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[Regnum] The agreement on the construction of a Russian naval base in Sudan will be considered by the country's new parliament, which will be formed after elections this year. Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Sadiq Ali announced this on the sidelines of the Diplomatic Forum in Antalya on March 5.
“We are of the position that a new parliament should emerge, which will review the agreement and develop a recommendation for the government, ” the head of the foreign policy department said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
At the same time, he emphasized that it is expected that parliament will give a positive response and the agreement will be ratified.
As Regnum reported, the possibility of creating a Russian military base in Sudan on the Red Sea coast was discussed with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu in November 2017 by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
In November 2020, Putin approved the government’s proposal to sign an agreement with Sudan to create a logistics support center for the Russian Navy. It is expected that Russian sailors will use this point to repair ships, replenish supplies and rest.
At the beginning of June 2021, Sudan announced its intention to reconsider the agreement with Russia on the creation of a military base in the Red Sea.
Russia does crave its warm water ports…
As explained by the Chief of the General Staff of Sudan, Mohammed Usman al-Hussein, this agreement was signed under the previous regime of Omar al-Bashir, but the legislature did not ratify it, as required by the procedure for approving international treaties.
Al Arabiya TV channel reported on April 28, 2021 that Sudan’s military leadership allegedly suspended an agreement with Russia on a naval base in Port Sudan. The Russian Embassy in Khartoum called this information unreliable. Later, the Sudanese foreign ministry denied reports of the document being frozen and noted that such information had also not been received from Russia.
In July 2021, the Sudanese authorities informed the Russian side about the start of the ratification process of the relevant agreement with Moscow.
In February 2023, Sudanese authorities completed the process of revising a bilateral agreement with Russia on the deployment of a Russian naval base in Sudan. The agreement must now go through the ratification procedure. However, due to the dissolution of parliament and the internal political crisis in the country, this process is still being delayed.
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[LB] In the Kherson direction, the Russians do not stop trying to knock the defenders out of their positions. Two unsuccessful assaults were carried out.
by Iryna Lysohor
Defenders repelled 28 attacks in the Avdiivsk direction in the areas of Novoselyvka, Berdychi, Tonenke, Pervomaiske, Nevelske settlements of the Donetsk region. The spokesman of the General Staff, Andriy Kovalev, announced this on the air of the telethon.
In the Orihiv direction, the occupiers attacked in the vicinity of the village of Robotyne. In the Novopavlivka direction, the Defense Forces continue to hold back the enemy in the districts of Georgiivka, Novomykhailivka, Vodyanyi, Prechistivka, and Urozhayny, where the enemy tried to break through the defenses of our troops 22 times.
In the Kupyan direction, the Russians carried out seven attacks in the areas of Sinkivka and Tabaivka settlements of Kharkiv region.
In Lymanskyi, the defenders repelled four attacks by the occupiers in Terni district of Donetsk region and Belogorivka district of Luhansk region.
On Bakhmutsky, the defenders repelled six attacks near Andriyivka, Ivanovsky, and Klishchiivka.
In the Kherson direction, the Russians do not stop trying to knock the defenders out of their positions. Two unsuccessful assaults were carried out.
In total, there were 74 combat clashes during the day, the enemy launched five rockets and more than 60 airstrikes.
Tonight, the Russians struck the Odesa region with drones. Out of 22, defenders knocked down 18, but there are also hits.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:25 The United States is not going to send its troops to participate in hostilities in Ukraine, said White House National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby: “Zelensky never asked for foreign troops to fight for his country. He and his troops want to do that, but they need funds, and that’s where we need to help them.”
22:08 France invited the foreign and defense ministers of Ukraine and its main allies, as well as the NATO Secretary General, to take part in a video conference on March 7 to demonstrate a “united front” and develop concrete proposals to strengthen support for Ukraine, writes Reuters. The invitation says that the meeting, in particular, will consider ways to speed up the supply and production of artillery shells and missiles.
21:27 In the Liman-Kupyansk direction, the Russians are holding more than 100 thousand military personnel - this figure has not changed for several months, said the head of the Kharkov OVA Oleg Sinegubov. According to him, the Russian army continues to press daily near Sinkovka and Tabaevka, trying to realize its offensive potential, but to no avail. “In Tabaevka, the enemy is conducting active military operations in order to achieve tactical success, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces are giving a worthy rebuff. The goal of our military is to occupy the heights from which the enemy is advancing,” said Sinegubov.
He also said that out of hundreds of thousands of concentrated enemy military, there are about 40 thousand attack aircraft, the rest are support and logistics. “And it is these 40 thousand that constantly need to be replenished, because their losses are huge. The enemy is so demoralized that the Russian military leadership on the ground resorts to the practice of barrage detachments,” Sinegubov noted.
19:31 Zelensky, in an evening video message, thanked the International Criminal Court for arrest warrants for two military leaders of the Russian Federation: “In particular, they carried out and are carrying out a terrorist campaign against our state and people - strikes against our energy sector, our civilian infrastructure. These are obvious crimes - war crimes "Russia's crimes and crimes against humanity. And it is in this regard that there is a fundamental movement in the International Criminal Court. Once international justice begins to work, it can no longer be stopped. Justice for Ukraine, for Ukrainians and for the international community as a whole will definitely be restored."
19:24 Macron supported the Czech plan to supply Ukraine with 800 thousand artillery shells from non-EU countries. In his opinion, funds for this initiative could be obtained through bilateral funding or cooperation with third parties. “It could also be European funding, funding from the European Peace Fund, which could be partially mobilized for this initiative,” the French President added.
19:08 Czech President Petr Pavel called on EU countries to expand assistance to Ukraine, including the possible dispatch of foreign troops. At the same time, he clarified that we are not talking about sending combat units, but about “non-combat participation.” According to the Czech president, it makes no difference whether Ukrainian soldiers, for example, undergo training with Western instructors abroad or directly in Ukraine. “Ukraine, although it was attacked, still remains a sovereign country,” Pavel emphasized, adding that a possible training mission is not a violation of international rules.
18:20 Ukrainian unmanned boats on the Black Sea have proven to be a very effective means - especially in conditions where Russia does not have the ability to track their movements in advance. This time the patrol corvette Sergei Kotov suffered from them. Everything that is known about the ship and its destruction is in the material New attack on a Russian ship.
17:41 The US State Department announced new sanctions against Russia. The restrictions included, in particular, the Russian Aerospace Forces, Wagner PMC, the Eltechnord company from St. Petersburg, and two individuals - citizens of Russia and the DPRK. They are accused of violating national legislation on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, in relation to Iran, North Korea and Syria.
17:25 The Russian Ministry of Defense still cannot cope with the consequences of a cyber attack by Ukrainian specialists - as of March 5, the official website of the law enforcement agency is still not working, the Main Intelligence Directorate reported. IP telephony, domains of the Russian Ministry of Defense, as well as servers that provided electronic document flow for the Russian department also remain blocked.
16:47 The meeting between Orban and Zelensky will not take place until Ukraine “returns the rights” to the Hungarian national community, said Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó.
16:08 US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland announced her intention to resign within the coming weeks. Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed her resignation and said Nuland's efforts "have been essential to countering Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, to forging a global coalition to ensure his strategic failure, and to helping Ukraine reach the day when it can stand on its own two feet." - democratically, economically and militarily." Nulland will be replaced temporarily by Deputy Secretary of State for Management John Bass.
