[JPost] The Kremlin will mobilize up to 500,000 Russians for a spring offensive, Ukrainian Defense Ministry representatives predicted on Friday.
Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Vadym Skibitskyi told The Guardian that it was expected that around January 15 conscription would begin and that it would take Russian forces around two months to organize its formations.
While Skibitskyi said the mobilization could include 300,000 on the lower end, both he and Ukrainian intelligence representative Andriy Chernyak said that up to 500,000 people could be mobilized.
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/08/2023 08:26 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[5 views]
Top|| File under: Commies
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Konstantin Evstafiev
[REGNUM] The Estonian authorities called on local deputies to agree to the demolition of another "portion" of Soviet monuments. But even if they try to disagree, or at least try to delay this process, their opinion will simply cease to be taken into account - there have already been precedents. Continued on Page 49
#1
Wiki: The Soviet Narva Offensive (July 1944) led to the capture of the city after the German troops retreated to their prepared Tannenberg Defence Line in the Sinimäed Hills, 16 kilometres from Narva. In the ensuing Battle of Tannenberg Line, the German army group held its ground. Stalin's main strategic goal—a quick recovery of Estonia as a base for air and seaborne attacks against Finland and an invasion of East Prussia—was not achieved. As a result of the tough defence of the German forces, the Soviet war effort in the Baltic Sea region was hampered for seven and a half months.[10]
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] There are dead and injured civilians.
Iryna Gamalii
Last day , the Russian army shelled seven regions of Ukraine.
This is stated in the overview of the regional military administrations on the situation in the regions of Ukraine as of 9:00 a.m. on January 7.
In the Sumy region , two artillery shells flew over the Shalyginsk community over the past day. No consequences.
In Zaporizhzhya Oblast , the enemy shelled civilian infrastructure in the area of the settlements of Gulyaipole, Plavni, Kamianske, Stepove, Pavlivka, Dorozhnyanka, Shcherbaki, Poltavka, Novoandriivka, Olhivske, Malynivka, Lugivske , Tsvitkovo, Zaliznychne, Mali Shcherbaki, Stepnohirsk. 13 reports were received about the destruction of houses (apartments) of citizens and infrastructure objects as a result of shelling of the Russian Federation.
In the Kharkiv region , the Russians shelled Kupyansk and Vovchansk , the village of Dvorichna, the villages of Krasne, Strelecha, Zarichne, Kislivka, Kotlyarivka and other border settlements of the Kupyansk, Chuguyiv and Kharkiv districts of the region. As a result of the shelling, residential buildings and commercial buildings were damaged. There were no casualties or damage.
In the Luhansk region , during the so-called "Christmas truce" declared by the Russians, the Russians themselves went on the attack in the districts of Stelmakhivka, Makiivka, Dibrova, and Bilogorivka. On the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions, the enemy shelled Stelmakhivka, Makiivka, Ploshanka and Dibrova.
In the Donetsk region during the night, active shelling of the defense line around Avdiivka. Information on wounded civilians is being clarified. Also at night - shelling of positions and neighborhoods of Toretska and Marinska communities with heavy weapons and small arms. The situation is tense, but under control.
Last day there was shelling of Kurakhovo and the village of Ostrivske of the Kurakhiv community. In Kurakhovo, two direct hits hit two high-rise buildings , the infectious department of the Kurakhiv hospital (21 patients were being treated there; a hospital employee was injured), the surrounding high-rise buildings and six private houses were partially damaged.
Private houses, garages, and private cars were damaged in Ostrivske. During the day, isolated shelling of the villages of Rozdolivka and Paraskoviivka of the Soledar community.
Mass shelling of Bakhmut - information was received that five private houses were damaged, five civilians were injured (including one volunteer), two people died - a resident of Bakhmut and a resident of Krasna Gora village. Yesterday afternoon, the village of Predtechine was shelled. Private houses were damaged, a woman was injured.
As reported by the police of the Donetsk region, the enemy directed five S-300 missiles at Kramatorsk. 15 private houses and company premises were destroyed. There was no information about the victims.
In the Mykolaiv region yesterday , the enemy carried out artillery strikes on the water area of the Ochakiv community . There are no casualties.
