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[LB] But at the same time, the Russians are installing anti-tank barriers in their Belgorod region.
by Iryna Lysohor
372 days of large-scale Russian invasion began. The main efforts of the enemy are concentrated on conducting offensive operations in the Kupyan, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Shakhtar directions.
Last day, our defenders repelled more than 170 enemy attacks on them. This is stated in the message of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook.
In total, the Russian occupiers launched 14 rocket attacks on civilian objects in the Kharkiv, Poltava and Donetsk regions. There are wounded civilians, high-rise apartment buildings and private houses are damaged. The invaders also carried out 21 airstrikes, including two Shahed-136 UAVs. Strike drones shot down. The enemy carried out 58 attacks from rocket salvo systems.
The level of the threat of missile strikes by the Russian occupiers is very high throughout the territory of Ukraine.
In the Volyn, Poliske, Siversk and Slobozhansk directions, the formation of offensive groups of the enemy was not detected . During the day, the enemy shelled the settlements of Yeline and Baranivka of the Chernihiv region; Rozhkovichi, Starykove, Girky, Atynske, Stukalyvka, Budky, Volfine, Turya, Grabovske of Sumy region and Chervona Zorya, Veterinarne, Strelecha, Krasne, Ternova, Okhrimivka, Potikhonove, Dvorichna, and Kindrasivka of Kharkiv region. It used an unmanned aerial vehicle with a combat load near Budarok, Kharkiv region.
In the border areas of the Belgorod region, the enemy continues engineering equipment of the area, installs anti-tank barricades.
On the Kupyan and Lyman directions, the enemy carried out offensive actions in the areas of Kreminna and Bilogorivka settlements in the Luhansk region and Spirne in the Donetsk region . There was no success. He carried out artillery shelling of the areas of settlements of Masyutivka, Lyman Pershiy, Kupyansk, Kislivka of the Kharkiv region; Kuzemivka, Makiivka, Kreminna, Bilogorivka, Dibrova in the Luhansk region and Zvanivka in the Donetsk region.
The enemy continues to advance in the direction of Bakhmut. Storms the city of Bakhmut. Our defenders repelled attacks in the areas of Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Dubovo-Vasylivka, Bakhmut and Ivanivske settlements. Bondarne, Zaliznyanske, Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Dubovo-Vasylivka, Bakhmut, Ivanovske, Klishchiivka, Chasiv Yar and New York of the Donetsk region came under enemy fire.
In the Avdiyiv and Shakhtar directions, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive actions in the direction of the settlements of Kamianka, Severne, Vodyane, Nevelske and Maryinka. The areas of Avdiivka, Lastochkine, Berdychi, Vodyane, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Georgiivka, Bogoyavlenka, Velyka Novosilka and Neskuchne in Donetsk region were shelled.
In the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions, the enemy is defending itself, in some areas it is trying to create conditions for the transition to the offensive. He carried out artillery shelling of more than 45 districts of populated areas. Among them are Mala Tokmachka and Novoandriivka of the Zaporizhzhia region, as well as Dobra Nadiya, Nikopol, Zmiivka, Kozatske, Novosilka, Inzhenerne, Bilozerka, Dniprovske and the city of Kherson.
Over the past 24 hours, our aviation has carried out 16 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment of the occupiers. Also, our defenders shot down an enemy unmanned aerial vehicle of the "Orlan-10" type. Units of rocket forces and artillery hit one enemy concentration area, two ammunition depots and three other important enemy objects.
We will remind you that the high threat of a missile attack was emphasized in the operational command "South" yesterday. The Russians kept a large naval group with missile carriers in the Black Sea.
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North #Bakhmut - The situation is still tense, although the advance has so far stalled just south of Stupky.
East #Bakhmut the situation has worsened. Wagner forces have taken control of the area around the art winery containing taller buildings
South #Bakhmut, the AFU has launched a local counter-attack around Ivanivske, footage surfaced of the Aidar battalion attacking under cover of APCs.
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[Korrespondent] 22:58 On Friday, March 3, the United States will announce another package of military assistance to Ukraine, said John Kirby, coordinator of the White House National Security Council. According to him, the new package will include ammunition for HIMARS and artillery shells.
22:34 Russia is talking about "Ukrainian saboteurs", Ukraine is talking about a "classic provocation", and the so-called Russian volunteer corps is taking responsibility. This is how they commented on the incident in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation, where several men unfurled the RDK flag on video and called on the Russians to "revolt and fight." Read more in Who are they?
21:39 The United States does not transfer intelligence to Ukraine for strikes on Russian territory, said Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder.
21:26 Zelensky said that today he held a meeting of the Headquarters "purely on the front-line situation and security issues." "Commanders are well aware that their task is to do everything to suppress the fire of terrorists. And we are constantly working with partners to increase the range of our capabilities," the president stressed.
20:48 Russia can produce 20 new and upgrade up to 90 old tanks per month, writes The Economist. New tanks are produced in the Russian Federation by only one enterprise - Uralvagonzavod.
19:59 Less than 5,000 local residents remain in Bakhmut, among them 37 children, said Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk OVA. According to him, these families are in different places and do not want to leave, hiding from evacuation.
19:12 Mandatory evacuation of families with children and people with limited mobility has begun from the Kupyansky community of the Kharkiv region, the OVA reported. This decision was made due to the constant shelling of the territory of the community by Russian troops. Currently, 812 children, 724 people with disabilities, are registered in the Kupyanskaya community, 140 of whom are people with limited mobility. Everyone will be provided with accommodation and food, humanitarian aid and medical support.
19:08 Ukraine will file a complaint against Iran with the International Criminal Court regarding the provision of strike drones to Russia, Shmyhal said in an interview with Al Arabiya. The prime minister stressed that it is necessary to put pressure on Tehran to stop supporting Moscow and prevent Iran from transferring missiles to Russia.
19:03 Leading countries of the world propose three models for the creation of a special tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, said the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy Denis Maslov. He specified that Kyiv offered two of them.
The main model that Ukraine would like is the creation of a tribunal on the basis of a resolution of the UN General Assembly. "It will be a higher legitimacy, which means that Russian criminals will be prosecuted all over the world," Maslov explained.
The second model provides for the conclusion of a multilateral international agreement, according to which Russian criminals can be detained on the basis of a warrant in countries that support Ukraine and join the special tribunal.
The third option is "hybrid": we are talking about the work of international judges in the national system of organs. According to Maslov, Kyiv considers this model the least successful, because it does not remove the issue of the immunity of Putin, Lavrov and Mishustin.
18:42 Zelensky said that he had the first conversation with the new President of Switzerland, Alain Berset, thanked for the support package for 114 million Swiss francs, discussed joint projects and the Ukrainian formula for peace.
18:36 The FSB of the Russian Federation announced that as a result of the measures taken, "the sortie of Ukrainian nationalists in the Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region has been stopped." The department said that "in order to avoid civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure, the enemy was squeezed into the territory of Ukraine, where a massive artillery strike was inflicted on him."
18:20 In many schools in the Kherson region, the occupiers have introduced mandatory so-called "cadet classes" starting from the first grade. For these students, it is mandatory to wear a uniform and additional classes in "patriotic" education, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined.
Due to the shortage of teachers, pro-Russian local residents without a pedagogical education, mostly over 50 years of age, are hired. In accordance with Russian legislation, they are automatically enrolled in correspondence courses in specialized universities of the Russian Federation.
The Russians have tightened their filtration measures in the occupied territories of Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. In particular, representatives of the FSB arrived in the settlements of Peschanovka and Poyma in the Kherson region. They conduct mass searches of residential premises, checking phones. The main attention is paid to people whose relatives left for the unoccupied part of Ukraine.
18:08 Zelensky appointed Roman Mrochko as head of the Kherson city military administration instead of Galina Lugovaya.
17:49 At the Zaporozhye NPP, with a delay of more than three weeks, a group of IAEA experts was rotated, said the agency's director general Rafael Grossi.
17:17 Aliexpress has blocked the sale of DJI and Autel drones for customers from Russia, and those already purchased are limited in functionality, Mash reports. According to journalists, formally the product cards remained in the store, but after going to the page, the user from the Russian Federation gives an error and the inscription: "There is no such page." In addition, DJI has removed drone control applications from the Russian AppStore. To all complaints, DJI replies that it no longer provides services to the Russians, and also does not provide services for any military activities.
16:53 Governor of the Bryansk region Alexander Bogomaz said that the death toll "as a result of the actions of saboteurs" in the Bryansk village of Lyubechan has grown to two.