15:51 The International Criminal Court in The Hague issued arrest warrants for the commander of long-range aviation of the Russian Federation Sergei Kobylash and the commander of the Black Sea Fleet Viktor Sokolov.
The ICC statement said that this decision was made “for probable crimes committed between at least October 10, 2022 and at least March 9, 2023.” The court notes that there are “sufficient grounds” to believe that both suspects are responsible, in particular, for missile attacks on Ukrainian energy system facilities.
15:49 Syrsky said that together with Umerov he had a telephone conversation with the Norwegian Minister of Defense Bjorn Arild Gram. We discussed the situation at the front, the urgent needs of Ukraine, in particular in artillery and air defense, as well as expanding cooperation in the defense industry.
15:45 According to preliminary data, as a result of the attack on the patrol ship Sergei Kotov, the crew losses were: seven irrevocable and six sanitary, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported. Another 52 crew members on the ship were probably evacuated.
15:38 The Russians fired at the village on the evening of March 4. Senkovo, Kurilov community, Kharkov region, the driver of the emergency medical care center was injured, the prosecutor's office reported.
14:56 Ukrainian drone manufacturers can already produce up to 150 thousand UAVs per month, and by the end of the year Ukraine can reach a total figure of 2 million drones, said Deputy Minister of Strategic Industry Anna Gvozdyar.
14:14 The European Commission presented the first ever European Defense Industrial Strategy at the EU level. The document identifies the challenges facing the European defense technological and industrial base, the opportunities for exploiting its full potential and the directions for development over the next decade. The document also emphasizes the need for closer ties with Ukraine, in particular cooperation between the EU and Ukrainian defense industries.
The strategy aims to “create a culture of constant readiness in the defense industry.” It is based on the principle of “producing more, faster and together”. According to the document, within three years the EU intends to invest 1.5 billion euros in defense industry programs from the general budget.
13:35 Canada will consider sending military instructors to Ukraine if “certain conditions” are met, Defense Minister Bill Blair said. At the same time, he emphasized that the Canadian military can only be sent to Ukraine to perform non-combat functions: “Currently, circumstances do not allow training in Ukraine, but we are going to continue training... We have held a number of discussions with the Ukrainians, who say that When conditions are right, we can return... The Canadian Armed Forces cannot play any combat role or what could be perceived as a combat role."
12:56 Russian public pages write that during the attack on the ship Sergei Kotov, the Ka-29 onboard helicopter was destroyed and the AK-176 artillery mount was blown up. Information about the destroyed helicopter was also confirmed by Ukrainskaya Pravda sources. The ship was attacked by five naval drones. After the impact, they tried to tow it to the port of Feodosia, but during the movement it sank.
12:49 Chinese special envoy for Ukraine Li Hui has already visited Moscow and Brussels. He was given the task of “testing the waters” regarding the prospects for peace negotiations, writes the South China Morning Post. He must also find out "how Europe's view of the situation has changed." At negotiations with EU representatives, he also called for a refusal to impose sanctions against Chinese companies. Next, the special envoy will visit several European capitals and Ukraine.
12:17 After months of disputes, the European Union is gradually making progress in the case of the seizure of excess profits received from frozen Russian assets blocked in Belgium, writes the Financial Times. According to officials, in the coming weeks the European Commission will come up with a proposal to seize future income from Russian assets.
11:36 German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that the leak of a conversation between officers about Taurus missiles was not due to hacking of communication systems, but due to the connection of one of the participants via an unsecured connection.
11:25 In the morning, the Russians shelled the village of Kurilovka, Kupyansky district, Kharkov region, one person was killed, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. In addition, today a woman who was wounded on February 15 as a result of Russian shelling of the village of Chernoye, Kupyansky district, died in the hospital.
11:01 The attack on an oil depot in the Belgorod region was a GUR operation, Ukrainskaya Pravda reports, citing an intelligence source. According to the interlocutor, the oil depot is used for military purposes.
10:53 In the Samara region of the Russian Federation, another “foreign object” was found on a stretch, train traffic was suspended, the local railway reported.
10:46 The Main Intelligence Directorate showed a video of the operation to destroy the ship. Sergei Kotov:
10:28 Russian media write, citing emergency services, that three tanks are burning at an oil depot near Belgorod after the “fall” of the UAV. At the same time, the Ministry of Emergency Situations claims that one tank was allegedly damaged, and the open fire has already been extinguished.
10:23 Ukraine had previously attacked the Russian ship Sergei Kotov, but after that it was restored. This time the ship was definitely destroyed, said GUR representative Andrey Yusov. According to him, the ship not only served as a patrol boat, but the enemy planned to place anti-aircraft missile systems on it. As a result of the attack, there were dead and wounded; part of the crew was able to evacuate, Yusov added.
In turn, the speaker of the Naval Forces, Dmitry Pletenchuk, said that the patrol ship Sergei Kotov guarded the Kerch Strait. In total, the Russian Black Sea Fleet has four vessels of this design, and two of them are already out of commission. Such ships can perform different tasks at sea, and their destruction has a significant impact on the performance of these tasks, Pletenchuk noted.
09:42 The European Commission will today offer the EU ways to stimulate its defense industry so that it can move into a “war economy mode” in response to Russia’s war against Ukraine, writes Reuters.
09:04 The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoyt, claims that the Glushkovo railway station was allegedly fired upon from the Ukrainian side, but there were no casualties. And the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, announced an “emergency” in the Gubkinsky urban district: there was an explosion, after which a fire started at an infrastructure facility. Public accounts write that drones attacked an oil depot in Dolgy.
08:49 Ukraine destroyed the Russian Black Sea Fleet patrol ship Sergei Kotov near the Kerch Strait. The ship was attacked by the special unit of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Group 13 in cooperation with the Ukrainian Navy and with the support of the Ministry of Digital Development, intelligence reported. As a result of a strike by Magura V5 naval drones, the Russian Project 22160 ship Sergei Kotov received damage to the stern, starboard and port sides. The cost of the sunken ship is about $65 million.
08:32 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 5:
personnel - about 419,020 (+1070) people,
tanks - 6657 (+9),
armored combat vehicles - 12,688 (+28),
artillery systems - 10,258 (+48),
MLRS - 1007 (+3),
air defense weapons - 700 (+2),
aircraft - 347 (+0),
helicopters - 325 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 7863 (+18),
cruise missiles - 1917 (+1),
ships/boats - 25 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 13,423 (+49),
special equipment - 1630 (+9).
08:07 Over the past 24 hours, 74 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In particular, the enemy tried 22 times to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops in the Novopavlovsk direction (in the areas of Georgievka, Novomikhailovka, Vodyanoye, Prechistovka and Urozhaynoye in the Donetsk region). Another 28 enemy attacks were repulsed in the Avdeevsky direction - in the areas of the settlements of Novoselovka, Berdychi, Tonenkoye, Pervomaiskoye, Nevelskoye in the Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansky direction, seven attacks were repelled in the Sinkovka and Tabaevka areas of the Kharkov region; in Limansky - four attacks in the areas of Ternov, Donetsk region and Belogorivka, Lugansk region; in Bakhmutsky - six attacks in the Andreevka, Ivanovsky and Kleshcheevka districts of the Donetsk region; on Orekhovsky - one attack in the Rabotino area of the Zaporozhye region; on Kherson - two attacks.
