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[Korrespondent] 23:08 Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that air defense forces in the city district of Elektrostal allegedly repelled an attack by a drone flying towards the capital, there was no destruction or casualties.
21:44 Defense Minister Rustem Umerov named three main tasks for the new commander of the Medical Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: maximum digitalization of processes and compliance with all standards of medical support and equipment, development of a tactical medicine training system according to NATO standards, as well as constant rotation of doctors for the exchange and transfer of experience.
21:40 The Russians fired a mortar at the civilian infrastructure of the city of Seredina-Buda, Sumy region, one person was killed, the prosecutor’s office reported.
20:59 Zelensky said in an evening video message that, on the recommendation of the Minister of Defense, he replaced the commander of the Medical Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: instead of Major General of the Medical Service Tatyana Ostashchenko, the new commander was Major General of the Medical Service Anatoly Kazmirchuk - Head of the National Military Medical Clinical Center Main Military Clinical Hospital in the city of Kiev.
“The task is obvious - and this has been repeatedly said in society, in particular in the community of our combat medics - we need a fundamentally new level of medical support for our soldiers. From high-quality tourniquets to complete digitalization and transparency in supplies, from high-quality training to sincere communication with combat medics in those units where medicine is deployed truly correctly and effectively. The experience of the effectiveness of specific units should be extended to the entire Defense Forces," the president emphasized.
15:28 If the war in Ukraine is frozen, Russia will have six years to prepare its troops for a direct conflict with NATO, according to a study by the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP). According to experts, Russia may attack the Baltic countries first. The authors of the study cite sources in military circles and German intelligence services in their conclusions.
14:54 Deported Mariupol teenager Bogdan Ermokhin is already in Ukraine, the Presidential Office reported. Today he turned 18 years old, he is next to his sister. The OP thanked partners from Qatar and the international organization UNICEF.
12:39 The Russians shelled Kherson - five people were injured, including a three-year-old child, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. Over the past 24 hours, four people were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
11:41 On the afternoon of November 18, the Russian Army fired artillery at the civilian infrastructure of the town of Znob-Novgorodskoe, Sumy region, two people were wounded, the prosecutor’s office reported. As a result of the attack, six private households were damaged.
10:48 Teenager Bogdan Ermokhin, illegally deported by the Russians from Mariupol, left Russia and is in Belarus. He himself and his lawyer told the publication Verstka about this. Ermokhin’s story resonated after a 17-year-old teenager, taken from Mariupol after its occupation and adopted by a Russian family, received a summons demanding to register with the military registration and enlistment office. Ermokhin turned to Zelensky with a request to help him return home.
09:37 During a night attack by drones in the Kiev region, an infrastructure facility was damaged. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties and the fire was extinguished, said the head of the Kyiv Police Department Ruslan Kravchenko.
09:00 Ukrainian troops have moved the Russian army 3-8 km from the Dnieper to the left bank of the Kherson region, so mortar crews no longer reach the right bank, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the Southern Defense Forces. According to her, Ukrainian forces continue to gain a foothold on the left bank.
At the same time, Gumenyuk emphasized that the Russians continue to shell the right bank of the Kherson region with artillery - this means that they have the opportunity to bring up reserves, and new ones are returning to the place of destroyed positions. According to Gumenyuk, the total number of the Russian group is estimated at “several tens of thousands.” At the same time, the creation of strike groups is not recorded - this means that the Russians do not have the capacity to prepare for active actions.
08:49 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of November 19:
personnel - about 318,570 (+1190) people,
tanks - 5435 (+13),
armored combat vehicles - 10,166 (+25),
artillery systems - 7744 (+18),
MLRS - 898 (+2),
air defense systems - 588 (+2),
aircraft - 323 (+0),
helicopters - 324 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 5755 (+29),
cruise missiles - 1563 (+0),
ships/boats - 22 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 10,120 (+29) units,
special equipment - 1096 (+6).
08:35 In the Cherkasy region, drone debris fell in the Zvenigorod community, five houses were slightly damaged, no people were injured, said the head of the OSA Igor Taburets.