16:28 For two weeks, Belarusian partisans conducted aerial reconnaissance at the Machulishchi military airfield using civilian drones bought in a store. According to ByPol, during one of the successful reconnaissance operations, the drone not only flew into the protected area of the airfield, flew near the Russian AWACS A-50U military aircraft, but even landed on its radar station ("dish"). At the same time, "the best air defense" and means against drones, which Lukashenka recently told his propagandists about, did not prove themselves in any way.
16:19 In the Beryslav district of the Kherson region, the Russians attacked civilians with drones who were queuing for humanitarian aid near the school. Currently, nine people are known to have been injured, including a child. Information about the victims is being clarified. Civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
16:14 Russia has intensified its information campaign accompanying the assault on Bakhmut in order to demoralize Ukrainian society and the military, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said. In particular, the enemy claims that Bakhmut allegedly has no strategic importance and his defense is a political decision. Also, the Russians discredit the military command of the eastern direction, spread fake documents allegedly from the headquarters in the East. In addition, they demonstrate the "strength" of the occupiers and the "weakness" of the defenders, revealing the allegedly known plans for Bakhmut of both warring parties.
15:59 Member of the State Duma Committee on Defense Viktor Sobolev, after the events in the Bryansk region, called for an end to the "special operation" and to declare war on Ukraine: "There are no red lines left in relation to Ukraine. And we need to end the" special operation "and start a war. With the destruction of funds and communication facilities, with coverage of arms deliveries, and this should have been done a long time ago."
Kadyrov, in turn, called for martial law to be introduced "in some regions".
15:38 At a meeting in India, the foreign ministers of the G20 countries could not agree on a final declaration, since the foreign ministers of Russia and China did not agree on two points - to condemn the Russian invasion and demand the withdrawal of its troops, India's G20 chairmanship reported.
15:32 Russia may abandon massive missile attacks, OK Pivden speaker Natalya Gumenyuk admitted: "Massive missile attacks may be a thing of the past, and now the enemy is at the stage of searching for new tactics ... it begins to stretch missile strikes in time. Sometimes this is a combination of strikes from the sea and air, as well as small parties of shaheeds. Now they want to neutralize our air defense and deliver effective strikes. The objective situation is that the Russian Federation already has much fewer missiles, but still has them."
15:14 Russian propagandists themselves got confused in the information, covering the topic of allegedly "Ukrainian saboteurs" who penetrated into the Russian Federation. And in the number of "hostages", "seizing a school bus", injuring "children and killing civilians". Later, all this information was denied by local media and eyewitnesses. Read more about what happened in the material of the state of emergency in the Bryansk region .
14:53 The Parliament of Moldova adopted a declaration condemning the Russian aggression in Ukraine. 55 deputies from the Action and Solidarity Party (PAS) voted for the declaration. The bloc of communists and socialists left the parliament session in protest, and deputies from the opposition pro-Russian party Shor did not participate in the meeting.
14:39 Russians fired artillery at Belozerka village in Kherson region, two people were injured, the Office of the President reported.
14:20 France is considering the possibility of transferring its Mirage fighters to Ukraine, Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said. According to him, pilot training can be organized in Poland. We are talking about 12 aircraft put into storage in the summer of 2022.
14:17 Putin called the incident in the Bryansk region a "terrorist attack" and said that "they opened fire, seeing that there were children in the car." Putin also added that "it was precisely such people who set themselves the task of depriving us of our historical memory, depriving us of our history, our traditions and language."
14:13 Blinken and Lavrov had a short conversation during a meeting of G20 diplomats, Associated Press reports. This is their first face-to-face meeting since January 2022, and their last telephone conversation took place in July last year. According to AP sources, Blinken, in particular, told Lavrov that the United States would support Ukraine in the conflict until the war ended.
14:09 A fighter of the Russian Volunteer Corps told Important Stories that the RDK actually entered the territory of the Bryansk region: “I just came from there. There were 45 of us on this task. We went in, filmed, ambushed two infantry fighting vehicles. "But there was one injured border guard. No hostages were taken."
14:05 On the territory of the Izyum forestry near the village. Spivakovka, Kharkiv region, four men who were driving a car were blown up by an anti-tank mine - they all died on the spot, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
13:47 In Borodyanka, Kiev region, new graves of victims of the Russian occupation were discovered. According to Babel from the scene, the bodies of three shot men were found in one of the graves. During the exhumation of the bodies, the head of the National Police of the Kiev region Andriy Nebytov said that in total, the bodies of 1373 people were found in the region, of which about 700 were killed by firearms, another 350 died from mine-explosive wounds. In addition, 279 people are still missing.
13:43 The monitoring group of Belarus Gayun reported that the Russian A-50 aircraft left the airspace of Belarus. According to preliminary information, the board is sent to the 325th aircraft repair plant located in Taganrog.
13:26 In Kiev, the emergency warning system will be improved, Klitschko said. He said that the relevant work began even before the full-scale invasion of Russia. Systems operating in the USA, Germany and Poland are taken as a sample. The first 15 notification points have already been tested in the Desnyansky district of the capital, and in two weeks another 12 will be added to them. In total, it is planned to install 47 notification points in the Desnyansky district, and 630 in general in Kiev.
The new system can operate for about a week without power - on its own backup equipment. In addition to generating the "Attention to all" signal, it allows you to perform targeted (individual for each loudspeaker) notification of citizens, depending on the type of emergency, its scale and development forecast.
13:21 Peskov called the events in the Bryansk region "an attack by terrorists." According to him, "measures are being taken to destroy them." He also said that Putin, due to the situation in the Bryansk region, canceled a trip to the Stavropol Territory.
13:19 Lavrov said that Russia "does not refuse serious proposals for negotiations" on Ukraine, "but I don't remember anyone calling Kiev for dialogue."
13:13 Soldiers of the Russian Volunteer Corps said that they entered the territory of the Bryansk region in order to "show their compatriots that free Russian people with weapons in their hands can fight the regime."
13:06 The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted amendments providing for up to 15 years in prison for "discrediting participants in a special operation," including "volunteers."
12:54 Russia is escalating tension around Moldova and Transnistria to divert the attention of the world from the war in Ukraine and demonstrate some kind of "victory" for the Russian people, Andrey Chernyak, representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, told RBC-Ukraine. According to him, Russians have a very limited contingent in Transnistria: “There are warehouses that they guard, but there is almost nothing in those warehouses, and what remains is old and unusable. But in Moldova they are still they are trying to shake the situation politically - under a false flag."
Chernyak recalled that according to this scenario, the Russians once staged provocations in Donetsk and Luhansk.
12:39 Podolyak also called the events in the Bryansk region a provocation: "The story of Ukrainian DRGs in the Russian Federation is a classic provocation. Absolutely conscious. Russia wants to scare its own people in order to somehow justify the attack on another country and growing poverty during the year of the war. over time, the partisan movement in the Russian Federation becomes stronger and more aggressive. Be afraid of your partisans."
12:26 The General Staff told Babel that Ukraine has nothing to do with the events in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation: "Everything that happens in Russia is the resistance of the local population to the Putin terrorist regime, non-compliance with fire safety measures or other reasons beyond the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In particular, Internet reports about the events in the Bryansk region are a daring Moscow provocation."
12:08 Germany has trained over 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers over the past year, Scholz said during a speech in the Bundestag. The training of more than a thousand soldiers will begin in the very near future, the chancellor noted and stressed that Germany "is becoming the central platform for the training of the Ukrainian military in Europe."
12:03 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov announced a change in the strategy for the de-occupation of Crimea: "The strategy for the de-occupation of Crimea is the time for a new edition. The sequence of means of de-occupation - political, diplomatic, military, economic, etc. - requires a change in priorities."
11:42 The FSB announced that in the border Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region, measures are being taken to destroy "armed Ukrainian nationalists who have violated the state border."
11:16 As a result of a Russian missile attack on a residential building in Zaporozhye, according to preliminary data, four people were killed, eight injured, five more are missing, including a child, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
11:10 Governor of the Bryansk region Alexander Bogomaz said that as a result of a drone attack, a house in the village of Sushany caught fire, and the village of Lomakovka was fired from mortars. In addition, according to emergency services, several people were allegedly taken hostage in a store in the village of Lyubechan, Bryansk region. Local telegram channels write that an electrical substation and a gas station have been blown up in the village of Sushany.
Meanwhile, the authorities of the Tula region announced that a crater from the explosion was found 600 meters from the village of Berezovsky.
10:57 The SBU announced that it had detained a saboteur of the Russian GRU in the Rivne region, who was supposed to undermine one of the key objects of the transport system of the regional center in order to disrupt the supply of Western weapons. He arrived in Ukraine on February 19 with an EU citizen's passport. He was detained while preparing for the sabotage.