07:16 In the Odessa region, as a result of a night attack by drones, the building of a recreational facility that has not been functioning since the beginning of the full-scale invasion was damaged. A fire broke out and was quickly extinguished. A private house was also damaged in the recreational area, but no people were injured, the Southern Defense Forces reported.
07:05 Air defense at night destroyed 18 of the 22 Shahed-type attack drones that Russia attacked from the Crimean Balaklava, the Air Force command reported. The drones were destroyed within the Odessa region.
02:43 The Russian Ministry of Defense in its magazine Military Thought published an article about a possible scenario of an attack on Russia. According to the “estimates” of the Russian military, the air-ground or air-sea operation “will begin with a quick global strike and simultaneously with several massive missile and air strikes.” The authors of the article believe that “before the start of the active phase of the operation, the enemy will act aggressively and provocatively: conduct all types of reconnaissance, regular flights of aircraft and drones near the borders of the Russian Federation, including flights of strategic bombers.”
“In this regard, it is necessary to develop new views on the organization of the combat use of aviation forces both in peacetime and in wartime,” the article says.
We know, and if ya'll read rantburg.com, you'd know, too.
[Korrespondent] After the GUR cyber attack, the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense has not been working for 24 hours.
IP telephony, domains of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as well as servers that provided electronic document management for the structure remain blocked.
The website of the Russian Ministry of Defense cannot cope with the consequences of a cyber attack by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The services have not been working for 24 hours. The press service of the Main Intelligence Directorate reported this on Tuesday, March 5.
“The Ministry of Defense of the aggressor state cannot cope with the consequences of a cyber attack by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. As of March 5, the official website of the enemy’s law enforcement agency is still down,” the message says.
The Main Intelligence Directorate noted that IP telephony, domains of the Russian Ministry of Defense, as well as servers that provided electronic document management for the structure remained blocked.
GUR representative Andrey Yusov said during the telethon that these are significant amounts of data.
"We are talking about both personal data of the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defense and valuable information in the context of software, which will allow such operations to continue. Of course, we are not talking about the complete destruction of their digital infrastructure, but these are significant achievements. This is an important database that will allow continue such actions on a larger scale," he said.
Let us remind you that the day before the Main Intelligence Directorate staged a large-scale DDoS attack on the servers of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Recently, the largest Internet portal in Russia, Mail.ru, was successfully attacked by Ukrainian hackers from the IT Army of Ukraine. The email service has completely stopped working.
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[Korrespondent] Ukrainian military continues to confront the enemy.
During the day, the defense forces repelled 34 attacks by Russian invaders in the Novopavlovsk direction.
During the day, 76 military clashes took place at the front. The defense forces repelled 34 Russian attacks in the Novopavlovsk direction. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced this in an evening report on Tuesday, March 5.
In total, Russian troops carried out two missile and 67 air strikes, and carried out 95 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas.
In the Kupyansk direction the enemy did not conduct offensive (assault) operations. In the Liman direction, soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled five attacks by Russians in the area of the village of Terny, Donetsk region, where the invaders, with the support of aviation, tried to break through the defenses.
In the Bakhmut direction, the Defense Forces repelled one enemy attack in the area of the Belaya Gora settlement in the Donetsk region, where the enemy tried to improve its tactical position.
In the Avdeevsky direction, defenders repelled 22 attacks by Russian invaders in the areas of the settlements of Berdich, Tonechko, Pervomaiskoye, Nevelskoye, Semenovka and Orlovka.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the Defense Forces continue to contain the enemy in the Georgievka, Novomikhailovka, Prechistovka and Krasnohorivka areas of the Donetsk region, where the Russians, with the support of aviation, tried 34 times to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian troops.
In the Orekhovsky direction, the invaders carried out five unsuccessful attacks in the areas of the settlements of Gulyaypole, Malinovka and Roabotino.
In the Dnieper (Kherson) direction, the enemy does not abandon the intention to knock out Ukrainian units from the bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnieper. Despite significant losses, he does not abandon attempts to dislodge the Ukrainian Armed Forces from their positions. Thus, during the day the enemy carried out two unsuccessful assault operations.
During the day, Defense Forces aircraft carried out strikes on 11 areas where enemy personnel were concentrated.
Units of the missile forces damaged the area where personnel, weapons and military equipment, ammunition were concentrated, the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system and the Zoo-1 reconnaissance and fire control radar complex.
Let us remind you that on the night of March 5, the Ukrainian military sank the Russian ship Sergei Kotov with Magura V5 sea drones.
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[KavkazUzel] Employees of the Russian Interests Section in Georgia removed the memorial to Alexei Navalny in Tbilisi. Activists managed to move some of the candles, notes and flowers to the Pushkin monument.
As the Caucasian Knot wrote, dozens of people came to the Russian interests section at the Swiss Embassy in Tbilisi on March 1 to lay flowers and light candles in memory of Alexei Navalny on the day of his funeral. Since the death of Navalny, a memorial to the opposition politician has been located near the building.
On February 16, Alexei Navalny died in a colony after, according to a statement from the Federal Penitentiary Service, his condition sharply worsened. Residents of Russian cities, including in the south of the country, were persecuted for attempting to lay flowers in memory of Navalny at memorials to victims of political repression. Information about rallies in memory of Alexei Navalny, which are held in the south of Russia and in the countries of the South Caucasus, as well as the reaction of security forces to these actions, was collected by the "Caucasian Knot" in the information " Actions in memory of Alexei Navalny in the Caucasus "
Employees of the Russian interests section in Georgia today liquidated the memorial to Alexei Navalny, as follows from videos published on social networks.
Activists, while three men were collecting flowers in garbage bags, tried to save the most valuable things - notes, candles, in order to move them to another place, Paper Kartuli reported today in its Telegram channel.
The man who was dismantling the memorial called it "trash." Activists filmed what was happening on video, as follows from the video.
One of the activists trying to preserve part of the memorial asked the employee if he was sleeping well. “We’ve grieved and that’s enough. How long will you keep the flowers here?” - he replied, as follows from another video.
Russian opposition activists carried photographs, candles and notes in memory of Navalny to the Pushkin monument in the center of Tbilisi, the Georgia News agency reported today. Collected at the monument are notes, portraits, and flowers that were rescued from the destroyed Navalny memorial near the Russian interests section.
And they're back.
[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted fire damage on clusters of manpower and military hardware of the 60th Mechanised, 25th Airborne, and 68th Infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Yampolovka, Terny (Donetsk People's Republic), and Sverdlovka (Lugansk People's Republic).
Moreover, the Russian troops repelled five attacks of the 41st Mechanised and 57th Motorised Infantry brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces close to Sin'kovka (Khar'kov region).
The enemy lost up to 35 Ukrainian troops and four motor vehicles.