08:28 At night, air defense destroyed 15 of the 20 Shahed attack UAVs that Russia attacked from the north (Kursk region), the Air Force command reported. Air defense operated in the Kyiv, Poltava and Cherkasy regions.
07:50 Over the past 24 hours, 71 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In particular, the Defense Forces repelled 26 attacks in the Avdeevsky direction: east of Keramik, Novobakhmutovka, Stepnoy, Avdeevka of the Donetsk region, as well as 22 attacks in the Maryinsky direction: in the Marinka and Novomikhailovka areas of the Donetsk region.
The defense forces hold positions on the left bank of the Dnieper, Kherson region, continue the offensive in the Melitopol direction and assault operations south of Bakhmut, Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled enemy attacks near Sinkovka and east of Petropavlovka, Kharkov region; on Limansky - in the Torsky district of the Donetsk region; on Bakhmutsky - near Kleshcheevka and Andreevka, Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - near Staromayorsky, Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - in the Rabotino, Novoprokopovka districts and west of Verbovoy, Zaporozhye region.
05:29 At night, Russia again tried to attack Kiev with drones, said the head of the city military administration, Sergei Popko. Enemy UAVs, previously Shahed, were launched by a large number of groups and attacked the capital in waves from different directions, constantly changing movement vectors. Therefore, the alarm was declared in the capital several times. Air defense forces hit about ten enemy targets on the territory of Kyiv and on the approaches to the city. According to preliminary information, no casualties or critical damage were recorded in the city.
01:16 Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that air defense forces in the Bogorodsky urban district allegedly destroyed a drone that was going to attack the capital, there was no damage or casualties.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces, in the course of active operations together with Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, have struck at manpower and hardware of 14th, 41st, 43rd, 44th mechanised and 25th airborne brigades of the AFU close to Petropavlovka, Sinkovka, Ivanovka, Berestovoye (Kharkov region) and Stelmakhovka (Lugansk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were more than 70 troops and two motor vehicles.
In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of competent actions by units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, in cooperation with helicopters and artillery, one attack by assault groups of the 12th Azov Special Purpose Brigade has been repelled south of Kuzmino (Lugansk People's Republic).
Aviation has eliminated manpower and hardware of the 117th Territorial Defence Brigade, the 67th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU, and the 31st Operational Brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard near Yampolovka, north of Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic), and Serebryansky forestry.
The enemy losses were up to 30 servicemen, one armoured fighting vehicle, and two motor vehicles.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces, supported by artillery and heavy flamethrower systems, have repelled six attacks by assault groups of 24th Mechanised, 5th Assault and 95th Air Assault Brigades of the AFU near Klescheevka, Shumy, and Maryinka (Donetsk People's Republic).
In addition, manpower and hardware of 112th, 114th, and 241st territorial defence brigades, as well as 28th and 30th mechanised brigades of the AFU have been hit close to Andreevka, Vasyukovka, Razdolovka, Bogdanovka, Artyomovsk, Krasnoye, Kurdyumovka, and Kleshcheevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were over 240 servicemen killed and wounded, one tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, two motor vehicles, and one Msta-B howitzer.
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces, in cooperation with Ground-Attack, Army aviation and artillery, have struck at manpower and hardware of 72nd mechanised, 79th air assault, 58th motorised infantry brigades of the AFU, and the 127th Territorial Defence Brigade close to Novomikhailovka, Nikolskoye, Shevchenko, Konstantinovka, Novodonetskoye, and Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 145 troops, two motor vehicles, and one Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery system.
In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian Group of Forces, aviation and artillery have inflicted a fire damage on manpower of 33rd, 65th, 117th, and 118th mechanised brigades of the AFU near Rabotino, Kirovo, and north-west of Kopan (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy losses were over 100 servicemen, three armoured fighting vehicles, 11 motor vehicles, as well as one D-30 howitzer.
In Kherson direction, as a result of artillery and aviation strikes, the enemy losses were up to 20 servicemen, two motor vehicles, one Msta-B howitzer, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised manpower and military hardware in 111 areas.