10:34 The authorities of the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation said that a group of Ukrainian saboteurs allegedly entered the territory of the Klimovsky district today and fired at a car, as a result of which one person died and a child was wounded. The Russian military is taking measures to eliminate "saboteurs".
10:16 There is no power shortage in the energy system of Ukraine for the 19th day in a row and is not predicted yet. The available capacity in the energy system has grown, which improves its operational security and reduces the risk of shortages, Ukrenergo said. Consumption is covered by Ukrainian generation and insignificant imports.
09:58 Russia does not have the resources to invade Moldova, while Chisinau has enough potential to cope with a possible escalation in Transnistria, Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean said. "Russia is waging a hybrid war - a lot of propaganda, disinformation, promotion of certain pro-military narratives. But I'm sure that they will not succeed. All these waves are more of an information war than the real state of affairs," he explained and added that Ukrainian air defense protects and Moldova.
09:41 British intelligence predicts that warm weather in the spring will lead to a further reduction in cross-country travel in eastern Ukraine. Almost certainly by the end of March conditions will be worse after the final thaw. This will complicate ground operations and make it difficult for heavy armored vehicles to move off-road, especially over rough terrain in the Bakhmut area.
09:19 The death toll from a rocket attack on a residential building in Zaporozhye has risen to three, five people have been hospitalized, the Office of the President said.
08:53 In February, international support for the state budget of Ukraine amounted to 2 billion dollars, and since the beginning of the year - 6.3 billion, according to the Ministry of Finance. Of this amount, the EU allocated $3.2 billion, the US - $2.2 billion, and the UK - $498 million.
08:44 In the Donetsk region, as a result of Russian shelling over the past day, one person was killed (in Bakhmut), five more were injured. In the Kherson region, 11 wounded, including a one-year-old child, according to the IVA.
08:25 Zelensky showed the consequences of a Russian night strike on a residential building in Zaporozhye.
08:22 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 2.
personnel - about 150,605 (+715) people liquidated,
tanks - 3397 (+2),
armored combat vehicles - 6658 (+20),
artillery systems - 2398 (+5),
MLRS - 480 (+1),
air defense systems - 247 (+0),
aircraft - 300 (+0),
helicopters - 288 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 2058 (+3),
cruise missiles - 873 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 5264 (+7),
special equipment - 230 (+0).
08:18 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) states that Russia's losses during the recent offensive near Ugledar indicate the Russian military's inability to learn from its mistakes. They continued to throw tank columns into Ukrainian ambushes and ended up losing at least 130 tanks and armored personnel carriers during the three-week offensive. This forced the Russian Federation to resort to frontal infantry attacks for the last week.
Analysts also note that Russian units in the Ugledar region, primarily the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade, are mostly manned by poorly trained mobilized men. They suffered heavy losses in the area twice: in October 2022 and again in February 2023.
In addition, ISW suggests that the Russian Federation may use the growing threats around the ZNPP to deter a future offensive by the Ukrainian army.
08:12 The main efforts of the Russian army are focusing on conducting offensive operations in the Kupyansky, Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Miner directions. Over the past day, the Defense Forces repulsed more than 170 enemy attacks in the indicated directions, the General Staff said in the morning report . In the Zaporizhia and Kherson directions, the enemy is on the defensive, and in some sectors he is trying to create conditions for going over to the offensive. In the border areas of the Belgorod region, the Russians continue to equip the terrain, install anti-tank barriers.
07:01 The Russians launched a missile attack at night (probably S-300) on a residential building in Zaporozhye. The projectile destroyed three floors, the OVA said.
According to the State Emergency Service, as of 7:00 am, 11 people were rescued (including a pregnant woman), 20 residents were evacuated from a neighboring entrance. The bodies of two people were pulled out from under the rubble, search and rescue operations continue.
03:22 In Russia, in order to "protect against possible aggression, the United States" is allegedly developing "a new type of military operations using nuclear weapons," writes the Military Thought magazine published by the Russian Defense Ministry. The authors believe that the United States, "losing its leadership in the world," allegedly plans to "defeat Russia in the course of a strategic multi-sphere operation" with a nuclear strike on Russian territory.
02:57 The program of the Scheme has published satellite images from Planet Labs, which show the consequences of a fire on the territory of the air defense range, which is located west of the airfield in the city of Yeysk, Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation.
01:39 Slovakia is considering the possibility of providing Ukraine with 10 of its 11 Soviet-made MiG-29 aircraft, which were decommissioned last year, Defense Minister Yaroslav Nagy said.
01:26 Lavrov, at a meeting with the Turkish Foreign Minister, said that the extension of the grain deal is possible only if Russian interests are taken into account. The US State Department called on Russia to agree to the extension and expansion of the grain deal.
00:45 Reznikov said that he had met with G7 ambassadors: "We talked about the situation at the front and about changes in our ministry. About how we are turning the Ministry of Defense into the Ministry of Counteroffensive. About NATO and weapons. Introduced new deputies: Alexander Pavlyuk, Andrey Shevchenko and Vitaly Deinegu.
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[KavkazUzel] In one of the regions of Azerbaijan, there are about two and a half thousand people who call themselves Kurds from Iran. Local Azerbaijanis call them gypsies. Meydan TV journalists learned about how they live, what they earn and why children do not go to school, and also talked to local officials, lawyers and activists.
Traditions or stereotypes?
How do they live, how do they earn a living and what do the Ajem Kurds in Azerbaijan complain about?
The Yevlakh region of Azerbaijan, which is a major transport hub of railways and roads, is located 280 kilometers from Baku, above the Kura River.
Walking along the streets that stretch from the old bridge over the Kura to the Yevlakh railway station, you can meet people who stand out among the locals with their dissimilar dialect, appearance and way of life.
Although most call them "Gypsies", they call themselves "Ajem Kurds" and say that their ancestors moved here from Iran in the 1940s and 1950s. In the Yevlakh region, they settled on several streets, which the locals dubbed the "Gypsy Quarter."
A little later we will return to the question of their identity. In the meantime, let's just say that we managed to learn almost nothing about their history from them personally: they do not seem to like talking to strangers very much.
“We collect scrap metal, that’s how we feed ourselves”
We move forward, walking along muddy streets between haphazardly built houses. Throughout the journey, we are accompanied by a flock of noisy, laughing children. And the oncoming women lower their heads and pretend not to notice us.
A little ahead, from behind the fence, comes the girl's laughter. When they see us, they run out to meet us, holding a fish in one hand, and a knife in the other.
- What are you doing? - we are interested.
- We clean the fish, - a smiling blonde teenage girl in a hijab answers.
- How old are you?
- 15
- Do you go to school?
- No, I don't.
- Why?
- I don't know. Don't want.
"Don't you want to be a doctor or a teacher in the future?"
“No,” the girl shrugs.
- Are your moms and dads at home?
“Our dads are in prison,” another girl replies.
At that moment, a woman appears on the balcony. She says something to the girls in her language, and they go into the house. In parting, the blonde girl smiles furtively at us again.
We continue on our way. This place is popularly called "both." Local youth say that we will not be able to talk to those who live here and are advised to go to the other side.
Each of the local residents complains about something. There is no running water, no asphalt, no sewerage.
"You might think you can do something about it. Everyone comes, shoots, but there is no result. All of you come, talk to us, take pictures, and then cut out the places where we complain. You are simply mocking us," a woman in a pink dress expresses her dissatisfaction. Having categorically refused to talk to us, she returns to the house.
We cross "to the other side," to Rakhid Mammadov Street, which is called here "behind the market."
At the very beginning of the street there is an overflowing garbage container. In front of our eyes, a little curly girl dragged a bathtub here on a rope, threw out the rubbish piled in it, and left.
At first glance, this street seems extinct, but as you move forward, cheerful children frolicking in the mud, trains rushing past from time to time, colorful carpets hanging on fences testify that there is still life here.
Local resident Sveta Kerimova initially avoids contact with us. But, it is worth asking her about social problems, as a woman begins to say:
"Is it possible to live like this? There is no sewerage, dirt is everywhere, and at least someone would take an interest in our problems. As a large family, we receive benefits, but this money is not enough for electricity, gas, or water. I buy flour for them, and even that is already running out by the middle of the month."
Another woman joins the conversation, Elmira Abdullaeva. He says that the houses along this street have electricity and gas, and some do not. In their house, for example, there is no electricity or gas, and all complaints go unheeded:
"Grandchildren are cold. By God, we're just dying here. There is no gas, how many times I went to the office, everyone brushes it off, they say that they can’t help. Okay, who's supposed to take care of us then? There is no light either, in the evenings we light candles. Are we not citizens of Azerbaijan? Yes, and poverty. We collect scrap metal, so we feed ourselves. By God, I don’t even have flour, the children are dying of hunger."