In counter-battery warfare one U.S.-made M777 artillery system, one Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and one 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS vehicle were destroyed.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions along the front line, and inflicted fire damage on the AFU 81st Airmobile, 22nd, 33rd, and 42nd Mechanised, 92nd Assault brigades, as well as 241st Territorial Defence Brigade near Novomikhailovka, Pobeda, Belogorovka, Novoye, and Kurdyumovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Moreover, two enemy's counterattacks were repelled close to Kleshcheyevka and Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 300 troops, two tanks, two armoured personnel carriers, and three motor vehicles.
In counterbattery warfare, one U.S.-made M198 howitzer, two 152mm D-20 guns, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, two 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS were neutralised.
In Avdeyevka direction, the Tsentr Group's units have taken more advantageous lines and positions.
During the day, the Russian troops launched strikes at manpower and hardware of the AFU 24th, 31st, 47th, and 61st Mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Netailovo, Novosyolovka, Pervaya, and Toretsk (Donetsk People's Republic).
Three counter-attacks of the AFU units were repelled close to Kirovo, Berdychi, and Shumy, as well as 10 counterattacks close to Tonenkoye, Orlovka, and Pervomayskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses amounted to up to 500 Ukrainian troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, including Bradley IFV and U.S.-made M113 APC, four motor vehicles, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces inflicted losses on units of AFU 102nd, 128th Territorial Defence brigades close to Vodyanoye (Donetsk People's Republic) and Malinovka (Zaporozhye region).
Up to 230 Ukrainian personnel, two tanks, two armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, and one vehicle of the Stormer SAM system (UK) were neutralised.
In Kherson direction, the Dnepr Group of Forces' units inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware clusters of AFU 117th Mechanised, 38th Naval Infantry, and 121st Territorial Defence brigades, and 15th National Guard Brigade near Sadovoye, Mikhailovka (Kherson region), and Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region).
One counter-attack launched by an assault detachment of the AFU 118th Mechanised Brigade was repelled near Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy lost up to 25 Ukrainian troops and three motor vehicles.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed S-300 SAM launchers near Mayaki (Donetsk People's Republic) and Buk near Vozdvizhenka (Donetsk People's Republic), and an UAV command post near Novokalinovo (Donetsk People's Republic), as well as manpower and military hardware in 104 areas.
Russian air defence systems have shot down one Mi-29 fighter jet of Ukrainian Air Force near Lyubomirovka (Nikolayev region).
Air defence units have also intercepted four HIMARS projectiles over the past 24 hours.
In addition, 112 unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed during the day near Peschanoye, Nikolskoye, Staromikhailovka, Latochkino (Donetsk People's Republic), and Romanovskoye (Zaporozhye region).
In total, 576 airplanes and 267 helicopters, 14,305 unmanned aerial vehicles, 479 air defence missile systems, 15,360 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,233 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 8,299 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 19,365 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 21:03 Ukrainian troops fired ten NATO 155mm caliber rounds at a number of areas of Donetsk, reported representationDPR at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC). 19:50 Mobile anti-tank group of Transbaikal paratroopers destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry group
Units of a separate guards airborne formation from Buryatia continue to successfully carry out combat missions in the Artyomovsk direction.
A crew of paratroopers in a pickup truck equipped with a Fagot anti-tank missile system destroyed a group of UAF infantry of up to eight people with an accurate strike.
19:26 Military personnel of motorized rifle units of the West group of forcesacceptparticipation in early voting in the elections of the head of state.
Kupyansk direction
The election process is organized in accordance with the Federal Law “On the Election of the President of the Russian Federation”.
18:37 The rotation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not go according to plan. Damaged infantry fighting vehicles and a pickup truck.
Zaporozhye direction.
Verbovoe —video.
17:42 Front bird broadcasts:
Artemovsk direction 05.03
The assault units of the Russian Armed Forces worked against enemy shelters using mortars, RPGs and AGS.
The enemy snaps back, but suffers losses.
Now the area is being processed by our armored vehicles using large-caliber guns.
16:43 Front-line soldier reports:
Kupyansk direction.
Kolmychikha is a positional player.
Novoselovka is a positionalist.
We rolled back from Tabaevka. We are trying to take industrial warehouses.
15:00 Front bird broadcasts:
LPR (area Svatovo, Kremennaya) 05.03
Our Ka-52 Alligator helicopters successfully operated without entering the enemy air defense coverage area.
14:28 Around 12.30 Moscow time stopped attempt by Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using aircraft-type UAVs against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Duty air defense systems destroyed a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Belgorod region.
14:01 Front-line soldier reports: the assault operation of the Russian Armed Forces in the settlement is coming to a close. Thorns.
13:34 Front-line soldier reports: The Russian Armed Forces carry out assault operations in Berdychi. The enemy throws everything he has to hold the NP... Abrams, Bradleys, Marines. Loses and goes again.
12:38 In the zone of a special military operation, military personnel of the “Eastern” group of forces accepted participation in early voting in the presidential elections of the Russian Federation.
Military personnel exercise their right to vote in accordance with the federal law “On the Election of the President of the Russian Federation.” For the military electorate, these elections are especially important, since in accordance with the Constitution of Russia the President is also the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
12:00 Telegram channel "Fisherman":
Orekhovsky sector: enemy counterattacks in Rabotino situation as of 11:00 March 5, 2024
– In the Zaporozhye direction, the enemy finally “came to his senses” after the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces at the end of February, which cost the Ukrainian Armed Forces the loss of part of the village of Rabotino and several strong points. Ukrainian formations have deployed reinforcements and are actively attacking.
– In the middle of the day, the enemy took offensive actions in the area of the school, which is one of the few more or less surviving buildings in the almost completely destroyed village. The Russian servicemen occupying it repelled the onslaught and held their position.
“On the western outskirts of the village there were clashes for 24 hours. Attempts to storm enemy strongholds in forest plantations at the Novoprokopovka-Verbovoe line also continue.
– In recent days, the enemy’s pressure on Rabotino and its environs continues to grow. Ukrainian formations are bringing into battle the units redeployed to the site, which are being staffed in Orekhovo and other populated areas.
– Another problem for Russian troops is attacks by FPV drones on supply and evacuation routes, which complicates the supply of captured positions and makes it difficult to consolidate on them. Therefore, in the coming days, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will most likely intensify attacks on Rabotino in order to force the Russian Armed Forces to withdraw from the lines occupied at the end of February.
11:34 Telegram-kanal «Fisherman":
South Donetsk direction: advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the east and south of Novomikhailovka situation as of 10:00 March 5, 2024
– In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction, Russian troops continue the assault on Novomikhailovka from two directions, and are also consolidating their positions in the populated area.
– Units of the 155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade of the Pacific Fleet, advancing from the east, as a result of the fighting, occupied seven more houses on Mira Street, reaching 13th Street.
“The soldiers of the 68th Army Corps coming from the south also achieved success, retaking the territory of the dairy farm. Previously, Russian troops had already taken this facility by storm, but were driven out of there during one of the enemy’s counterattacks.
– The Church of the Miracle of the Archangel Michael also remains under the control of the RF Armed Forces: although the area around it is under fire from high-rise buildings to the north-west, Russian military personnel managed to gain a foothold and repel the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The situation for the enemy in the populated area continues to deteriorate, but he has no plans to retreat from Novomikhailovka yet. The forces of the 79th Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and other formations are trying to cling to every house, and also use FPV drones to attack supply routes for units of Russian troops participating in the assault on the village.