In the Kherson region, the enemy continues shelling along the right bank of the Dnipro River, in particular, the civilian infrastructure of the settlements of Chornobayivka, Berislav, Zolota Balka, Antonivka, and Kherson has been hit.
Yesterday, the enemy hit the fire station in Kherson with artillery. One rescuer died, four others were injured. They were admitted to the hospital, doctors are providing the necessary assistance. The Russians also attacked a residential building next to the fire department.
#1
Soledar and Bakhmut being the focus of Russian attention one wonders. When losing Ukraine says unimportant. When winning strategic importance. Why, perhaps many reasons. Salt mines and Gypsum mines have a long history in this part of the world. 200-300 feet underground going hundreds of miles. Romanians have these tunnels also. Many things stored even WW1 materials. Currently tanks and personnel also. So perhaps Russia knows the game. You will never hear this or see this reported in western media.
#2
Saw this today; "SLANIC SALT MINE (Salina Unirea), Slănic, Prahova, Romania
Slănic mine is an old salt mine, located in Slănic, Prahova County, Romania, just 100 km north of Bucharest, situated between the valley of Prahova and that of Teleajen, at about 44 km of Ploiesti, at 400 meters of altitude.
The salt mine is closed for extraction purposes, but is open for visitors, featuring a microclimate with natural air-conditioning and constant temperature and atmospheric pressure throughout the year. It is made up of two levels, named Unirea and Mihai.
The mine is composed of 14 chambers with trapezoidal profiles, having a 10 m opening to the ceiling and 32 m to the ground, a height of 54 m, and a wall inclination angle of 60 degrees. The shore difference between the surface and the mining base is 208 m. It was transformed into a sanatorium for the treatment of pulmonary diseases in a saline air microclimate. Many of the visitors come for its supposed healing effects due to the purity of the air.
The Unirea mine chamber - notice the trapezoidal profile of the chamber and the wooden balcony at the top.
According to the documents, for more than 300 years represented an important salt extraction center"
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 21:44 Several defense lines with a length of about 1,000 km were built around the capital, said the commander of the Kiev Defense Forces Oleksandr Pavlyuk: “At the moment we have enough forces and means. everything is controlled. People are constantly training. Our advantage is the knowledge of the area, its preparation." According to him, the Russians are now preparing another powerful attack from the mobilized military, and the enemy should not be underestimated.
21:37 In the Taurida direction, the Russians no longer have such a thing as a "deep rear", said Brigadier General Alexander Tarnavsky, commander of the Tavria operational-strategic grouping of troops: "We successfully carried out counter-offensive operations in the Kharkov and Kherson directions thanks to a successful combination of fire and maneuver. In the same way, now we control all attempts by the occupying forces to organize an effective defense and create conditions for active operations.Ukrainian defenders are doing everything to destroy the maximum number of forces and means of the invaders, even during the relative stability of our positions.The more we destroy them now, the less will be work in the course of the final liberation of Ukraine from the invaders".
20:36 The UN Security Council will hold a meeting on Ukraine next Friday, January 13, the press service of the UN Security Council reports. This will be a meeting within the framework of the "Maintaining peace and security in Ukraine" program. What topics are planned to be discussed at the meeting of the Security Council is still unknown.
20:19 Zelensky called today "historic for Ukraine, for the spiritual independence of our people": "Today I was glad to see how many people, how many of our soldiers came to worship at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Church - in that holy place, which is one from the origins of the Ukrainian cultural tradition. It is very important that a sincere prayer for Ukraine has been and will continue to be heard in the Lavra today and that no one else will make Ukrainian a stranger in the Lavra. Ukrainian independence must be strong in all its elements and will be so. Always."
20:15 Zelensky said in an evening video message that a regular meeting of the National Security and Defense Council was held today, at which, in particular, the Council's general work plan for the current year was approved: "It will definitely be no less powerful than in previous years, and the main priority is the security of our independence, the strengthening of our ability to defend ourselves - by all necessary steps, by all means that will work.
According to the president, today's sanctions list against many Russian citizens and persons associated with it is an "intermediate result", and in the future there will be further decisions on sanctions against such persons. "Everyone whose voice sounds in unison with the roar of Russian artillery will be isolated from the civilized world," Zelensky stressed.
"Today the world was once again able to see how false any words sounding from Moscow at any level are. They said something about an alleged ceasefire ... But the reality is Russian shells that again hit Bakhmut and other Ukrainian positions," - noted the head of state.