Regarding the complaints of local residents, we contacted the executive power of the Yevlakh region. Bahruz Mammadov, chief adviser of the city economy department, said that no official appeal had been received from the residents of this street to the executive branch, and promised that now, after our information, they would conduct an inspection on this street in order to find out the situation with gas supply, electricity and sewerage.
“There is no opportunity to send children to school”
Encouraged by how willing the women were to talk to us, we asked if their children went to school.
It turned out that none of Sveta's nine children attend school.
"And what should I use to buy them clothes and shoes to send them to school? Yes, you also need to put at least a manat in their pocket with you. And then, after all, children work with us, collect metal and plastic for sale. We earn 5-10 manats a day. We earn bread for these same children. Manat is a unit of Azerbaijan currency
Sveta's little daughter sits on the sidelines, busy washing dishes. From time to time she wrings out a yellow rag and listens to our conversation.
Neither children nor grandchildren of Elmira Abdullayeva also went to school. The woman has seven grandchildren, she says she would like to send them to study, but poverty does not allow.
"No, they don't go to school. They look like a little, do not cope and quit. And there is no way to buy them notebooks, bags, clothes. Does not work. And so, of course, I would like my children to study, get a profession, and then get married. I myself didn’t study either, I can’t even write my name."
I catch sight of a girl who has been watching us all this time, leaning against a rusty gate. She looks friendly and I walk towards her.
The girl's hair is tied high, and there is a red scarf on her head. She smiles. She says that she is 21 years old, she is not married, she left school after the first grade.
"If I had been smarter then, I would have continued to study. I’m so sorry now… I’m sitting at home doing nothing," she laments.
We are again appealing to the executive branch, this time about the children's avoidance of school. Responsible secretary of the commission on minors' affairs and protection of their rights Elnara Mammadova answers our questions:
"Schools provide us with student attendance data. And we, together with the police, conduct an inspection at least once every three months. Preventive conversations are held with parents who do not let their children go to school. We do everything we can. But, if parents do not want to send their children to school, how much can they be forced to?"
Meanwhile, lawyer Samad Rahimli recalls that regardless of traditions, customs and financial situation, secondary general education in Azerbaijan is mandatory:
"The executive branch can achieve this with the help of the police. First of all, it is necessary to carry out educational work. If parents continue to resist, individual measures can be taken against them. There is administrative responsibility for obstructing a child's education, and a fine of 100 manats is provided for individuals. And for coercion to begging, 15 days of arrest are required. If parents behave this way on an ongoing basis for a long time, then they may be limited in parental rights. In this regard, the executive branch should go to court. But this requires political will, which the executive authorities do not have."
"Uncomfortable" Neighborhood
The lawyer says that in Europe the rights to integration and education of the Roma living there are respected, and at the same time they have the opportunity to observe their traditions and customs. In addition, in Europe, the state provides financial assistance to families so that children can study, adds Rahimli.
But back to the quarter, where we are still trying to find answers to the remaining questions.
Many houses on this street have a "For Sale" sign. I talk to the locals who live next door to the "Gypsy Quarter". They call their neighbors "Gypsies". Aunt Nargiz says that “gypsies” are good people, and although they are aggressive towards strangers, they are actually quite nice.
"Only very noisy. We put our house up for sale a few months ago, but who would buy a house in a place like this?" - says Aunt Nargiz.
Her son, Rizvan, also grew up here. He has good friends among the "gypsies", and he even knows how to speak their language.
The question of national identity
And since we are again faced with the dilemma of "gypsies or Kurds", we will touch on the topic of national identity.
The ethnographer Emil Kerimov says that it is quite possible that the people living in Yevlakh are, in fact, gypsies or Roma, as they are called in Europe. In the 14th century, representatives of this ethnic group moved from India and spread throughout Europe.
According to the ethnographer, the Roma are adapting to their place of residence and, apparently, when they got to Iran, they adopted the Kurdish language. Also, according to the scientist, the lifestyle of the ethnic group living in Yevlakh is closer to the gypsy than to the Kurdish.
It is difficult to determine exactly how many Roma currently live in Azerbaijan. Not all of them have ID cards. But according to unofficial data for 2012-2014, the total number of Roma living in Azerbaijan was about 10,000 people.
There are 2,500 gypsies living in Yevlakh. That's right, they are called "gypsies" in official statistics.
The scientist-ethnographer says that it is common for nomadic peoples to take the name of the place where they move.
Chairman of the Association for the Preservation of Roma Culture Shukru Pyundik, after listening to the audio recordings made by our film crew in Yevlakh, said that it is Kurdish, but among the Roma there are those who speak Kurdish. And in general, Roma has Kurdish, Alevi, Abazi branches. But asking for alms is characteristic of the Kurdish Roma.
According to local residents, these people moved to Yevlakh in the 50-60s of the last century. They themselves claim to have come from Iran and are Muslims. Therefore, the ethnographer Emil Kerimov suggests that already at the time of their resettlement from Iran, they were presented not as gypsies/Roma, but as Kurds.
In general, Azerbaijan is considered a long-standing place of residence of the Kurds, including the Ajem ones, who took their name from their family.
Until the Karabakh conflict, Kurds traditionally lived in Lachin, Kalbajar, Zangilan, and Gubadli, as well as in the territory of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. At present, there are at least 60,000 Ajem Kurds. Most of them profess Shiite Islam.
History of the Karabakh Kurds
The appearance of the Kurds in Azerbaijan, and in general, in the South Caucasus took place in different periods. The first mention of the appearance of the Kurds in Karabakh is associated with the Mongol invasion - in the XIII century.
The Kurds, who came here with the Ottoman army in 1589 during the Safavid-Ottoman war, settled in the territory of present-day Kalbajar, Lachin, Gubadli and Zangilan.
As a result of the wars that took place in this region in 1918-1920, some groups of Muslim Kurds living in Azerbaijan moved to Armenia.
After the beginning of the Karabakh conflict in the 90s, the Kurds were forced to move to other regions of Azerbaijan. Most of the Kurds from the Gubadli region settled in the city of Sumgayit. And the majority of the Kurdish population of Kelbajar and Lachin now live in the Agjabadi region.
According to the results of the 2009 census, 6,100 Kurds lived in Azerbaijan. According to Western experts, Kurds make up approximately 2.8% of the population of Azerbaijan. It is assumed that more than 200,000 Kurds currently live in Azerbaijan.
"Not all of us are begging"
As for the inhabitants of the "gypsy quarter" in Yevlakh, they themselves consider themselves part of Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani people. What's more, they feel the need to prove it so strongly that they bring in identification cards pulled from under heavy mattresses and force them to reread their names over and over again, which they themselves cannot read.
They say that they live poorer than the local population, that they are less likely to find work, and not a single state structure responds to their appeals.
Lawyer Samed Rahimli reports that the Council of Europe has made an obligation to Azerbaijan to ensure the rights of ethnic minorities. Azerbaijan must ensure equality and pursue an anti-discrimination policy. The country also accepted the UN international covenants on civil and political, economic, social and cultural rights and joined the 1965 convention on the abolition of all forms of racial discrimination.
“Don’t shoot, why are you shooting? All of Azerbaijan is watching and saying that gypsies live in Yevlakh. Everyone asks: are you from Yevlakh, right? They dishonored Yevlakh throughout the country ,” a woman shouts from afar, having seen our camera.
And we are slowly leaving the "gypsy" quarter. Yes, and it's already evening, it's time. One of the middle-aged men standing nearby asks us not to be offended by that woman:
"Here before you have already filmed 10-15 times. I go to TikTok - all our children are there. Some non-existent traditions are invented for us. But not all of us beg, there are those who work, honestly earn their living. Are there no beggars among you Azerbaijanis? And we have a bad reputation, and the locals, if suddenly there is a theft, they immediately blame us. So I tell you all this, but will anyone believe me? No."
Realizing that we were going to leave, the man seemed to catch himself and apologize many times that they could not adequately meet us.
Evening comes, we move away from the quarter. The same girl in a red scarf follows us with her eyes. The voices of the children fell silent - probably everyone went home. The only sound is the noise of passing trains.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:17 Situation in Bakhmut
Ilyinovka area:
Units of PMC "Wagner" are moving along Rechnaya Street.
District Meat-packing plant:
"Wagnerites" reached the line along Zarechnaya Street.
Zabakhmutka area:
The musicians moved along Gorky Street to the west, and also came close to Partizanskaya Street. Reports of the complete capture of the Zabakhmutka region do not yet correspond to reality.
Sobachevka area:
Units of PMC "Wagner" took possession of several quarters and went to the 4th lane of Gogol.