10:59 Around 09:30 Moscow time suppressed an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using aircraft-type UAVs against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Duty air defense systems destroyed a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Kursk region.
10:34 Telegram channel “Fisherman":
Battle of Krasnogorovka: advance towards the railway situation by 8:00 March 5, 2024
– In the Donetsk direction, during the fighting, Russian troops were able to advance on the southern outskirts of Krasnogorovka and gain a foothold on Shkolnaya Street. At the moment, the fighting is taking place on March 8th Street.
– To the east of the city, units of the Russian Armed Forces occupied a forest belt, near the railway and went out onto Vatutina Street. This indicates that the tank attack from the Butovskaya-2 mine area, which took place a few days ago, was ultimately successful.
– At the moment, Russian units have established control over the roads from Geologicheskaya Street and across the field south of the railway track, which allows them to be used to transport forces and ammunition to forward positions. Also, the RF Armed Forces are assigned along the O0532 highway.
– In Georgievka, the situation remained covered in the “fog of war” for a long time due to the lack of objective evidence of control. However, it has now become known that Russian units, as a result of assault operations, reached Molodezhnaya Street in the central part of the village.
“Against the background of the advance of the Russian Armed Forces, there is a possibility that the Armed Forces of Ukraine may leave the northern part of the settlement along the Osikova River in order to level the front line.
However, holding these positions in the event of an assault will not be easy - Georgievka itself is located in a lowland, and the enemy still maintains control over the surrounding heights.
09:54 Criminal Kyiv regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- n.p. Kakhovka four rounds;
-- n.p. Alyosha five rounds;
-- n.p. Staraya Zburevka two rounds;
-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery five rounds;
-- n.p. Golaya Pristan four rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Peschanivka, n.p. Golaya Pristan, n.p. Kardashinka, Maslovka village, firing a total of 17 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
09:26 Telegram channel “WarGonzo":
Frontline report for the morning 03/05/2024
– In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Armed Forces continue to attack on the southern and southeastern outskirts of Rabotino. Artillery is actively working on both sides, and the settlement itself mainly continues to remain in the gray zone. Ukrainian positions in Orekhovo, Pyatikhatki, and Malaya Tokmachka are under attack. The artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine worked against Russian units in Zherebyanki, Kopany, Novoprokopovka and Verbovoy.
– On the Donetsk Front, active hostilities continue in the Novomikhailovka area, where the Russian Armed Forces are making advances. North of Orlovka there is also progress towards Tonenkoye. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are fiercely resisting in Georgievka and Krasnogorovka, holding positions due to the reserves that have arrived. But the counterattacks of the Ukrainians in the area of the settlement. Victory did not lead to success.
– In the Artemovsky (Bakhmutsky) direction, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, continue assault operations in the area of Kleshcheevka, Bogdanovka and Ivanovsky. In the first two cases, the LBS did not change significantly, but in Ivanovo, Russian troops managed to advance inside the village.
– In the Lugansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of long-range weapons, continue to advance at Yampolevka and Ternov. There are fierce battles in Tabaevka and Sinkovka. Ukrainian positions in Belogorovka, Torskoye, Nevsky, Berestovoy and Peschanoye are under attack.
08:54 Telegram channel “Fisherman":
Chronicle of a special military operation: events of March 02 – 04, 2024
– The Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to attack an oil depot in Feodosia with 38 drones. As a result, Russian troops shot down 36 drones, one UAV fell on the Tavrida highway, and the second hit a pipe on the territory of the base.
– In Velikaya Pisarevka, the target was the NSU training center, where militants from the RDK* were stationed. As a result of the arrival, a concentration of personnel totaling up to 40 people was hit.
– In Mirnograd (Dimitrov), on the territory of the temporarily occupied part of the DPR, the Harmony Lyceum came under attack. A building containing about 100 people was destroyed by a direct hit. At least half of the members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.
– Ukrainian formations do not stop attacks along the border of the Belgorod region. All targets were successfully shot down, without any damage or casualties.
“Meanwhile, heavy fighting is taking place in Belogorovka. Russian troops are intensively striking targets in the populated area and its surroundings. Russian troops repel attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the ruins of the industrial zone of the Popasnyansky water utility.
“Meanwhile, in the special operation zone, Russian troops continue to advance in several directions at once. In the Artemovsky (Bakhmutsky) direction, units of the Russian Armed Forces are conducting forays into the southwestern outskirts of Krasny, and fighting is taking place on Tereshkova Street.
– West of Avdievka, Russian troops continue their offensive, breaking through the enemy’s first line of defense. During fierce fighting, Russian troops completely occupied Orlovka and Tonenkoye.
“Russian Volunteer Corps” (RDK)* is an organization that is recognized as terrorist and is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation
. 08:10 Official summary Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC
A total of 17 armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC
One civilian was reported injured
Damaged: one residential building.
Eleven attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction,
Six attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Gorlovka direction.
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[REGNUM] The US Army uses fifth-generation F-35 fighters to conduct reconnaissance of Russian positions in the air defense zone. This statement was made by Singapore's Minister of Defense Ng Eng Hen. According to him, the aircraft are used to identify the positions of air defense systems of Russian troops in Ukraine.
“Most recently, the US used its F-35s to detect and identify Russian ground-based missile sites in Ukraine, and this information was shared with NATO countries,” Ng Eng Hen said. The Pentagon hastened to refute the minister’s words, noting that the US Army “does not use F-35 fighters in Ukraine.”
However, this does not in any way contradict the statement of the Singaporean military. American aircraft can be present at a significant distance from the combat zone, while at the same time remaining a de facto participant. It can be assumed that the Americans' allies simply let it slip.
Singapore's Ministry of Defense is a knowledgeable source on the F-35 development and production program.
Previously, the country's government decided to strengthen its defense potential by purchasing eight additional F-35A stealth fighters from the American corporation Lockheed Martin - in addition to the 12 F-35B purchased back in 2020.
The speech of the Secretary of Defense can be seen as an attempt to lobby for the rearmament of the army with modern American military equipment. In addition, Singapore is one of the non-NATO members of the American fifth-generation fighter program, along with Israel. Therefore, the Singaporean military can receive information about the operation of the aircraft directly from the United States.
USING UKRAINE FOR RECONNAISSANCE AGAINST RUSSIA
It is no secret that Ukraine has actually become a testing ground for various weapons produced by NATO countries. The United States could not miss the chance and not test the capabilities of its most modern aircraft, which is also actively exported.
In particular, the US military can test the stealth technologies used to produce the fighter and their interaction with the radars of Russian air defense systems, a retired officer and combat veteran noted in a commentary for Regnum.
He asked to remain anonymous.
“Russian air defense systems are the main threat to American aircraft. Not just for the US Air Force, but for its operators around the world. The states take this opportunity to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of their weapons, and at the same time, if possible, to show the “weakness” of our air defenses to potential buyers. This is unfair competition,” the publication’s interlocutor noted.
At the same time, Lockheed Martin, even at the development stage, positioned the F-35 fighter as “inconspicuous” for the radar stations of a potential enemy.
Stealth technologies were introduced into the design of the vehicle, and were also used to create a special coating, which, according to the plan, should make the fighter invisible to radar. In reality, airplanes do not always manage to remain invisible.