In addition, fuel storage facilities for AFU aircraft have been destroyed at Kanatovo airfield (Kirovograd region).
Ammunition depots of the AFU have been hit near Kirovograd and Olshanitsa (Kiev region).
Air defence facilities have intercepted two HIMARS and Olkha projectiles.
In addition, 31 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down close to Peski, Yakovlevka, Spornoye, Olginka, Dolomitnoye, Verkhnetoretskoye, Maryinka (Donetsk People's Republic), Zolotaryovka, Belogorovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Novaya Kakhovka, Proletarka (Kherson region), and Kamenka-Dneprovskaya (Zaporozhye region).
In total, 536 airplanes and 254 helicopters, 9,040 unmanned aerial vehicles, 441 air defence missile systems, 13,486 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,185 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 7,133 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 15,407 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:55 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 November 19, 2023 to 00:00 November 20, 2023
Over the past 24 hours Representative officereportedabout 7 facts of firing by the VFU.
Information has been received about the death of a civilian, a woman, in Kumachovo.
6 residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk and Dokuchaevsk, as well as 4 civil infrastructure facilities.
Areas of four settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky districts), Dokuchaevsk, Kumachovo.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 2 attacks from 155 mm artillery.
At Gorlivske there were 3 shellings from 155 mm artillery.
At Dokuchaevsky 1 shelling from MLRS.
On Starobeshevo 1 shelling from MLRS. 21 units of various ammunition were produced. INprevious11 shellings were recorded from the VFU during the day.
21:45 Telegram channel “Fisherman“: the battle for Avdievka: advance in the industrial zone in the south and battles near AKHZ,
the situation at the end of November 19, 2023
Russian military personnel are building on their success on the Avdeevsky sector of the front.
On the southern flank, Russian Army soldiers managed to break through enemy defenses in an industrial zone near the Yasinovataya-2 station.
As colleagues from the NGP Razvedka channel report, this was achieved thanks to the competent coordination of assault groups, the work of the Russian Aerospace Forces and artillery.
The fortifications in this area have been controlled by Ukrainian formations since the beginning of the so-called “ATO” in 2014.
The enemy, who did not expect a sharp breakthrough in the defense, retreated, and now the cleanup and expansion of the zone of control to the west continues. However, it is too early to indulge in reports of victory: the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to draw up reserves to the site and are preparing for a counterattack.
Information from the network about the complete liberation of the Tsarskaya Okhota camp site is premature; fierce fighting continues near the site.
There have been no significant changes on the northern flank of Avdievka in recent days: Russian troops managed to expand the zone of control around the wastewater treatment plant near the coke plant and occupy several enemy positions on the approaches to the plant.
Nevertheless, there is no talk of a momentary assault on a well-fortified target: artillery and the Russian Aerospace Forces are almost continuously working on it, suppressing enemy activity.
In addition, fighting continues towards Novokalinovo and Stepovoy (Petrovsky).
The Ukrainian Armed Forces, in turn, again tried to attack in the area of the waste heap near Gorlovka, but came under artillery fire and retreated, losing a couple of dozen people. At the moment, the top of the waste heap is not controlled by either side.
21:30 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for November 19, as of 21:30, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Kumachovo (Starobeshevsky district): - on the street. Lenin, a woman born in 1972 died.
Information was received about damage as a result of shelling by the Air Forces of the cities of the Republic: Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): - st. Avtostradnaya, 28 “v”, 30, 30 “a”, 45 – private residential buildings, gas pipeline and power lines were also damaged.
n.p. Dokuchaevsk: – infrastructure of the Prometey CP, utility equipment was also damaged; – st. Lenina, 86 – apartment building; – st. Vatutina, 5 “a” - multi-apartment residential building.
n.p. Kumachovo (Starobeshevsky district): – damage to three civil infrastructure facilities was recorded on the street. Lenin. Information about the consequences of the shelling continues to arrive.
21:05 In the Avdeevsky direction, fighting at AKHZ is intensifying, the Russian Armed Forces are conducting reconnaissance in force, so far without attempts to gain a foothold
Oleg Tsarev reports on the situation near the walls of Avdeevka.
