on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novomikhailovka, Vugledar, Bogovyavlenka, Neskuchny and Bolshaya Novoselka.
Artillery duels continue in the Zaporozhye region: Russian troops hit enemy manpower in Orekhovo, Gulyaipole, Shcherbak, Malaya Tokmachka and Charivne.
On the southern sector of the front, the RF Armed Forces carried out strikes on the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kherson, Antonovka and Ochakovka.
08:11 First video(left) - the enemy military leaves Bakhmut (Artemovsk), while they say that the situation in the city is hell, they complain about the losses and the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The second video (also from the enemy) is a clash of the 241st Battalion of the Ukrainian Troops and Defense Forces with fighters from the Wagner PMC in Bakhmut (Artyomovsk), on Glinyanaya Street.
At this time, more and more information is being received about the promotion of Wagner PMC in the city, it is reported that strategically important areas have been taken under control - I will publish more after official confirmation or in reports from respected observers.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[REGNUM] In place of the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Alexei Reznikov, who will soon be dismissed, the head of the main intelligence department of the ministry, Kirill Budanov, will be appointed . This was reported by RBC-Ukraine.
The leader of the faction of the Servant of the People party in the Verkhovna Rada, David Arakhmia, called such a decision "absolutely logical for wartime."
It is also reported that the Security Service of Ukraine will be headed by Vasily Malysh, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country - by Igor Klymenko.
As REGNUM reported , the decision on the resignation of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov was submitted to the next meeting of the Verkhovna Rada. It is assumed that later he will head the Ministry of Strategic Industries.
Commentary in italics by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
Video is translatable into English
[ColonelCassad] A new video has been released from the "Indigenous Council of Workers" dedicated to the first Chechen war and the participation of the GRU special forces in the operations of the beginning of the war.
Annotation:
January 1995 remains the darkest month in the history of the Russian GRU special forces.
A number of dramatic events took place that month. Why did this become possible and why do these lessons remain relevant to this day?
Sources:
S. Kozlov. GRU special forces. Timelessness.
S. Kondratenko. War assignment.
Milyukov P., Yauk K. I am "Caliber-10".
V. Dmitriev. Caucasian captives, or Christmas "holidays".
[MAIL] A former US Marine working as a volunteer medic in Ukraine was killed while evacuating civilians from Bakhmut in the east of the country.
Pete Reed, 33, died on February 2 after his ambulance was struck by a missile while he was evacuating people from the besieged city, which has become a focus of Putin's efforts.
It happened as another evacuation team near Reed's came under attack, requiring him to respond and render aid, his wife Alex Potter told the Washington Post.
Reed served two deployments as a Marine rifleman in Afghanistan and started the nonprofit Global Response Medicine with Potter in 2017.
He is one of at least seven Americans to have died in Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022.
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[New Voice of Ukriane] The Russian military is moving multiple launch rocket systems, air defense systems and troops to the port in Mariupol, advisor to the city's mayor Petro Andriushchenko said in a Telegram post on Feb. 6.
[New Voice of Eukraine] Igor Mangushev, a Russian mercenary and propagandist, who months ago staged a gruesome stunt in which he brandished the skull allegedly of one of the fallen Ukrainian defenders of Azovstal, has been shot in the head, Ukrainian journalist Denys Kazanskyi reported on Telegram on Feb. 5.