WHAT IS HE LOOKING FOR IN A DISTANT LAND?
For the Russian military, a meeting with American F-35 fighters will not be something fundamentally new. Aircraft of this model of the US Air Force are regularly used in Israel and Syria.
The Pentagon also uses fighter jets to patrol over the Baltic Sea and near the border between Russia and NATO countries.
On the eve of the Special Military Operation, the 388th and 419th aviation wings of the 34th Fighter Squadron of the US Air Force, armed with combat-ready F-35 fighters, were deployed to Europe.
“We are faced with a dynamically changing environment and the deployment of the F-35 on NATO's eastern flank strengthens our defensive posture and strengthens interoperability within the alliance,” said Gen. Jeff Harrigian, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Africa.
The authors of the specialized publication Air Force Times noted that the use of the F-35 in the coverage area of Russian air defense systems may allow for a better study of the aircraft’s capabilities.
It later became known that American fighters were stationed at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany. At the same time, the US Air Force command emphasized that the planes take off from the air bases “Amari” (Estonia), “Siauliai” (Lithuania) and “Fetesti” (Romania), that is, they operate at the “forward positions” of NATO.
THE GOAL IS PROVOCATION
It is unknown what exactly the Singaporean Defense Minister meant when he spoke of “identifying targets in Ukraine.” In theory, we can talk about the use of F-35 fighters near the border of Ukraine with Poland. However, most likely the Pentagon will use fighter jets in the Black Sea.
“Flights from Romanian territory towards Crimea are probably the most likely scenario. Any information is useful for them. Even just the reaction of our Air Force and Air Defense as such. They are provoking as best they can, studying the reaction, maybe waiting for our fighters to take off to intercept,” says a source from IA Regnum.
In this case, fighters can act as a primer, acting in tandem with electronic reconnaissance aircraft, AWACS aircraft and drones. Moreover, in recent years NATO has formed an aviation group operating in the western part of the Black Sea almost every day.
As of noon on March 5, there were three US Air Force aircraft off the coast of Romania: an RC-135W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft with the call sign JAKE-17, a Poseidon P-8 anti-submarine aircraft and a KC-135R refueling aircraft with the call sign HOBO21.
The scheme for using the F-35 may look like this: the fighter takes off from the territory of Romania and heads towards Crimea, thereby provoking a response from Russian troops on the peninsula. At the slightest threat, the fighter can immediately reverse course, refueling in the air if necessary.
Also, in the role of provocateur, the US Air Force regularly uses MQ-9 Reaper drones launched from air bases in Crete and Sicily. However, fighter jets have several advantages over drones. First, the F-35 can reach significantly higher speeds. Secondly, the F-35 is equipped with a powerful AN/APG-81 radar, which provides the pilot with information about ground, surface and air targets.
The technical capabilities of an active phased array radar (AFAR) make it possible to accurately identify targets in high resolution and at a long distance, so that the fighter can remain outside the air defense coverage area. Therefore, the F-35 acts not only as a decoy, but also as an independent reconnaissance unit.
However, for Russian air defense operators the presence of American fighters should not be a problem.
“What they are provoking is not news; they used fighters with powerful radar back in the Second World War in the Pacific. Both during the Cold War and in recent years. There are protocols for responding to such threats that make it possible to repel them without revealing anything. In general, this is more likely to be how Americans advertise their products. But they won't risk getting close enough to get significant data. The fighter is very expensive, the loss is not worth it,” summarizes the interlocutor of IA Regnum.
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Do they fly over Ukraine or Russia? Have they fired any weapons? Have they interfered in operations?
What's your point.
Or is this somehow different from Badgers and Backfires along the Aleutians.
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What's your point.
tl;dr: We are learning how to use F-35. It's the new thing and we need to play with it to see how best to use its capabilities.
Other than that, it's just more of the same - flying around the edges, sniffing whatever we can sniff. It's not like the old days where you could get really high* and blitz across the Soviet Union at Mach OMG.
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[REGNUM] In the coming weeks, one of the most influential and experienced American diplomats, whose role in shaping the anti-Russian course in the world is difficult to overestimate, will retire. We are talking about US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. In breaking the news, her boss, State Department chief Antony Blinken, in a statement, highlighted Nuland's contributions to confronting Russia in Ukraine, building a global coalition to ensure the "strategic defeat " of Moscow and "helping Ukraine approach the day when it can stand on its own two feet." - in democratic, economic and military relations."
“It is Victoria’s leadership in Ukraine that students and diplomats will study for many years to come,” emphasized the head of the American foreign policy department.
And there really is something to study: during a diplomatic career spanning more than 35 years, Nuland dealt with strategically important issues and had a direct impact on the entire system of international relations.
It so happened that Nuland’s life from a young age was closely connected with the Soviet direction, and subsequently with the Russian and Ukrainian ones. In the early 1980s, she worked for a couple of months as a counselor at the Young Guard pioneer camp in Odessa, where she came as an exchange student, and later as a translator on a Soviet fishing boat, and during those 8 months she not only learned the Russian language, but also learned to drink vodka.
Either this is just a coincidence, or the call of blood did its job: the diplomat’s grandfather came from the territory of modern Ukraine (Chernivtsi region), and his grandmother came from Belarus (Grodno region).
Nuland also had a small Asian chapter in her political career: 3 years after graduating from the Faculty of Public Policy at Brown University, in 1988, she went to Mongolia, but there she also dealt with issues of relations with the USSR. And then the USSR disappeared. In the turning point of 1991, she was awaiting assignment to the American Embassy in Moscow, where Victoria was to establish ties with the government of the first President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin.
Probably, the connections were established so successfully that just two years later Nuland was expected to be promoted. She was transferred to the central office of the State Department. As Deputy US Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, she oversaw the Russian direction, nuclear disarmament of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Then, from 1997–1999, she served as deputy director for former USSR affairs at the State Department.
With the advent of the new century, Nuland’s activities were not so closely connected with Russia: from 2003 to 2005, she was the US permanent representative to NATO, and in 2011 she became the press secretary of the State Department.
But still, the most striking episode of her career is connected with Ukraine.
In 2013, when she was appointed Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs, protests began in Kyiv. Activists demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych were not only supported by employees of the American embassy, Nuland regularly flew in from Washington, walked along the Maidan and handed out either cookies or pies there, which turned into a meme.
At the same time, the diplomat would later argue in an interview with CNN that the United States “definitely did not spend money to support the Maidan, it was a spontaneous movement,” although she admitted that since 1991, to support “the aspirations of the Ukrainian people, who want to have a strong, democratic government, which represents his interests,” sent about $5 billion.
True, the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, in an interview with CNN on February 1, 2015, openly stated that it was the United States that “mediated the transition of power in Ukraine.”
No matter how Nuland tried to disavow the involvement of the American authorities in inciting the coup in Ukraine, she was directly involved in the formation of the post-Maidan leadership of this post-Soviet republic, for which there is concrete evidence.
At the beginning of 2014, a recording of a conversation appeared on the Internet, which apparently took place after the 3rd round of negotiations between President Yanukovych and the opposition (January 24), in which Nuland discusses with the US Ambassador to Ukraine Jeffrey Pyatt who should join the new government : she lobbied for the candidacy of Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who later became prime minister, and proposed to “leave Vitali Klitschko and Oleg Tyagnibok outside.”