From Krasnogorovka, our mortars and armored vehicles are hitting the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the territory of the plant. On the southern flank, west of the Yasinovatskaya junction, our fighters are gaining a foothold in the industrial zone, they managed to advance to the north-western part,” he adds
It is reported from the ground that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are fiercely defending themselves and are bringing in more and more reserves. To the west, fighting continues in the direction of Severny and Tonenkoye,” the politician sums up.
20:50 Howtamedrone: training of UAV operators continues at the field training center of the Central Military District
At the center, military personnel are trained to engage the enemy with fire using kamikaze drones, conduct reconnaissance of the area and cover the most inaccessible Ukrainian positions with propaganda materials calling for voluntary surrender. The training cycle also includes engineering, electronic warfare and military topography.
Together with military instructors, technical specialists from the regions of Siberia are training military personnel. They voluntarily arrived in the SVO zone to assist in training UAV operators and repairing drones.
At the field center, the production of components for drones using a 3D printer has been established. Military personnel independently manufacture gimbals, propellers and bodies for drones, and also reflash captured enemy quadcopters for their further use.
20:10 Artemovsk (Bakhmutskoe direction) area of the settlement. Kleshcheevka.Reportedabout the active work of our tactical aviation. Combat aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces worked as UFABs against fortified enemy areas and rear positions. Several sources reported the use of RBK-500 cluster bombs by our frontline aviation.
19:32 A school building, a club and a store were damaged as a result of a missile strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the rear settlement of Kumachevo in the Starobeshevsky district of the DPR, the head of the district said.
There is no information about casualties yet.
18:45 Avdeevskoe direction. District Steppe.Reportedabout the breakthrough of several defensive lines by our armored
units.
Preliminarily, the assault groups worked on the enemy's 82 mm oporniks. mortars.
During the day, Su-25 Grach attack aircraft attacked enemy positions with the help of NURs.
16:45 They arrivemessagesthat our troops managed to take positions near the “Tsar’s Hunt” south of Avdeevka and continue the offensive south of the waste heap (to the northeast of the city).
The industrial zone is now more than half controlled by the Russian Armed Forces.
16:44 RussianoperatorThe FPV drone dropped ammunition ahead of the curve and hit the Ukrainian militant directly
14:51 News from the Vremeevsky ledge area
Reportedabout a powerful attack by our army on enemy positions at Staromairosky and Urozhayny.
It was in this area that our army first began to use RBK-500 aerial cluster bombs.
13:48They report, that in the southern Donetsk direction, Vostok fighters thwarted an attempt at an enemy counterattack in the Staromayorsky area
Three attempts to carry out a rotation in the Urozhainy and Staromayorsky districts ended in nothing for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The vehicles and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces also lost ten mortar crews and an AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery counter-battery station.
12:35 The Russian Army continues to actively advance and regain positions in the Rabotino area and north-west of Verbovoy in the Zaporozhye direction
Yesterday, several forest plantations in the Verbovoy trap were taken by our fighters. In the Rabotino area, three enemy strongholds came under our control.
11:20StatementHead of the press center of the Center group:
In the Krasnolimansky direction in the Torsky sector, the actions of units of the Center group of forces and artillery fire defeated the assault groups of the 24th, 47th and 63rd mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The group's bomber aircraft carried out strikes on two command and observation posts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Serebryansky forestry.
During the counter-battery fight, more than 20 nationalist artillery crews were exposed and suppressed.
Enemy losses amounted to up to 200 Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel, two armored combat vehicles and three pickup trucks.
10:36 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired cannon artillery:
according to n.p. Cossack Camps 8 shells;
according to n.p. Dnepryan 9 shells;
according to n.p. Peschanivka 10 shells;
according to n.p. Alyosha 12 shells;
according to n.p. Saga 7 shells;
according to n.p. Krynki 15 shells;
according to n.p. New Mayachka 6 shells.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Aleshki, n.p. Kardashinka, n.p. Krynki, n.p. Radensk, Golaya Pristan, firing a total of 34 shells from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
10:20 The North Military District talks about the situation in the Donetsk direction:
The enemy reports that our army is currently conducting artillery preparation in the Krasnogorovka area (Maryinsky district). Our heavy artillery and MLRS are working. Enemy positions and fortifications are being destroyed.