18:29 Despite the announced "ceasefire", the Russians continue to fire at the positions of Ukrainian units from tanks, mortars and cannon artillery. During the day, the enemy launched an air strike and made seven attacks from multiple launch rocket systems. The enemy is concentrating its efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdeevsky and Liman directions and is trying to improve the tactical situation in the Kupyansky direction. On Novopavlovsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson - continues to conduct active defense at previously occupied lines, the General Staff said in an evening summary .
In Melitopol and Pryazovsky, Zaporozhye region, the invaders stopped the broadcasting of all Ukrainian TV channels, only Russian television is broadcast.
17:58 On the evening of January 6, near Happiness in the Lugansk region, partisans destroyed the railway track of the Luhansk-Lantratovka message using an improvised explosive device, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. It has been preliminary established that this railway connection is used by the Russians for the transportation of military equipment, personnel and ammunition. In addition, they export Ukrainian grain back to the territory of the Russian Federation. Russian media wrote that more than 1,000 tons of grain were taken out of the Starobelsky elevator alone.
17:36 Zelensky put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council on sanctions against Russian and some Ukrainian cultural figures. The list includes 119 people, including TV presenter Zhanna Badoeva, football player Anatoly Timoshchuk, rapper Basta, Irina Allegrova, Dima Bilan, Mikhail Galustyan, Larisa Dolina, Philip Kirkorov, Sergey Lazarev, Dmitry Kiselev, Evgeny Petrosyan, Margarita Simonyan and others.
16:39 Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that Warsaw would not transfer Leopard tanks to Ukraine without a corresponding decision from the allies: "We ourselves do not intend to transfer our tanks yet. We ourselves, like Poland, without a broad coalition, we are not going to transfer."
15:35 Soledar and Bakhmut remain under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said the speaker of the Eastern Group of Forces Sergei Cherevaty. According to him, there are fierce battles for the cities. Russian statements about the capture of Soledar are fake.
14:57 In Russia, on January 15, additional mobilization may be announced, Andriy Chernyak, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said in a comment to t-online. According to him, up to 500 thousand people will be mobilized in the RF Armed Forces. This time the mobilization will also take place in major cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg.
14:24 In the Zaporozhye region, the son of Kadyrov's representative has been eliminated. According to the speaker of the Odessa OVA Serhiy Bratchuk, 34-year-old Dzhambulat Zauraev fought in Ukraine as a volunteer in the Kadyrov's troops. The father confirmed the death of his son "during a special operation."
13:48 According to the Donetsk regional prosecutor's office, on January 6, as a result of Russian shelling of Bakhmut and the Bakhmut district, two people were killed, another 13 received mine-explosive injuries and shrapnel wounds.
13:12 The State Emergency Service has created an interactive map of explosive areas, which allows you to make sure that the route is safe. Rescuers urge to use it first, and not navigators or their own intuition.
12:16 The next meeting of the contact group on Ukraine's defense in the Ramstein format will take place on January 20, the German Defense Ministry said.
11:39 In Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk region, air defense forces destroyed a Russian drone, Mayor Andrey Belousov said. According to him, there were no casualties, but there was minor damage.
11:34 Despite a unilateral "ceasefire" announced by Russia, allegedly in connection with Christmas, the Russian military continued to fight, said Laura Cooper, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasian Affairs. According to her, Russian troops need a respite and rearmament, but the "truce" declared by Russia is not long enough to bring this to life.
"Again, this is Putin's statement, which we should take with a certain amount of skepticism. This is the same person who said he would not invade Ukraine," Cooper added.
11:27 As of January 7, due to the day off and at the same time a holiday in the morning, electricity consumption in Ukraine is lower than the day before, even with a significant drop in temperature. But during the day, due to increased cooling, an increase in consumption is predicted, Ukrenergo reported. Therefore, to ensure a balance in the energy system, limits have been brought to the regions, which are in effect from 10:00 to 23:00.
10:35 British intelligence writes that the area around the Kremennaya Luhansk region has been one of the places of the most fierce hostilities for several weeks now. In the past three weeks, the fighting has been mainly in the wooded area to the west of the city. Since the coniferous forest provides some cover from aerial observation even in winter, both sides are likely to struggle to accurately control their artillery fire. As is typical for operations in the forest, the fighting is mostly infantry combat, often at short distances, analysts say.