It was Nuland who was entrusted in 2016 to conduct a dialogue on the Ukrainian issue with Vladislav Surkov, who was then an assistant to the President of Russia, but the past 4 rounds of negotiations did not produce results.
With Donald Trump coming to power in the United States, there was, of course, no place for Nuland in his Republican administration. Nevertheless, she continued to work on Ukrainian topics “on a voluntary basis.” And the political resurrection was not long in coming - Democrat Joe Biden, who assumed the presidency in January 2021, offered her the post of Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
A little more than a year later, on February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation, and the United States had to become more active in the Ukrainian direction. Nuland’s experience was clearly indispensable here.
Why did Victoria decide to leave now, when Kyiv found itself in a very difficult situation, when it needed the support of the West and Washington more than ever?
“They won’t tell you the reason. But it is simple: the failure of the anti-Russian course of the Biden administration. Russophobia, proposed by Victoria Nuland as the main foreign policy concept of the United States, is dragging the Democrats to the bottom like a stone. What is there, it doesn’t let me tear myself away from him,” explained Russian Foreign Ministry official representative Maria Zakharova in her Telegram channel.
Indeed, Ukraine, no matter how trivial it may sound, has become a suitcase without a handle for the White House: they cannot say “sorry, we’ll move on on our own.” Moreover, Biden and many members of his team with their own hands turned Ukraine into anti-Russia. The United States can no longer support it “as long as it takes,” since Congress has not agreed on further funding for Kyiv for several months, and the share of those in society who believe that too much money is being spent on Ukraine is already growing. And all this on the eve of the presidential elections, in which the Democrats’ position is, to put it mildly, shaky.
That’s why the United States is gradually reducing its presence in Ukraine, shifting the entire burden of responsibility onto European countries, and Nuland decided to wash her hands of it and leave Biden to clean up what they did together in their time.
Zakharova: Nuland decided to resign due to the failure of the anti-Russian course Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland has decided to resign due to the failure of the anti-Russian course of the Joe Biden administration, official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova said on March 5 in the Telegram channel.
“They won’t tell you the reason. But it is simple - the failure of the anti-Russian course of the Baidan administration,” the diplomat noted.
Zakharova noted that Russophobia, proposed by Nuland as the main foreign policy concept of the United States, is dragging the Democrats to the bottom like a stone.
The Russian diplomat also posted a photo of the US Deputy Secretary of State praying and lighting candles in an Orthodox church. In this regard, Zakharova wrote that if Nuland suddenly wants to go to a monastery to atone for her sins, they will “put in a good word” for her.
As Regnum reported, earlier, on March 5, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland would leave her post in the coming weeks. He added that the diplomat herself notified him about this. Blinken did not give a specific date for her departure from post.
Nuland was the main American curator of Ukraine's anti-Russian course. Western media noted that Nuland’s appointment to the post of US Deputy Secretary of State could mean that Biden had chosen a course towards worsening relations with Russia. She also worked on policy issues regarding post-Soviet states under former US President Barack Obama and was Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.
Under the Russian readiness scheme, a military district comports to a front, a strategic formation, potentially numbering 250,000 soldiers and 300 aircraft.
[Regnum] Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on March 5 that the new military-administrative division, established by decree of the country's President Vladimir Putin, will improve the efficiency of troop control.
As the head of the Ministry of Defense emphasized, the creation of two new Leningrad and Moscow military districts occurred due to the growing threat from NATO.
“Against the backdrop of building up NATO’s military potential near the Russian borders, expanding the alliance through the entry of Finland, and in the future Sweden, we have taken steps to strengthen troop groups in the northwestern and western strategic directions,” Shoigu said at a thematic conference call with leadership of the Russian Armed Forces.
In accordance with the presidential decree, the corresponding territories were assigned to the districts, including new regions of the country, he specified. These measures will significantly improve the efficiency of troop control, Shoigu added.
“We will continue to improve the composition and structure of the armed forces in proportion to emerging threats to Russia’s military security,” the head of the Ministry of Defense concluded.
As Regnum reported, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on February 26 on the re-establishment of the Moscow and Leningrad military districts. The first, in addition to Moscow, included Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kostroma, Kursk, Lipetsk, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver, Tula and Yaroslavl regions; the second, in addition to St. Petersburg, includes the Republic of Karelia, the Komi Republic, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Leningrad, Murmansk, Novgorod and Pskov regions and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
As Igor Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine, stated in an interview with Regnum news agency, this step is necessary for the country and reflects the inequality of the Russian Armed Forces and NATO countries. According to the expert, the alliance’s general line of confrontation with the Russian Federation and the entry of Finland and Sweden into it led to Putin’s decision to return two military districts that existed previously - before 2010. Shoigu announced the need to create new strategic territorial associations of the Russian Armed Forces in the context of NATO expansion back in December 2022.
Sweden and Finland submitted applications to join NATO in May of the same year, and soon Finland was officially accepted into the alliance, and the decision on Sweden’s entry into the bloc was delayed due to the positions of Turkey and Hungary, which later agreed on entry.
Putin noted in December 2023 that the West does not give up aggressive goals, so NATO’s activity has increased and significant forces have been transferred from the United States to Russia’s borders. And the “drawing” of Finland and Sweden into NATO means the next stage in the approach of the military bloc to the borders of the Russian Federation, the head of state emphasized.
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[Regnum] A militant of the nationalist group “Aidar” (an extremist and terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited) Sergei Skidan, who fought in the DPR, was sentenced to 18 years in a maximum security colony. This decision was made by the Southern District Military Court on March 5.
As the court's press service clarified, he was found guilty of participation in a terrorist organization and forcible seizure or retention of power. The criminal case against the militant was investigated under three articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
It was established that on May 7, 2020, Skidan entered into a contract for military service in the terrorist organization Aidar. From the beginning of May to the beginning of June 2020, the serviceman underwent special training, after which he arrived at an observation post near the village of Starognatovka in the Volnovakha region of the DPR. Here he put into practice the skills acquired during his studies.
As Regnum reported, on February 2, a court in the DPR sentenced Azov militant Renat Aliyev to life imprisonment for the murders of civilians in Mariupol committed in March 2022. Thus, as follows from the court materials, he ordered his subordinate to kill a man and a woman who did not participate in the military conflict. Later, Aliyev killed another civilian on the street, shooting him in the head with a machine gun.
On February 21, the Supreme Court of the DPR convicted in absentia a soldier of the Ukrainian nationalist Azov battalion, who gave the order to shell civilian infrastructure. The court found senior sergeant Roman Shebanov guilty of cruelty to the civilian population, attempted murder of two or more persons and deliberate damage to someone else's property in a generally dangerous manner. Shebanov was sentenced to 28 years in prison in a maximum security colony.
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[Regnum] A Russian supersonic Su-27 was scrambling over the Black Sea to escort an early warning and control aircraft (AWACS) and two French Air Force fighter jets approaching the country's border, the Defense Ministry said on March 5.
According to the department, airspace control systems detected three targets moving towards the Russian state border. In order to prevent its violation, an Aerospace Forces fighter was sent to them.