10:07 From the Zaporozhye direction the Front Bird reports:
The weather turned bad again. The artillery work died down a little on both sides. Aerial reconnaissance is also waiting for its moment. Both sides are waiting for opportune moments to intensify work.
10:00 Militants of the 1004th separate security battalion (Kiev) and mobilized from the Chernihiv region (143rd brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces) were transferred to the Sinkovka area. The reserves were transferred to the command of the 57th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which suffered heavy losses.
09:17 Front-line report as of the morning of November 19 from military correspondent Yevgeny Lisitsyn:
In the Kherson direction, the main hostilities took place in the center of Krynoki. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying with all their might to hold this bridgehead, and in response, Russian artillery and aviation are working against them. The enemy cannot advance further, but our fighters have not yet been able to clear this area of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the intensity of hostilities decreased. The reason for this is weather conditions. But despite this, the Russian army managed to regain control of several oporniks on the Rabotino-Kopani line.
In the Avdeevsky direction on the southern flank, our fighters continue to advance into the industrial zone, taking control of most of it. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have withdrawn from the holiday village of Vinogradniki, the territory is partially occupied by ours, partially in the gray zone. The Russian army also has a small advance in the area of the railway track near Krasnogorovka.
In the Artyomovsk direction, the Russian army continues to regain control of previously lost positions near Kleshcheevka. Also, according to yet unconfirmed data, our soldiers managed to enter the destroyed Andreevka. In addition, the Russian Armed Forces are pushing back the enemy in the Bogdanovka area.
In the Kupyansky direction, the Russian army is in active defense: counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at Sinkovka and Zagoruykovka are again repelled, and consolidation continues in new positions near Timkovka. Our soldiers also train with the arriving reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkov region.
08:50 Over the past 24 hours, as a result of the criminal actions of Ukrainian nationalists, 3 people were injured as a result of an explosive object being dropped from an unmanned aerial vehicle in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk near the Galaktika shopping center.
While treating a wounded man, an explosive device was repeatedly released, resulting in injuries to two emergency medical personnel.
2 residential buildings in the Central City district of Gorlovka were also damaged.
Shelling of civilian infrastructure in populated areas of the Donetsk People's Republic was carried out using artillery and multiple launch rocket systems - RF Investigative Committee
08:09 Summary for November 19, 2023
In the Kherson direction, the Russian Armed Forces are holding defense on the conditional line Poima-Podstepnoye-Peschanoe-Krynki. The enemy is still in Krynki; in a week, ours destroyed about 500 enemy personnel. Captured enemy soldiers speak of deception by the command regarding the real state of affairs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on our bank of the Dnieper when issuing a combat order. The most serious problem is becoming (on the entire front) FPV drones and drone bombers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which destroy military and civilian equipment on front-line roads and near LBS.
On the Zaporozhye front in the Rabotino-Novoprokopovka-Verbovoye pocket, almost every day the Armed Forces of Ukraine try to push through the defenses, several attacking enemy armored vehicles are destroyed. The Russian Armed Forces conduct a maneuverable defense, periodically counterattacking the enemy. The Kamensky section of the front has come to life: ours are attacking at Pykhatki and hitting the near rear of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The Avdeevka direction is characterized by the most difficult and bloody battles. The Russian army is attacking powerful fortified areas from several sides. There is progress on the northern ledge of the front, some positions have been occupied near the coke plant, and fighting is taking place in the industrial zone in the southern sector.
To the south of Artemovsk, near Kleshcheevka, clashes continue, but without any significant changes in the LSB. North of Artemovsk there are battles at the Berkhovskoe reservoir, the initiative is in the hands of the Russian Armed Forces.
Other sections of the front are without significant changes, shelling of the front-line regions of Russia continues, the enemy continues to attack Crimea from water and air.