According to intelligence, the Russian command most likely regards the pressure around Kremennaya as a threat to the right flank of its Bakhmut direction. It is this, in their opinion, that is the key to ensuring any future offensive to occupy the rest of the Donetsk region.
09:53 Metropolitan Epiphany's Christmas service is taking place in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra . This is the first service held by the OCU on the territory of the Lavra. Previously, only the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate conducted worship in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
09:47 300 children from the Luhansk and Donetsk regions were delivered to Moscow "for treatment". According to the Luhansk OVA, mobile teams of Russian doctors conducted medical examinations of children in almost every city in the occupied region in the autumn. In places, even teachers in schools collected money from children for the opportunity to be examined. As a result, 300 children were sent to Moscow hospitals for "treatment and rehabilitation." Before the arrival of the occupiers, the children and parents were not even aware of their "serious condition," the OVA notes.
Kidnapping Ukrainian children again?
09:11 In the Kherson region over the past day due to Russian shelling, one person was killed - a rescuer. Another seven local residents were injured, said the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich.
09:06 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two civilians were killed - in Bakhmut and Krasnaya Gora. Seven more people were injured in the region, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
08:43 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy as of the morning of January 7.
personnel - about 110,740 (+490) people liquidated,
tanks - 3066 (+2),
armored combat vehicles - 6125 (+1),
artillery systems - 2062 (+3),
MLRS - 431 (+0),
air defense systems - 217 (+2),
aircraft - 285 (+0),
helicopters - 272 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1844 (+0),
cruise missiles - 723 (+0),
ships/boats - 16 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 4798 (+1),
special equipment - 182 (+0).
08:18 The main efforts of the enemy are focusing on attempts to completely capture the Donetsk region within the administrative border. Conducts offensive operations in the Bakhmut direction, the General Staff said in the morning summary .
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhivka, Makeevka, Dibrova and Belogorivka of the Lugansk region and Ozaryanovka, Soledar, Krasnaya Gora, Podgorodnoye, Bakhmut, Kleschievka, Sol, Pervomayskoye, Maryinka and Pobeda of the Donetsk region.
In the occupied Energodar, Zaporozhye region, the Russians forced about 3,000 ZNPP workers to obtain Russian passports. Threatening entrepreneurs with fines and seizure of property, the Ukrainian hryvnia was withdrawn from circulation in the city. The number of residential premises seized by the occupiers and abandoned by internally displaced persons has significantly increased.
Due to the failure to fulfill the plan for recruiting volunteers for the territorial defense forces in the Belgorod region, the local police were involved in the recruiting campaign. Employees go around apartments and houses, conduct a census of the male population of military age and talk about popularizing the service.
07:22 Finland can provide Ukraine with Leopard 2 battle tanks, subject to the adoption of an appropriate decision in Europe, said the chairman of the Defense Committee Antti Hakkyanen: "If Europe starts to give tanks to Ukraine even an inch more, Finland should be involved. Of course, with our small contribution, because our own defense capability is always a priority for us as a border country with Russia."
06:10 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) writes that Putin's idea of a "Christmas truce" has increased dissatisfaction with the Russian leader and caused a flurry of criticism. In particular, Igor Girkin called Putin's decision "a bold and decisive step towards the defeat and surrender" of the Russian troops. Other well-known military bloggers have also used Putin's words about the "truce" to further criticize the Kremlin for waging the war.
02:38 "Governor" of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev said that air defense forces shot down a UAV over the Northern Pier.
00:29 Future Russian conscripts are likely to lead an offensive in the Donetsk, Kharkiv and, possibly, Zaporozhye regions, Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the GUR, told The Guardian. At the same time, he added that they would have to defend themselves in the Crimea and Kherson region. Skibitsky believes that the next 6-8 months is the last push: "If Russia loses this time, then Putin will collapse."
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Elena Karaeva
[RIA] Few doubted that Moscow's proposed 36-hour Christmas truce would be exclusively one-sided. But practically no one, probably, could even imagine what kind of reaction this initiative, merciful and generous, would cause there and among those who self-appointed defenders of goodness and justice.