“The crew of the Russian fighter identified the air targets as an E-3F long-range radar detection and control aircraft (AWACS) and two Rafale-S multirole fighters of the French Air Force,” TASS quoted the report as saying.
The department noted that foreign aircraft, when the Su-27 approached them, turned around and flew away from the airspace over the Black Sea.
As Regnum reported, in October 2023, two Russian Su-27s prevented three British Air Force aircraft from violating the border over the Black Sea. Two Typhoon multirole fighters and an RC-135 electronic reconnaissance and electronic warfare aircraft were approaching the border. As the Russian fighters approached, the British planes turned around.
Also in October, a Norwegian Poseidon patrol aircraft approached the Russian border over the Barents Sea. A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet went to intercept him. The foreign aircraft then flew in the opposite direction.
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[Regnum] Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with representatives of the agro-industrial complex in the Stavropol region, announced a possible increase in grain exports from Russia in the 2023-2024 agricultural year to 65 million tons.
“We exported grains, in my opinion, in the last season of 2022-2023, about 53.5 million tons, and here it will be, in 2023-2024, up to 65 million tons, something like this,” said the head of state.
Putin noted the special role of logistics in this issue, since the volumes are very large.
As Regnum reported, Putin arrived in Stavropol on March 5. The President visited the local greenhouse complex and talked with its workers, and also took part in the opening of new production facilities in Mordovia, Leningrad and Belgorod regions via video link. Also in Stavropol, the head of state is scheduled to meet with Governor Vladimir Vladimirov.
During a meeting with workers of the Solnechny Dar greenhouse complex, Putin called for increasing tomato production so as “not to ask friends.” The Russian leader noted that an increase in consumption and supply on the market is necessary, then a situation will never arise in which it is urgently necessary to ask for help.
During a meeting with representatives of the agro-industrial complex, responding to one of the interlocutors, the head of state noted that competitors are opposing the development of not only the country’s agricultural sector, but in all areas where Russia is beginning to grow, therefore it is necessary to support domestic producers.
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[Regnum] The Russian armed forces are constantly changing tactics during special operations, now they have switched to constant powerful offensive actions, retired General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergei Krivonos said on March 5 on the Ukrainian TV channel “Direct”.
He complained that the Russian army organized reconnaissance very well and identified the weak points of Ukrainian positions. He also said that the Russian Armed Forces are actively using drones and mortars, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces have an acute shortage of ammunition.
“They know our junctions between military units, they are trying to move forward,” he described the actions of the Russian army.
As Regnum reported, on March 5, the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, said that the Russian army, after the liberation of Avdievka, continues to advance in a westerly direction. The Minister of Defense said that thanks to powerful attacks on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ukrainian units were unable to create a defensive line at the Petrovskoye-Lastochkino-Severnoye line.
Also on March 5, military correspondent Chingis Dambiev published a video of the destruction of the third Abrams tank in the Avdeevka direction. The equipment was knocked out near the village of Berdychi by the crew of the anti-tank missile system of the 24th Separate Guards Special Forces Brigade of the Russian army. The fire was adjusted using a drone by soldiers of the 30th Motorized Rifle Brigade.
To remind, Kolomoisky was one of the curators for Azov, a Ukrainian militia which attacked Russians in southeastern Ukraine.
[ColonelCassad] A Russian court has recovered the assets of the Ukronazi oligarch Benny Kolomoisky for state income - real estate in Moscow, 500 land plots in Russia worth ₽6 billion and the value of shares in companies worth ₽5.1 billion.
The court in Adygea, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, seized almost 500 agricultural land plots worth more than ₽6 billion, buildings and six premises in the center of Moscow, and in addition, 100% shares in the Yuzhgazenerji and Catering - South companies, the value of which exceeds ₽5.1 billion.
Benya, what about face? Don’t you already want “$10,000 for a Muscovite”?
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[Regnum] Russian foreign institutions especially felt the “electronic war” from the West amid preparations for the country’s presidential elections abroad. This was stated by Ambassador at Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Gennady Askaldovich at a meeting of the Federation Council commission on protecting state sovereignty and preventing interference in the internal affairs of Russia.
“The West is preparing and is already carrying out massive cyber attacks on the eve of the presidential elections, but the electoral system is showing resilience,” he said.
Askaldovich recalled that during the last municipal elections in 2023, according to the Central Election Commission, about 170 thousand cyber attacks were repelled in one day. The ambassador noted that the electoral system has proven to be resistant to external cyber influence, but this also shows how great the pressure is on Russia.
As Regnum reported, on February 14, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the number of calls from outside to disrupt the voting in the Russian presidential election has increased. A number of European countries and the United States have still not responded to the Russian side’s request for assistance in ensuring security, the diplomat added.
In February, Zakharova also said that Russia would harshly suppress any attempts by Western states to interfere in the elections. As the Foreign Ministry representative clarified, the West will use social networks and platforms to influence the process.
The Russian presidential elections will take place from March 15 to 17, 2024. Voters from the LPR, DPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions are taking part in voting in the presidential elections for the first time. The Central Election Commission registered Leonid Slutsky (LDPR), Nikolai Kharitonov (Communist Party of the Russian Federation), Vladislav Davankov (New People) and self-nominated candidate Vladimir Putin as candidates for the presidential elections. In support of Putin as a candidate, they collected 10 times more signatures than required by law.
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[Chernovec] Russian Foreign Ministry: East Germany was denazified at one time, but Western Germany was not. It became an oasis for the preservation of Nazi ideology. Germany is ruled by neo-Nazis.
Commenting on a scandalous audio recording in which senior Bundeswehr officers discussed possible attacks on the Crimean Bridge with Taurus missiles, Zakharova called the relevant topic “the issue of the tragedy of German society, which is controlled by these neo-Nazis.”
"And these are, of course, neo-Nazis, 100%. Just look at [German Foreign Minister] Annalena Bärbock, who is the granddaughter of a Nazi, and who says she is proud of her grandfather. Look at how many people within the German government are in one way or another associated with Nazi past of their ancestors. And why? For one simple reason. East Germany, which was in the zone of influence of the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact, was indeed denazified. And West Germany, unfortunately, became an oasis for preserving not only these most immediate criminals who were not brought to justice, but also the ideology itself. That is why now we see the reincarnation of Nazism and fascism," the diplomat noted.
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The Germans are idiots. They will never see such a Germanophile as Putin at the helm of Russia. They wasted such a chance for their country.
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Come on now. German Nazis weren't that bad. At least they didn't start WW2. That was Poland as your Supreme Leader pointed out.
Yeah, that statement about Poland was twisted. But one thing is certain, it wasn't the Russians who started that war, it was the Russians who finished it. Now they look like they're about to finish another war in Ukraine. You should be careful not to start another one. Americans are not obligated to come to your defense if you're the ones who start it.
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I would have thought that Russia started the war against Ukraine.
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"But one thing is certain, it wasn't the Russians who started that war"
Actually the Soviet Union enabled that war with the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. It attacked Poland a few weeks later than the Germans. It then attacked Finland. Until July 1941 it provided Germany with everything it needed.
Actually Germany could not have started WW2 without Soviet help.
And I'm quite surprised that you'd copy the Russian narrative about "starting a war against Russia". It's NATO which is almost begging Germany to supply Ukraine with Taurus cruises missiles.
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