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[REGNUM] The modern history of Ukraine began with a coup d'etat, which explained the decisive actions of the Maidan activists. If the hydration revolution had failed, everyone would have sat down. Moreover, in addition to actions aimed at violently changing or overthrowing the constitutional system and seizing power, the Maidan heroes simultaneously engaged in robbery, hooliganism, attacks on law enforcement officers, beat and killed people, burned houses, attacked military units and police stations, capturing weapon.
In general, they used all available forms of “peaceful protest.”
That is why the demand to understand and forgive all its participants was one of the first; the amnesty law was adopted by the “criminal regime” at the end of December 2013 and came into force at the beginning of February 2014. Subsequently, the participants in the revolutionary events were elevated to the rank of national heroes, however, the expression “coup d’etat” terribly worried the new government. It was defined as a “Kremlin narrative”, prohibited for use, and on the website of the educational project “To the Lesson” there was even a special presentation for schools, which explained why the revolution of hydity should under no circumstances be called that.
The main argument is very clear - there was no court decision. In addition, since power in the country, according to the constitution, belongs to the people, they gathered and exercised their right to change the constitutional system, which was supported by democratic countries. As we know, they cannot make mistakes.
Exactly the same people living in the eastern regions of the country were categorically denied such a right. In 2014, a bloody civil war began with the simultaneous usurpation of power. No one looked at the constitution then—it was simply trampled upon. And in most cases, any actions falling under the articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine were simply ignored, explaining everything with the same revolutionary expediency. “We need to defend our homeland.”
The highest goal justifies any crime, and in the gloomy, dirty and backward Donbass, as it has been persistently explained to citizens for many years, it is not people who live.
Therefore, from the first days of the “anti-terrorist operation”, the Maidan authorities made criminal offenses the basis and support of state policy. Including, of course, terrorism.
Article 258 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is very categorical on this matter, describing a terrorist act not only as “the use of weapons, the commission of an explosion, arson or other actions that created a danger to human life or health, or causing significant property damage...” , but also revealing its emotional and the political component. Namely, when aggressive actions were committed with the aim of violating public safety, intimidating the population, provoking a military conflict, international complications, or with the aim of influencing decision-making by state authorities, local government, etc.
This is exactly what happened in Donbass, when the illegal use of the army against its own citizens, the creation of illegal armed groups, and the destruction of critical infrastructure was aimed primarily at intimidation. The goal was to force both individuals and “associations of citizens” to change their decision to live separately from the Kyiv regime, accept the ideals of the Maidan and renounce the Russian heresy.
The conflict then swayed purposefully, more and more lives were thrown into the furnace of war until it became as irrevocable as the Maidan. This was done, among other things, with a specific political goal: to exclude millions of disloyal voters from the legal field before early elections.
At the same time, outright lies, like the cynical action “Je suis Volnovakha,” were brought to the international level to create complications. Then, as you know, President Petro Poroshenko demonstrated abroad a piece of bus casing, near which 12 people were killed and 16 were injured from the explosion of a Ukrainian directed mine. “Pro-Russian terrorists” were blamed for their deaths. That is, the fact of the terrorist attack being committed by the Ukrainian authorities has been recognized and requires only minor clarifications in essence.
This baton was intercepted by the new “president of the world” Vladimir Zelensky.
On specially created resources “to combat fakes,” Ukrainian propagandists, in the same way as in the case of the educational portal, explain why he is not a terrorist. That this is another Kremlin narrative designed to denigrate the noble work of protecting Ukraine.
Scientific and practical commentary to Art. 258 leaves no room for doubt.
During the summer of 2019, when Zelensky first took office, the Ukrainian side fired at the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics 1,370 times, despite the ceasefire agreement. As before, schools and kindergartens continued to be destroyed and civilians were killed. The new head of state quickly came to terms with this, accepting actions that cause grave harm to people, enterprises, property, and the environment as the norm.