Kiev immediately - repeatedly and loudly, so that everyone was already aware of it - rejected the truce. Official London said that the decision of the Russian commander-in-chief, in the words of the Foreign Office, "will not bring the prospects of peace closer."
The State Department did not like the Russian initiative either, which, of course, Brussels could not lag behind, saying (and this is really a pearl) that "it does not trust a truce declared unilaterally." The words about the distrust that pan-European diplomacy, which has lied about in all respects, have no doubt, will definitely go down in history.
The reaction of our foreign policy opponents to an absolutely natural gesture, to an absolutely natural mercy, like a litmus test, showed not only all the gloomy flaws of the Western collective unconscious, but, on the other hand, showed us, all of us, everything with which and with whom Russia has to fight today.
A world that still imagines itself to be the navel of the earth, believing that everything and everything is spinning to satisfy its wishes, and, as a maximum, after satisfying these wishes, allowing you to enter your servants' room - well, so that it could be polished one more time, so be it shoes - I forgot that human civilization (regardless of geography) rests on a completely different foundation. That a society that supports civilizational ideals lives according to completely different laws and principles. This is not about volumes of legal regulations, but about everyday actions and feelings. This is mercy. This is courage. This is solidarity. And that's empathy.
Russia has committed an act, behind which there is strength and conviction in the rightness. The West responded with words in which fear is mixed with confusion, no matter how polished soulless formulations try to hide it.
Yes, soulless. The ones without a soul. Because only heartlessness and emptiness can push on the day when believers, as, by the way, non-believers too, want to celebrate a holiday that is significant for themselves and for their families, to the complete depreciation of these desires. Because there are some Orthodox people there, and even living according to some kind of calendar of their own, why worry about them?
Those who are without a soul put forward a counter initiative. And also before Christmas. Paris intends to drive light wheeled tanks to Kiev, which, however, would have to be disposed of anyway, since all the terms of use have expired, and the United States and Germany turned out to be less stingy - but the economy there is more powerful, like the military-industrial complex. Washington will supply the Bradley BMP, Berlin will give the Patriot battery from the royal shoulder.
In fact, this is precisely the answer to the Russian unilateral 36-hour ceasefire. Not the smirks of diplomats, but the cynical move of politicians, which leads not to the "prospects for peace", but to the prospect of the death of those and where, whom and where the West, in his words, "supports in the struggle for freedom and, of course, democracy."
The West, having lied and living in its own mythology, having lost all ties with reality, not only didn’t want to, it couldn’t understand why the Russians were introducing a unilateral ceasefire. The West has existed in the conditions of a war of all against all for so long that there, on both sides of the Atlantic, they cannot even figure out how it is so: to take it and say that we will not fire at the entire line of contact for 36 hours.
On the day, and this must be emphasized after all, a great religious holiday.
Since on the days of major religious holidays, as well as on the days preceding them, in Europe - in particular, in France - the situation, on the contrary, is so tense that religious institutions (cathedrals, for example, or synagogues) are guarded by special police and gendarmerie units. As, for example, it was at the past Hanukkah and Christmas. This is what it looks like today in France, where regular birds of political correctness and public consent sing about tolerance around the clock. Consensus, so to speak.
In peacetime, in a state of all freedoms, the right of believers to quietly attend Christmas and Hanukkah services had to be protected by policemen and gendarmes armed to the teeth. Yes, yes, we are aware of the threat of terrorism, but the problem is much deeper than the desire of fanatics to destroy those who otherwise live and believe.
The very feelings of believers (of all religious denominations), which are now protected by law in Russia (and an article in the Criminal Code), are insulted so regularly in Europe that society has long forgotten what respect for faith is in principle.
The fire that almost destroyed Notre Dame in Paris did not arise from malicious intent, but because those who repaired the famous and precious oak formwork were impatient to smoke on the rafters. An outstanding cigarette butt (and this is the main version of the investigation still ongoing) led to the fact that the whole world was watching, sticking to the screens. To tragedy, when one of the main shrines of Catholicism turned into ruins. And - as a symbol of pain for everyone - a collapsed spire. which needed to be restored. And here begins a different story. About how all the projects were supervised by the Elysee Palace.