Budenovka area:
"Wagnerites" have taken possession of the Lesnoy garage cooperative and are approaching the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine between Tchaikovsky and Korsunsky streets.
21:17 A resident of Ivano-Frankivsk was sentenced to five years for supporting the Russian army on social networks, the press service of the city prosecutor's office. It is noted that the accused did not admit his guilt, but it was "fully brought to light by the collected evidence."
21:17 In Odessa, they plan to rename two districts named after Russian commanders, the press service of the City Council. They want to rename the Suvorovsky district to Peresypsky. Malinovsky district, which got its name in honor of the Marshal of the USSR, is proposed to be called Khadzhibeysky.
21:16 The destruction of the enemy is carried out almost around the clock. Artillery strikes concentrations of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the help of gunners working with a thermal imager.
20:15 Personnel combat work of MANPADS crews of the Airborne Troops in the NVO zone
Crews of anti-aircraft missile systems "Verba" are dispersed along the entire line of contact. Anti-aircraft missile systems "Verba" is a Russian manpad.
At any second, experienced anti-aircraft gunners are ready to destroy any target in the air, from a small quadcopter to airplanes and helicopters.
19:13 Russian loitering ammunition continues to harvest.
Onvideocaptured the moment of arrival on the enemy's self-propelled howitzer, presumably - on the 155-mm self-propelled guns M109
19:12 According to updated information, as a result of the actions of the DRG in the village of Lyubechane, Klimovsky district, the number of dead civilians increased to two people, a man born in 1966 died - authorities of the Bryansk region
18:22 Russian military personnel used the Volga armored train to clear mines and restore the railway in the NVO zone
The crew of the armored train carries out technical reconnaissance and demining of areas of the area, and also restores destroyed roads.
“The tasks of the Volga special train are technical reconnaissance of railway sections, if necessary, their restoration and cargo escort. In the course of movement, if minor damage to the track is detected, the personnel of the special train are able to eliminate the identified damage on their own and continue moving, ”said the head of the special train.
Armament, the latest equipment and shelters for firing are placed on the armored platforms of the train. The armament complex allows personnel to operate in the most difficult conditions.
Aerial reconnaissance and monitoring of the environment in the area of engineering work is carried out by the crew of the UAV.
18:17 There was no school bus, terrorists fired on a Niva with children in the Bryansk region - Kravtsov
Earlier, information appeared in the media that a school bus had come under fire in the Bryansk region.
"According to the situation in the Bryansk region: terrorists, Nazis, non-humans attacked civilians - a Niva car in which children were traveling. They saw that it was not a military vehicle," he said.
Also, the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Sergey Kravtsov added that "there was no school bus, as the Ukrainian media wrote about."
17:10 FSB: the situation in the Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region is under the control of law enforcement agencies
17:09 The authorities of the Kursk region announced the ongoing shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Near the village of Troitskoye, Korenevsky district, nine arrivals were noticed.
"The victims were not recorded. Another 11 attacks in the vicinity of the village of Begoshcha, Rylsky district. The village was left without electricity. Repair crews have already started repairing the damage," Governor Roman Starovoit wrote on Telegram.
17:08 The drone that crashed in the Tula region was sent to Shchekinskaya GRES - media
17:08 Tough fights continue in Artemovsk (Bakhmut)
Soldiers of PMC "Wagner" are conducting an operation to cut off the last major supply artery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Chasov Yar - Artemovsk (Bakhmut) routes.
17:08 Another military echelon of the RF Armed Forceson the way to help
16:11 “We work for different goals”: battery commander told on the combat work of the artillery crew of the Central Military District in the zone of the special operation
In less than five minutes, the 203mm self-propelled guns "Malka" advance and turn around in a firing position.
Upon receiving a target from reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles, the crew delivers an artillery strike with 203mm high-explosive fragmentation shells on fortified areas and enemy artillery installations.
After completing the tasks, the calculation changes its position, leaving from under a possible return fire.
Self-propelled gun mounts operate day and night, suppressing the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with a caliber of 203mm.
Recently, the calculations of the self-propelled guns "Malka" of the Central Military District have been replenished by volunteers and mobilized people who successfully carry out a combat mission.
16:11 Ukrainians en masse outraged Arestovich's departure to Italy across the closed border
15:06 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
◾️Russian troops destroyed the ammunition depot of the 14th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region;
◾️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a complex fire defeat on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Ugledar in the DPR;
◾️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed about 270 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction in a day;
◾️Russian troops destroyed up to 80 Ukrainian servicemen and a 152mm Msta-B howitzer in the direction of Kherson;
◾️Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporizhia directions amounted to 80 soldiers per day;
◾️Russian air defense systems shot down a Su-25 aircraft and 14 APU drones in a day;
◾️Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft and a Mi-8 helicopter in the DPR;
◾️Russian troops hit the ammunition depot of the 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction;
◾️Up to 160 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed within a day in the Krasnolimansky direction;
◾️Russian troops destroyed more than 50 Ukrainian soldiers in the Kupyansk direction during the day;
◾️Russian troops destroyed a communication center and an ammunition depot of the 110th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdievka area in the DPR;
◾️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the Buk-M1 air defense system and the S-300 air defense missile guidance radar.
14:08 Another Ukrainian soldier from the 35th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was eliminated on the part of the territory of the DPR occupied by the Kyiv regime
14:07 Peskov does not know if the status of the SVO will be changed in connection with the attack of Ukrainian saboteurs in the Bryansk region
14:06 Statement of the Bryansk authorities on the dead and wounded:
As a result of the actions of the Ukrainian DRG in the village of Lyubechane, Klimovsky district, the driver of a car was killed, a boy born in 2012 was injured.
The child was taken to the Bryansk regional hospital, nothing threatens his life.
14:06 The State Duma adopted amendments providing for up to 15 years in prison for discrediting participants in a special operation, including volunteers
13:12 An air alert has been announced in northern Ukraine. The alarm sounds in the Chernihiv, Poltava and Sumy regions of Ukraine.
13:12 AFU fired at Tetkino in the Kursk region
Two men were injured. One of them died before the ambulance arrived, Governor Roman Starovoit said. The second man was hospitalized with moderate injuries. There were five arrivals in total, the electricity supply was disrupted in the village.
13:11 Personnel destruction of a tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdievka area with high-precision artillery ammunition
13:10 In the border Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region, the FSB of Russia and the attached forces of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation are taking measures to destroy armed Ukrainian nationalists who violated the state border.
12:34 Law enforcement agencies are working throughout Sushan, the press secretary of the governor of the Bryansk region told Zvezda TV channel. She also added that there is no information on the number of Ukrainian terrorists and hostages.
12:12 In the Bryansk region, there is a clash with Ukrainian saboteurs. This was reported to TASS by law enforcement agencies.
11:45 Su-25 attack aircraft attacked enemy column on the Zaporozhye front
Scouts of the Russian Aerospace Forces discovered the movement of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and transmitted the data to the gunners. The targets were hit.
11:44 An explosion occurred in the village of Berezovsky, Tula region
According to local residents, early in the morning they heard a loud sound, from which “houses shook”. A little later, a funnel was discovered in the forest, near which everything was strewn with ashes and dead birds lay. Explosives are on the scene now.
10:38 Personnel offensive of Russian naval infantry on Ugledar
Infantry fighting vehicles of the 155th Brigade of the Pacific Fleet are cut through the snow-covered fields of the Ugledar Front. It is noticeable that the weather is not the most pleasant, but this does not prevent the fighters from carrying out their tasks with high morale.
09:25 Ukrovoiny complain that they are constantly covered by Russian artillery, many wounded s, and they themselves run around in the dugout, like chickens in a chicken coop, because there is nowhere to hide.
09:15 Two drones tried to attack a military unit in Crimea.
According to media reports, drones fell on the night of March 1 in the territory of the Saki district in Crimea. After falling, one of them exploded. The Ministry of Defense did not comment on the information.
08:20 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation sharedpersonnelwork of the calculation of the 203mm self-propelled artillery mount (SAU) "Malka"
08:01 Russian servicemen involved armored train "Volga" for mine clearance and restoration of the railway in the NVO zone.
The crew of the armored train carries out technical reconnaissance and demining of areas of the area, and also restores destroyed roads.
07:00 Kadyrov showed training of our fighters. According to the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, the fighters of the RF Armed Forces are honing their skills in piloting quadrocopters. With their help, soldiers in the NVO zone remotely identify enemy positions.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:56 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 02/02/2023 to 00:00 03/03/2023
Over the past day Representation reported about 23 facts of firing by the VFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made five artillery attacks from 155mm and 152mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky 16 artillery attacks from artillery 155mm and 152mm.
On Yasinovatsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
On Volnovakhsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
By releasing 62 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of six settlements of the Republic: Golmovsky, Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Panteleymonovka, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Nikolskoye.
Over the past 24 hours, information was received about the death of one civilian in the previously liberated Nikolsky and the wounding of a civilian in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
Three houses were damaged in Petrovsky district of Donetsk, Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka. Previously, 30 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU per day.
21:03 Calculation of anti-tank systems of the 9th Brigade of the 1st Donetsk army corps successfully hit stronghold of the Armed Forces
19:43 On photographs- a house damaged by the artillery attack of Ukrainian terrorists at the address: st. Zemnukhova, 3 (settlement of the mine "6/7", Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka).
19:23 Ukrainian artillery hits Tavriysk. There are arrivals on Portovaya Street, and it is also known that the water pumping station was damaged.
Most of the city is under the fire control of Wagner PMC. However, the enemy continues to send additional forces, mainly from the mobilized, buying time for the retreating national battalions and other "elite" Ukrainian units.
18:49 Ukrainian troops fired on Panteleymonovka, firing five 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.
18:48 The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on Korsunka. The house on Solodukhina Street, 37 was damaged. The walls, the roof, and outbuildings were destroyed.
18:41 Destroyed under Ugledar protected car International MaxxPro APU.
18:20 On March 2, additional information about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic was received through the operational lines of the JCCC DPR for March 2:
n.p. Nikolskoye (included in the zone of responsibility of the administration of the Volnovakhsky district): - on the street. 40 years of October, a man born in 1963 died.
18:05 Ukrainian troops fired at Nikolskoye, firing 6 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.
17:48 Artillery of the RF Armed Forces in the Seversky directiondestroysmanpower of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
17:20 Explosions are heard in Rabochiy area. It is also reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit Tavriysk.
16:51 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for March 2, additional information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
16:26 Combat aircraft on the line of contact near Donetsk. The task of aviation is to identify and destroy terrorists.
16:04 Under the fire of the VFU, the Gorlovsky village of Golmovsky. Arrivals of enemy rounds are recorded in the immediate vicinity of Bolshaya Golma Street. This was announced by the mayor of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko.
15:30 Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction over the past day amounted to 160 servicemen. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
15:02 Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk under a powerful shelling by the Nazis.
14:25 Artyomovsk from above. The hard fighting continues. Soldiers of PMC "Wagner"leadan operation to cut off the last major supply artery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the Chasov Yar - Artyomovsk route and to slam the boiler.
14:06 Ukrainian troops fired at the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, firing two 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.
13:55 Under the fire of the VFU, the Gorlovsky village of Golmovsky. Arrivals of enemy rounds are recorded in the immediate vicinity of Bolshaya Golma Street, Gorlovka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko reports.
13:42 Video from under Kremennaya, where paratroopers nightmare the enemy in pine forests. When the Ukrainian fighters try to reach our oporniks, the mobile groups of the Airborne Forces react with lightning speed.
12:33 The military of the Luhansk People's Republic, released during the exchange with the Ukrainian side on February 16,returnedhome.
11:43 Russian aviation inflicts bombing attacks on the enemy in Avdievka.
Attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces carry out bombing strikes on identified enemy targets in the Avdievka direction, supporting the advance of our troops.
11:10 Under the massive artillery attack of Ukrainian nationalists is the village of Zaitsevo (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka). This was announced by the mayor of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko.
10:55 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for March 2, information was received about victims among civilians in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district): - on the street. Granovsky, 15 suffered a girl born in 2000.
Information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district): - st. Granovsky, 15 - a private residential building.
10:45 Afternoon summary Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on March 2, 2023.
10:31 From Artyomovsk they report that right now there is a powerful assault on Khromovo.
The significance of this village for the Artyomovsk group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is critical: Khromovo is located on the last road along which the Nazis are supplied.
10:27 Tonight in the area of n.p. Nikolskoe (Kherson region) an artillery strike was carried out on an ammunition depot of one of the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Was destroyed, such ammunition as missiles for the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS, for 152mm 2A65152mm Msta-B howitzers, rounds for firing from 122mm D-30 howitzers, mines for mortars.
As a result of fire damage, the unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered losses: 15 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were eliminated, seven were injured of varying severity and five units. automotive equipment disabled.
10:25 In February 2023, the Representative Office of the LPR in the JCCC recorded: 15 attacks on the territory of the Republic by the armed formations of Ukraine using heavy weapons in 11 settlements.
During the shelling, the enemy used: tactical missile system "Tochka-U" (one missile), MLRS HIMARS (30 missiles), 155mm artillery pieces (seven rounds).
During the above period, 12 civilians became victims of the AFU aggression, of which one died and 11 people were injured, incl. one child.
A total of 52 housing constructions and 10 civil infrastructure facilities were destroyed and damaged, incl. two educational institutions.
10:23 Job calculation of the world's largest self-propelled 240mm mortar "Tulip" in the Ugledar direction.
10:08 The Russian military destroyed the Ukrainian Su-24 bomber.
Yesterday, in the Kherson region, our fighters shot down a UkrainianSu-24 bomber. At the time of the crash, at least one member of the enemy crew was killed.
09:55 At the Bakhmut (Artemovsky) sector, Russian artillery successfullycoversplaces of accumulation of ukrofascists.
09:28 Only old men go into battle! Ukrainians continue to suffer colossal irretrievable losses in the Bakhmutsky (Artemovsky) sector, there are not enough personnel, and therefore they began tosendold people.
09:26 Personnel offensive of the marines of the Pacific Fleet on Ugledar. Marines of the 155th brigade of the Pacific Fleet are driving combat vehicles across a snow-covered field, heading towards Ugledar. Despite the severe weather conditions and the tense situation at the forefront of the Ugledar direction, the footage shows that the Marines are in a fighting mood.
09:12 Assault battalion "Barnaul" in battles for Marinka.
09:10 Information on the artillery attack of Gorlovka as of 08:00 on 03/02/2023
08:55 Fresh video of the work of the Ghost artillery. An enemy Ural was destroyed by an accurate hit on the outskirts of the village of Disputed
08:47 Ukrainian troops fired at Petrovsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, firing four rounds with a caliber of 152mm and five 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.
08:11 During the day, two civilians were wounded on the territory of the DPR.
Over the past 24 hours, from 00:00 on March 1 to 00:00 on March 2, as a result of artillery attack of the VFU on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, 2 people were injured.
08:02 Frontline summary on the morning of 03/02/2023:
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, with the support of artillery, carried out offensive operations near Novodanilovka. Under artillery attack positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novoandreevka, Orekhovo, Charovny, Gulyaipolsky, Zheleznodorozhny, Gulyaypole and Olgovsky. The Ukrainian army struck at the Pologi.
On the Donetsk front, the RF Armed Forces, after artillery preparation, attacked in the Pobeda area, in the city limits of Marinka and near Nevelskoye. Also, with fire support, they attacked Pervomayskoye from the side of Pesok and Vodyany. From Experienced, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation tried to advance to the southern outskirts of Avdievka.
Artillery worked in the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A little to the north - an attack on Kamenka in order to cut a section of the H-20 highway. Also under artillery attack are the cities of Krasnogorovka, Netaylovo, Orlovka and Vesyoloye. The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked Donetsk, Makiivka, Yasinovataya and Panteleimonovka.
South of Bakhmut, Ukrainian artillery hit Ozaryanovka and Kurdyumovka. PMC "Wagner" attacked in the direction of Belaya Gora and Chasov Yar. Artillery worked in the last of these settlements. Also under fire Ivanovskoye and Bakhmut himself.
Wagner operators advanced in the city from the side of Experienced, as well as from the eastern outskirts closer to the center. And from the north - from Yagodnoye. To the north-west of Bakhmut, PMC "Wagner" reached Bogdanovka.
Also, with the support of artillery, Wagner operators attack in the direction of Grigorovka and in the Orekhovo-Vasilyevka area. Under fire positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Zheleznyansky. To the north of Soledar, PMC "Wagner" is conducting offensive operations on Fedorovka and Rozdolovka. Wagner operators are supported by artillery. A little to the east, they again tried to break through to Vesely.
In the Luhansk direction, Russian troops, after artillery preparation, again attacked near Belogorovka. From the side of Shipilovka, they conducted offensive operations in the Serebryansky forest area. To the north, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation tried to advance in the direction of Ternov, Nevsky and Makeevka.
07:45 Reportage from the Kremennaya area, where large-scale offensive operations may be intensified in the future.
07:31 Artemovskoe direction our artillery destroys fortifications of the Nazis.