In the spring of 2022, Donetsk found itself in hell, and this was a conscious decision aimed primarily at civilians. Hours of destructive shelling of the entire city, destruction of water pipelines, electrical networks and substations, mining of residential areas with prohibited Lepestok mines, destruction of residential buildings, creation of a “human shield” from the civilian population during the battles for Mariupol and other cities - all this fully corresponds to the definition terrorist attack
In addition, this was done to “attract public attention to certain political, religious or other views of the perpetrator (terrorist).”
Mass executions of civilians followed by an “installation”, the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station dam, missile attacks on ordinary people in Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka were necessarily associated with Zelensky’s desire to make his views the object of international attention. With his desire to provoke an escalation of the conflict, to drag other countries and their associations into it.
The case with a rocket in Konstantinovka, fully described and proven by journalists from Bild and the New York Times, when 16 people were killed and 36 were injured in the market, had a single purpose. Impress US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and persuade him to make decisions beneficial to the Kyiv regime. “By prior agreement by a group of people,” people were cynically killed for the picture, after looking at which the guests and hosts calmly went to dinner at McDonald’s. Only this episode is punishable by life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
As a matter of fact, endless Ukrainian attacks on cities and towns in the Kursk, Belgorod, Bryansk regions, launching drones across Moscow, attempts to hit nuclear power plants, airfields, bridges are all the same attempts to “destabilize the socio-political situation in society or in individual regions , disorganize the work of authorities, cause shock in the population, a feeling of tension, insecurity, anxiety and public concern, sow fear and helplessness, etc.”
As head of state and commander-in-chief, Zelensky cannot be unaware of the decisions being made, and even when crimes were clearly committed by his subordinates, he never condemned them. As never before, actions falling under Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine “Violation of the laws and customs of war” have never been condemned. There is only one law - the Maidan law.
But, on the other hand, this greatly facilitates the future work of the investigation and the court. Everything that the “patriots of their country” have done in ten years is defined as serious crimes by their own laws. And it is now hardly possible to refer to someone’s bias.
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[Regnum] In the coming days, the air temperature in a number of regions of Siberia will drop noticeably. A sharp cooling is expected in the Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk regions, Khakassia, Yakutia and the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Roman Vilfand, scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, announced this on November 19.
Vilfand warned residents of six Russian regions about 40-degree frosts
In the Novosibirsk, Omsk, and Tomsk regions, the air temperature will drop by 10–15 degrees. Already at the beginning of next week, November 20, the air in the Tomsk region will not warm up more than -10 degrees, and at night the thermometers will drop to 27-30 degrees below zero. In the Krasnoyarsk Territory on November 20 the temperature will drop to minus 15 degrees.
“In Khakassia, by the middle of the week the temperature will drop to minus 30 degrees, and in Yakutia - to minus 40 degrees,” the meteorologist said in a conversation with TASS.
In addition, in a number of regions, a “cold wave”—a deviation from the norm of seven degrees or more—should be expected within several days. We are talking about the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (up to -25 degrees), the Murmansk region (up to 22 degrees below zero, which is 9-12 degrees below normal), Karelia (up to -16 degrees) and Komi (up to -26...29 degrees)
As Regnum reported , Vilfand previously warned that dangerous natural phenomena should be expected in the coming days in the Belgorod, Voronezh, Novosibirsk and Tomsk regions, Krasnodar Territory, Crimea and a number of other regions . In particular, wind gusts can reach from 25 to 35 m/s; meteorologists also expect heavy rain, thunderstorms, snow and ice in places. In addition, according to him, a deep cyclone will pass through the Kursk, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Tambov and Belgorod regions.
On November 19, a number of regions of Siberia found themselves in the grip of a powerful hurricane. The Kemerovo region, Altai and Krasnoyarsk territories, as well as the Altai Republic suffered from the rampant disaster.
In January 2024, in Moscow and the Moscow region, weather forecasters expect temperatures close to normal, but the weather will be very changeable.
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[ColonelCassad] A little about the horrors of the Red Terror in Karelia.
I recently wrote about Soviet Police Day, and then I remembered an old post about our Olonets security officers. So, the minutes of the meeting of the Olonets provincial Cheka from May 1919, when the White Finns stood not far from Petrozavodsk.