About how the then Minister of Culture, during a meeting with Brigitte Macron, found out that the presidential couple had opted for an architectural solution that suggested that the outline of a possible new spire left no doubt that it was a phallus directed upwards. And at the base of the spire-phallus are two testicles. Also golden in color. Roslyn Bashlot (namely, she was then in charge of the French Ministry of Culture) says that breaking through the wall with her head in order to get the project to restore the old spire approved came out to be a big political penny, since the attitude towards her at the highest level of power has changed radically.
People who treat their own shrine and their own memory in the way that practically the entire European establishment does, of course, cannot understand and will never understand, firstly, why the Russians, as one, came to the defense of everything that is dear to them. Therefore, in the eyes of Europeans, we behave like savages. And like barbarians. Secondly, the Europeans do not understand and will never understand that strength is by no means in the number of various Bradleys and Patriots set up to kill and attack. On us.
Our strength is in generosity. Primarily. Our strength is in mercy. Our strength lies in the fact that even during the battle there are ideals according to which on the day when the birth is celebrated, we do not want to kill.
Our strength lies in the fact that even at the time of the special operation, we all remain human beings.
We also understand that religion supports those who find it very difficult today. That faith helps bring victory closer. That courage is not at all in puffing out the cheeks and not in a deliberately heavy look, but in the end to adequately cope with the burden of the choice made. Choice in favor of the ideals of good. And true freedom, and not the one in which the church is guarded by a police squad.
Russia, albeit slowly, gradually, but calmly and confidently, is building an era of mercy. The one that is embedded not only in the Gospel, but also in politics. Therefore, in fact, on Christmas Eve and Christmas Russia said: in these 36 hours there will be a truce, no matter what anyone says or thinks. Small world. Short. Peace to the incoming!
#1
The North Vietnamese taught us that 'truce' is when they extracted units about to be hammered, resupply and rearm those which are not for the next push.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 18:39 Sending Western weapons and military equipment to Kyiv leads to a greater escalation, and the German population does not support an increase in supplies, they wrote inTwitterBundestag member from the Left Party Sarah Wagenknecht and chairman of the Alternative for Germany party Alisa Weidel. 17:17 An air alert was announced in the Poltava, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk regions of Ukraine and the part of the Zaporozhye region controlled by Kyiv, testifydataonline maps of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.
15:56 Statement by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant-General Konashenkov I.E. according to the situation on 01/07/2023.
Over the past day, an attack by units of the 14th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was repelled in the Kupyansk direction, more than 20 Ukrainian servicemen, a tank, a 122mm Grad MLRS and two cars were destroyed.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, an attack by two assault groups of the 80th and 95th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was repulsed, the enemy's losses amounted to more than 30 servicemen.
In the Donetsk direction, an attempt by units of the 110th and 79th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack Russian positions was thwarted, the losses of the enemy as a result of return fire amounted to 50 Ukrainian servicemen.
A counterattack by units of the 108th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was thwarted in the South-Donetsk direction, more than 20 Ukrainian servicemen and two D-30 howitzers were killed.
During the day, four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by means of air defense in the areas of the settlements of Ilchenkovo and Genichesk.
14:43 An air raid alert has been announced in the Kharkiv, Poltava and Dnepropetrovsk regions of Ukraine.
12:26 Destruction in Artemovsk.
The most intense fighting in the citygoin the industrial zone in the east of the city and on the southeastern outskirts.
Fighting also continues on the outskirts of Podgorodny and in Experimental.
11:54 Loading corpses VSUshnikov in Artemovsk. We have to ram into the pickup truck.
10:27 T-90M in zone SVO.
10:19 In Sevastopol, they said that a Ukrainian drone was shot down over the city at night.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 18:10 Investigative Committee of Russia establishes the circumstances of the shelling of the settlements of the DPR by the armed formations of Ukraine
As a result of the shelling of Ukrainian armed formations with the use of MLRS in Gorlovka, a civilian was wounded in a residential area.
In addition, the buildings of branch No. 16 of the Centralized Library System, as well as an apartment building, were damaged.
During the shelling of the VFU of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, a woman was injured.
The investigation will give the specified facts a criminal-legal assessment.
17:15 Information about the consequences of enemy shelling of the city of Donetsk continues to arrive. In the Petrovsky district at 14:00, one of the houses of the private sector on the street was damaged. Leninopolskaya. The glazing of the windows was broken, the garage, car, outbuildings were beaten with fragments.