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[REGNUM] On the one hand, people call on Satan and openly betray their souls to him, on the other hand, they refuse to believe in the picture of the world in which he is real. If they believed, they could be off the hook and run to God. Judging by the evidence of Tradition, Satan had many such griefs. So it looks like he has now secured himself by breeding a new type of adepts.
Networks on both sides of the ocean continue to discuss the performance of "non-binary" Grammy winner Sam Smith, who won the competition by performing a number with explicitly and emphatically satanic symbolism.
This speech - and his victory in the competition - caused a rather alarmed reaction from conservative commentators in the US itself, who also drew attention to the fact that the well-known pharmaceutical company Pfizer was the sponsor.
The commercial interests of pharmacists here, however, are understandable. Transgenderism, when a person first pays (by himself or with the help of the state) for a mutilating “sex reassignment” operation, and then drinks heavy hormonal drugs all his life, this is just a gold mine for manufacturers of substances that in this case do not dare to call “drugs.”
Of course, the answer to the anxiety of Christians was expected - but what is the problem? This is just a funny entertainment show, people are having fun fooling around, jumping and jumping, singing and dancing, wiggling their hips and making faces. And if you don't like it, don't watch it.
But such explanations are difficult to accept.
Firstly, there are things that cannot be joked with. If, say, someone dresses up in a Nazi uniform with a swastika on his sleeve and goes out into the street like that, he is unlikely to be helped by talking about the fact that this is all a funny joke and prank. This joke is not appreciated. Why?
Because National Socialism is perceived as the ultimate evil, with which they do not flirt, do not flirt, and do not joke.
The devil in the Christian picture of the world is not a comic character, it is the bearer of ultimate evil. Even for people who do not share this picture of the world and see only a symbol in Satan, this symbol has a completely unambiguous meaning. This is the spirit of lies and malice.
In the symbolic message that is conveyed by references to hell and Satan, in any case, there is nothing good.
Moreover, some time ago it never occurred to the participants of song contests to imitate demon worship on stage. This is a sign of a certain shift - and a scale shift.
If we had recently told the Americans that they would openly worship the statue of Baphomet, they would have taken it for an empty horror story. Nevertheless, flirting with Satan is becoming more and more fashionable - as it was revealed, for example, with the recent scandal around the Balenciaga fashion house.
How do lovers of dressing up as devils themselves see it? Those of them who say that Satan is only a symbol, and they do not believe in anything supernatural. It is likely that when they claim such a thing, they are (almost) not lying.
The United States has long been the scene of what has been called "cultural wars" - between traditional, family, Christian, hardworking America, on the one hand, and progressive forces that see it as a bastion of patriarchal oppression, sanctimonious morality and hatred of unfortunate minorities - racial and sexual .
In the last decade, the confrontation has become especially acute, which a number of American commentators call the "cold civil war." In this war, the entertainment industry, as it immediately catches the eye, is powerfully on the side of progressive forces, obsessively promoting propaganda of gross perversions, even in cartoons for the smallest.
Flirting with Satanism is, on the one hand, a way to emphasize: “I am mine! I'm progressive! I also hate these stupid rednecks with Bibles!”, on the other hand, an attempt to destroy the connection between generations, forcing young people to dance to music that will cause fundamental, religious rejection from their parents.
So maybe they really (almost) don't believe in the real Satan. Another thing is that it doesn't change much.
God is looking for close, trusting relationships with people, it is important for Him to be believed in Him. The devil does not require his followers to believe in him; his goal is to destroy people, and not to make friends with them at all.
Therefore, as Charles Baudelaire remarked: "The devil's greatest trick is to convince you that he does not exist."
In this case, it was brilliantly successful - people, on the one hand, call on Satan and openly betray their souls to him, on the other hand, they refuse to believe in the picture of the world in which he is real. If they believed, they could be off the hook and run to God. Judging by the evidence of Tradition, Satan had many such griefs. So it seems that now he has secured himself by bringing out a new type of adherents - materialistic Satanists.
But it must be said that Satan has many different tricks. Another of them is to inspire us that he can deceive and seduce anyone - but not us. These are unfortunate self-castrated eunuchs in a hat with horns, Satan leads by the nose as he wants - but nothing of the kind threatens us. Satanists are our military and political opponents, and Satan does not dare to show his nose to us.
Alas, this is not so.
If it doesn't occur to you to jump in a red tights and a hat with horns, this does not mean that you are invulnerable. Our faith says that Satan hates and tries to destroy not only them but also us. And he is resourceful enough to find his own approach to everyone. He is an experienced and cunning deceiver and, to use such an unbiblical word, a provocateur.
We roughly know what provocation looks like in a confrontation between people: an opponent who cannot reach out and shoot you in the foot uses his knowledge of psychology and ingenuity to make you shoot yourself in the foot.
And what makes you most vulnerable in such cases is the careless confidence in your invulnerability.
The devil pays no less attention to the Russians than to the Americans - and, alas, one can see flirting with hell here too. Take, for example, the recent song by Vika Tsyganova: “And mother Russia will open the gates to hell for you!”.
It is clear that neither the singer herself, nor those who composed these spiritually uplifting poems for her, do not believe in any hell, but use this word as a symbol - in this case, as a symbol of nuclear war, which the artist threatens the "reptilians". It is also clear that the corresponding buttons, thank God, are not at all in the hands of popular singers.
But hell doesn't understand jokes. If you call him, you give him the right to come.
As it was not necessary to call the film "First in Hell". No need to flirt with the infernal.
It's like a contract - whether you sign it as a joke, or drunk, or "not meaning it," you sign it and you will deal with it. Don't open the gates to hell. Because hell is always trying to break through to the earth - through them, through us, through whom it will succeed.
Therefore, as the apostle says: "Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour" (1 Pet. 5:8).
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] "Destroyed" in social networks A-50 Russian Aerospace Forces continues its routine work from the airfield in Belarus.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] In the Bryansk region, at 12 o'clock it is reported:
1. 2 civilians were killed. Several people were injured
2. An unspecified number of civilians were taken hostage.
3. Clashes continue near the village of Sushany.
In terms of the situation, everything is quite prosaic - the shelling of border villages and the actions of the DRG in the border areas are the result of the withdrawal of Russian troops from the northern regions of the Sumy, Chernihiv and Kharkov regions. Without the establishment of military control over these areas, the shelling and actions of the DRG against the border settlements will continue.
Also, the refusal to recognize the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and the Security Service of Ukraine as terrorist organizations continues to be puzzling, although their actions are completely identical to those of ISIS. We see here, we don't see here. The infantile approach continues to triumph.
The authorities of the Bryansk region at 12-30 reported that in the area of the village of Sushany, a battle with Ukrainian terrorists continues. At the same time, the authorities officially denied reports of the alleged seizure of the school and the shooting of the school bus.
According to the patterns of the Basayev terrorists,
the Ukrainian DRG of about 40 people took hostages in the village of Sashuny, Bryansk region. Two Ukrainian DRGs, totaling up to 40 people, entered the Bryansk region and took local residents hostage. Both groups penetrated the Klimovsky district. Earlier it was reported about the shelling of border villages, as well as an attack on a civilian car.
A resident of Sushan told how the attack began - at that moment she was delivering bread to local grandmothers and saw how the militant shot at a woman who was standing near her house. Entering the village, according to the woman, Ukrainian DRGs blew up a mobile communications tower (which means that the attack was carefully planned). The militants were demonstratively going to terrorize civilians.
One resident, who with his family was subjected to terror by Ukrainian saboteurs, spoke about what happened. According to the man, he went outside, and they immediately put him on his knees, then put him on the ice. The man thought they were Ukrainian border guards, but they had yellow armbands on their clothes. He also spoke about the brutal shelling of neighboring houses, first from machine guns, and then from grenade launchers - one of the rear ones was completely burned out.
They also took hostage his son and his wife, who were driving home by car. The car was completely shot, handcuffs were put on the son and his wife and forced to shout: “Glory to Ukraine.” While the man lay on the ice for an hour, saboteurs laid mines all over the street.
Vladimir Putin commented on the attack on the Bryansk region, which was carried out by the DRG of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, another terrorist attack was committed today, and the militants perfectly saw that there were civilians and children in the car on which they opened fire.
According to the children, there was a driver and three children in the car: a boy Fyodor from the third grade and two girls, Zlata and Lena. The children were taken from the village of Brakhlov to Novy Ropsk, where a school bus was supposed to pick them up.
On the way, they were suddenly attacked by a group of unknown men - the driver died immediately, and Fedor was wounded in the chest. Nevertheless, he helped the girls out, told them to hide in the forest.
Later, the injured boy was able to catch a car on the same road - she took the children away from the scene of the attack. Fedor immediately called an ambulance.