HEARD: About comrade Shumilov, who was repeatedly seen drunk.
DECIDED: For the first time, appoint Comrade. Shumilov in appearance. For the future, warn all employees of Gubchek that if any of them are found drunk, they will be shot.
A copy of this document was given to me by one of the local historians. The image is not of very good quality and initially there was no confidence that it was not a fake.
Although the names of security officers Luzgin and Terukov are indeed present in historical documents. However, last year a seminar “The Civil War in Karelia: on the centenary of its end” was held at Petrozavodsk University. In particular, the historian of the special services, Konstantin Belousov, gave a report on the judicial and emergency authorities of Karelia. I asked him about this document, which had been going around for a long time. And he confirmed that Comrade. Shumilov really existed!
Moreover, he remained alive, apparently heeding the warning. Otherwise he could have become the twentieth victim of the “Red Terror”.
Why twentieth? But because, according to reports for 1918 - 1919, throughout the Olonets province, the local Cheka shot 19 enemies of Soviet power. At the same time, in Petrozavodsk itself it was even softer. There is a book by local historian Valery Verkhoglyadov “Northern Trefoil”. The author, as a typical journalist of the organ of the Karelian regional committee of the Komsomol of the perestroika era, naturally could not do without cliched accusations and comparisons of the Bolsheviks with... Basayev. But he described local realities very objectively:
So, in 1918, several dozen people from the “former” were arrested in Petrozavodsk. After two months, everyone was released. The following year, when the White Finns reached almost the outskirts of Petrozavodsk, the same situation repeated itself. Again, several dozen former officials, merchants and other similar people were detained.
They were not shot or drowned on a barge in the cold waters of Onego. Moreover, they were not even flogged, as noble gentlemen often did to Russian peasants! (For which many descendants of these flogged peasants love to talk in the comments about how well they would have lived if the whites had won).
Local historian Verkhoglyadov described how the detainees bombarded the local council with their complaints about injustice. And after the White Finnish detachments were driven away from Petrozavodsk, all those arrested were released. That's all. I repeat, it was not so humane everywhere, but that’s how it was here.
Despite the fact that during the same time, Russian White Guards and especially White Finnish formations killed hundreds of supporters of Soviet power. For example,in a couple of months of 1919, the White Finns and Karelians, who fought on their side, shot 286 communists, members of their families and simply peasants who sympathized with Soviet power in the Olonets district alone.
A Ukrainian claims to have the record for longest sniper kill in history
The SBU sniper reportedly managed to pick off a Russian soldier from 2.36 miles
The previous record was held by a Canadian special operations soldier
A Ukrainian sniper claims to be a world record holder after picking off a Russian soldier from 2.36 miles away with a custom rifle called 'Lord of the Horizon'.
The unnamed soldier, who serves in Ukraine's security service (SBU), reportedly managed to beat the previous record of 2.2 miles, made by a Canadian special operations sniper in Iraq in 2017.
Video reportedly shows the target falling several seconds after the SBU sniper took the shot.
A line of three stationary Russian soldiers quickly becomes a line of two as the bullet takes the soldier out at the unknown location.
The SBU said: '[Our] snipers are rewriting the rules of global sniping, showcasing unparalleled abilities to operate effectively at remarkable distances.'
The Ukrainian military gave no other details, such as when or where it was filmed, nor did it say how it had confirmed the sniper's effort.
'Lord of the Horizon' was developed and made by MAYAK, a Ukrainian arms manufacturer, and comes in at an enormous 6ft in length, the Firearms Blog reports.
With the correct ammunition, the rifle can fire bullets that travel faster than the speed of sound for nearly 10,000ft.
The shot comes after another Ukrainian sniper claimed to have executed the second-longest combat kill in history in 2022.
The unnamed soldier felled a Russian target at a distance of 2,710m – around 1.7 miles – according to Ukraine's military, which last year published what it claimed was footage of the shot looking down the sniper's scope.
Footage published last year by the Ukrainian armed forces of their kill showed an image of a man moving among trees before the shooter centres their crosshair on his chest.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