16:28 Soldiers of the 488th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the western group of troops of the RF Armed Forces destroyed the enemy stronghold in the Svatov direction in the Donbass on the eve of the truce with the fire of the Soviet 122mm Msta-B howitzer.
15:54 Statement by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Konashenkov I.E. according to the situation on 01/07/2023.
Over the past day, an attack by units of the 14th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was repelled in the Kupyansk direction, more than 20 Ukrainian servicemen, a tank, a 122mm Grad MLRS and two cars were destroyed.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, an attack by two assault groups of the 80th and 95th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was repulsed, the enemy's losses amounted to more than 30 servicemen.
In the Donetsk direction, an attempt by units of the 110th and 79th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack Russian positions was thwarted, the losses of the enemy as a result of return fire amounted to 50 Ukrainian servicemen.
A counterattack by units of the 108th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was thwarted in the South-Donetsk direction, more than 20 Ukrainian servicemen and two D-30 howitzers were killed.
During the day, four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by means of air defense in the areas of the settlements of Ilchenkovo and Genichesk.
15:05 As a result of the shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian punishers, today at 12:45, the glazing of windows in one of the apartment buildings on the street was damaged. Stepan Shchipachev.
14:11 According to eyewitnesses, during the shelling of the Petrovsky district in the Tikhiy microdistrict,directhitting the roof of an apartment building. In one house the glazing was also damaged.
13:36 As a result of the shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, a woman born in 1965, an employee of the boiler room, was injured.
13:18 Enemy formations of Ukraine fired Petrovsky and Kirovsky areas. At 12:30 and 12:35 from N. 10 rockets from MLRS and 4 rounds of 155mm caliber were fired from Alexandropol and Kurakhovo villages.
12:02 Ukrainian troops shelled Makiivka in the Donetsk People's Republic for the second time in the morning, according to the Telegram channel of the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine.
According to the agency, at 10:30 a.m. Kirovsky and Chervonogvardeisky districts of the city were under fire.
“Six rounds of 155mm caliber were fired,” the publication says.
The first shelling was recorded at six in the morning - then the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired six rockets from the MLRS into the Gornyatsky district.
11:56 Ukrainian militants on Christmas night inflicted strikes on the residential sector of Gorlovka
The Stroitel residential area was damaged, one person was injured.
11:27 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for January 7, 2023, receivedadditionalinformation on damages as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district):
- damage was recorded to the building of branch No. 16 of the Centralized Library System along Lenin Ave.;
- st. Zhukova, 12 - apartment building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive. Well
10:25 Last night, Ukrainian fascists used artillery in the direction of the Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk. At 01:50 a.m. Maksimilyanovka settlement was fired two rounds of 155mm caliber.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
[Chernovec] A couple of curious opinions on the misplaced and misunderstood Christmas ceasefire
Military Correspondent Older than Edda;
From the field they report that ours have broken through the defense of the Khokhol near Soledar. Interestingly, according to the decree, Russian troops will stop today at 12 o'clock and give Ukrainians time to pilgrimage? So that they have time to go to church, and indeed, a truce.
The Russian Defense Ministry reports that it is observing the self-proclaimed truce, despite the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Blessed are the peacemakers, as the Scripture says. Now every unit of military equipment brought into the position of the Ukrainian, the rotation of personnel, the equipment of positions that will be carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine openly, since the Russian troops were forbidden to open fire, will lie on the conscience of the pilgrims.
The patriarch can immediately begin to pray for the souls of our slain soldiers that they will die after such a truce. They will die thanks to the shells that could be destroyed during the delivery. They will die thanks to the input of fresh forces by the Khokhl, which could have been struck in advance. They will die due to the lack of counter-battery combat during the period of the self-proclaimed ceasefire. Holy people will die for the Faith, from a Ukrainian Satanist. I am sure that the Patriarch will repent of their sins, free and not free.
Yesterday was a very important day. We were clearly and harshly shown that in the military year of 2023 it will no longer be possible to think in terms of "Minsk" and propaganda of previous years.
The original plan was as naive as it was beautiful. The Patriarch appeals to the President for a truce. The President authorizes and the Secretary of Defense gives the order. Further applause and tenderness from all sides. The world community applauds and calls on Ukraine to support the initiative of the Russian Federation. Then Ukraine, as usual, violates the truce and everyone sees that we are "not like that."