“We saw that it was a civilian car. We saw that civilians and children were sitting there. "Niva" ordinary. They opened fire on her. These are the people who set themselves the task of depriving us of historical memory, depriving us of our history, depriving us of our traditions and language,” the president said.
Deputy Khinshtein: in the Bryansk region, a car with National Guardsmen blew up on a mine during a sweep
State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein reported an incident during the cleansing of the territory near the village of Sushany in the Bryansk region - a car of the National Guard was blown up by a mine.
In his Telegram channel, Khinshtein wrote that four National Guardsmen were injured: three employees of the Bryansk SOBR (commander of the fighting compartment and two fighters), as well as an OMON explosives technician. They received minor shrapnel wounds, nothing threatens their life and health.
“The forces of the National Guard were involved from the very beginning of the operation. Immediately after the first information about the terrorist attack was received, a combined SOBR-OMON detachment, located on the border reinforcement, advanced to the place with paratroopers. A reserve was sent from Bryansk, as well as groups of explosives experts, ” the deputy specified.
It is noted that the National Guardsmen cleared the village of Lyubechane and cleared the mines of Sushany.
As REGNUM reported , the mother of former actor Kirill Kanakhin , who in all likelihood was a participant in a terrorist attack in the Bryansk region with saboteurs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that in the photo her son looks like the one who poses in front of the post office in the village of Sushany. The woman does not believe that he could commit betrayal of the Motherland and murder. She was horrified that her son could fight with Russia.
FSB announced a strike on Ukrainian saboteurs who entered the Bryansk region
Ukrainian nationalists who made a sortie into the Bryansk region were squeezed out into the territory of Ukraine and inflicted a massive artillery strike on them, the FSB DSO reported.
"As a result of the measures taken, the sortie of Ukrainian nationalists in the Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region was stopped. In order to avoid civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure, the enemy was squeezed into the territory of Ukraine, where a massive artillery strike was inflicted on him," the statement says.
On Thursday morning, the governor of the region, Oleksandr Bogomaz, reported that a Ukrainian sabotage group had infiltrated the territory of the Bryansk region. In the village of Lyubechan, its participants fired at a car, killing two civilians. In addition, in the village of Sushany, which is also located in the Klimovsky district, a residential building caught fire from a projectile dropped from a drone.
Vladimir Putin called the incident a terrorist attack. He noticed that the attackers fired at a civilian car, seeing that there were children in it.
The FSB stressed that now the situation in the region is under control. The sappers are combing the area of the state of emergency, "a large number of explosive devices of various types" have been found.
More from RIA Novosti writer Irina Alksni Terrorist attack in the Bryansk region: Russia knows what to do by Irina Alksnis
All that can be confidently said so far about what is currently happening in the Bryansk region is to repeat the official statement: the FSB and the Ministry of Defense are carrying out activities in the Klimovsky district to destroy armed Ukrainian nationalists who have violated the state border.
The media reporting on the penetration of the Ukrainian DRG into the territory of Russia are mistaken. There is no sabotage and reconnaissance group there - in fact, a terrorist armed formation is operating. The fact that he is given orders by officials of another state does not change anything, it just once again confirms what we, in general, already knew: Ukraine is a terrorist state.
The targets of the attack were non-military targets, which could still be attributed to "legitimate military targets." No, the target was civilians, including children.
This action has no meaningful military significance. The attack has the only meaning - to sow fear and uncertainty in Russian society, and not only in the border regions. Pure terrorism as it is.
Two important things follow from this.
First, terrorist methods are traditionally used by forces that are aware of their inevitable defeat. For them, trying to strike terror into people is the only way they can try to turn the tide in their favor by taking the other side on the weak side.
And this means that things are really bad for Kiev - and, most importantly, he is aware of this. The attack on the Bryansk region looks like a gesture of desperation, an attempt to somehow change the situation that is rapidly slipping into a catastrophe.
And secondly, Russia - modern Russia - has an extremely extensive and very successful experience in the fight against terrorism. And not only among the special services, but also among our people as a whole. Resilience, courage, perseverance and the merciless destruction of terrorists are proven methods that allowed us to deal with this abomination last time.
The country will have to apply the accumulated experience again.
True, this time the task is more ambitious, since the source of the terrorist threat is not some political force or specific people, but the whole state. However, this does not change the essence of the matter.
A terrorist state, especially near us, should not exist.
Question: How did you and your combat comrades react to the clowning of propagandists about the capture of hostages, the murder of children, and the shooting of a school bus? Obviously, they tried to make terrorists out of you, and interestingly, the local authorities later refuted this information.
As a result, they even refuted the seizure of settlements.
What really happened?
Answer: We are still exchanging posts from the Z-channels and laughing.
In fact, the operation was almost bloodless. A whole one border guard was neutralised, and then the groups moved around without any active resistance.
Closer to half of the time we spent there, a fight with f*ggots on vehicles broke out, but what is particularly funny is that vehicles were suppressed by grenade launchers and retreated, and never emerged again.
Question: Is it possible to draw conclusions about the real defense capability of Russians based on the results of today’s events? Or could you say that they did not expect such a “turn of events”?
There is a feeling that they are absolutely not ready for the defense of their lands.
Answer: Real defense capacity at the border is a hundred times worse than what we have organised. Apparently, there are still many areas where ordinary border guards are located without reinforcements of mobilised.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Bris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Regarding reports about restrictions on the purchase of Chinese drones by volunteers for the needs of the RF Armed Forces.
Those who are involved in the process know that in practice this will affect a little more than nothing - drones have been and will be purchased in China and third countries and imported into the Russian Federation in commercial quantities. This is a direct consequence of the failure of the West's strategy of economic and trade isolation of Russia.
Of course, there are a number of problems that, as a rule, do not write about in the "sensational" headlines "China banned the purchase of drones", but they are not of any administrative nature. From a commercial point of view, there are no problems with the purchase of drones at the moment and are not expected.
It is worth clarifying that we are talking about the purchase of commercial and industrial drones. Ukraine buys from the same way, through third countries. Military drones like Wing Loong 4 or 5 were not recorded at the front. Which of course does not mean that they will not appear sometime later, but at the moment there is no evidence that China has supplied us with serial military drones.
The Americans have been pumping up on this for more than a month, but they cannot present anything to China. At the same time, of course, they are making efforts to make it difficult for Russia to purchase Chinese drones, but they cannot stop it due to the lack of the possibility of trade isolation of the Russian Federation.
At the same time, the urgent need to expand production capacities for the production of drones directly in Russia and the construction of new enterprises is not removed. Production volumes have obviously grown over the year (especially for Cubes and Lancets, it is noticeable, but this is not enough.
The front de facto requires thousands and thousands of drones. And while we do not fully cover the needs, the ability to stock up with the Chinese will play an important role in providing our troops with this consumable.
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Aliexpress banned the sale of DJI and Autel drones to Russian buyers
In addition, the DJI application has become unavailable in the Russian AppStore. The company’s customer support department told users that DJI does not work with buyers from the Russian Federation, and also does not provide equipment for military operations.
#3
Yesterday review of this story the damage is not seen. One big mistake the plane was pictured with snow about it and another with no snow. This is fake news. You can't even see damage even in darkened view. I have never trusted media and my belief is reaffirmed daily.
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Dale, the video w/o snow, landing on the radome was an earlier recon flight. The video w/ snow where the video abruptly ends is from one of two attack drones. The Russians got caught w/ their ants down on at least two separate days. The A-50 was damaged and flew to Russia for repairs (if they have the needed parts anymore).
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A lone Ukrainian soldier took out five Russian tanks in a day using US-provided Javelin missiles, Ukraine's Ministry of Defence said.
The decisive encounter occurred during a Russian attack on Ukraine's 79th Air Assault Brigade near the town of Maryinka, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.
The Ukrainian paratrooper managed to take out five tanks and three infantry fighting vehicles with the help of US anti-tank Javelin missiles, the brigade said.
Video shows the missiles striking the Russian tanks, which explode and erupt into flames.
The US has armed Ukraine with some 8,500 Javelin missiles since the outbreak of the Russian invasion last February.
#4
Lets wait on this one. 'Ukraine's claims have yet to be independently verified, but the footage posted today shows two distinct hill formations that resemble those seen around Marinka.' When it is Yahoo or Daily Mail the truth is seldom seen. CNN, BBC, Telegraph and so on. Mass media collusion with elites blocks balanced coverage. The usual snide remarks to follow but ineffective.
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OK, I read the first sentence. It said the plan wasn't meant to do anything, but was merely for show, and to make the third world think China is a neutral observer.
I have a countersuggestion: it's not meant for third worlders. It's meant for Western pretend-elites who want to believe that China is neutral.
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