It's just that everything went wrong from the very beginning. Donbass, which has been choking with blood for 9 years, did not understand the truce. They did not understand him at the front. The citizens of Russia did not understand him, many of whom have already lost relatives and friends. No one understood why a truce was needed with the Ukronazis, who have been shelling churches, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, markets and residential skyscrapers for 9 years.
Almost immediately, Podolyak and Danilov spat into the outstretched hand of friendship. Peskov tried to rectify the situation ("We are not sure that Zelensky spat it, maybe it's not his drool"). But then German Foreign Minister Burbock and Joe Biden pulled themselves up, the hand of friendship under the weight of spitting thoroughly sank. Well, in the final, Zelensky himself pathetically spat there.
Almost immediately, photos of the shipment of French wheeled tanks to Ukraine appeared, plus deliveries of armored vehicles from the United States (BMP Bradley) and Germany (BMP Marder), weapons that are already quite serious, were announced.
What are the conclusions? This is a war of annihilation. This has not been hidden for a long time, and any Russian peace initiative of the United States and the EU will wipe the f*ck no less defiantly than the "Minsk agreements". You can win a war, or you can lose it. Loss for Russia means destruction, the "Western partners" will not make a second mistake, they will not allow us to survive, as after the 90s.
Therefore, the hysterical PR "we are not like that" can be curtailed and just fight. They know that "we are not like that." That's why they want to kill us.
Tynts: https://t.me/chervonec_001/18384
P.S.
Enough of this drooling already. Is GDP too naive? At least once they would have brought the matter to the end, not in word, but in deed.
They deceived the gullible with the Minsk agreements, the Istanbul agreements, the grain deal ... Yes, and Kherson was clearly handed over without a shot for something that the other side did not fulfill in such a way.
And now declare a truce without an agreement on both sides?
"The decision of the commander to defeat the enemy must be firm and without hesitation brought to the end.
Inaction, failure to use all forces, means and opportunities to achieve success, indecision and passivity lead to defeat" - it is written in some smart book.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Peace is for the weak. That’s certainly one perspective.
Assault groups of PMC "Wagner" liberated the village of Podgorodnoye on the northeastern outskirts of Artemovsk. Celebrated Christmas like an adult.
Concerning reports about the "capture of the Red Mountain".
So far, Krasnaya Gora is under the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Our troops are not yet in the village itself.
Fighting continues in the industrial zone and on the southeastern outskirts of Artemovsk.
Also today, fierce fighting continued in Opytnoye.
To the south of Artemovsk, ours continue to break into the fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the outskirts of Kleshcheevka, the capture of which will allow us to continue the bypass movement south of Artemovsk in the direction of Chasov Yar.
Also, fighting continues in the center of Soledar, the enemy has lost part of the city https://t.me/boris_rozhin/74648, but there are no signs of withdrawal - as reported from the scene, fierce street fighting is going on in the city.
Earlier, units of the 46th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were sent here to hold positions, which had already entered the battle and suffered significant losses.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] 1. To the south of Bakhmut (Artemovsk), fighting is going on in the area of the settlement. Kleshcheevka, where the Wagner is being hammered and the fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being stormed. We have not yet entered Kleshcheevka itself. To the south, ours are trying to move from the area of Kurdyumovka and Ozeryanovka, but the results are still unknown.
2. In Bakhmut itself, fighting is going on in the southeastern outskirts, where Wagner operators is fighting for every house.
Part of n.p. Opytnoye, the fighting is going on in the very center of the village, and no one will now mark a clear front line there.
In the area of the city industrial complex - fighting in the area of the gypsum plant, st. Patrice Lumumba. The advances are insignificant, the battles are more positional in nature.
3. Taken n.p. Podgorodnoye, where the system of Ukrainians of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is similar to Experimental, but they are still being broken there, and in Podgorodnoye they have already broken through.
There is an assault on the enemy strongholds between Podgorodny and Krasnaya Gora, ours have not yet entered the latter.
4. In Soledar, fighting continues in residential areas in the central part of the city. Assault detachments of PMC Wagner went to the salt mine 1.3, taking it. The enemy identified himself at the State Enterprise Artemsol (video with Butusov). They are sitting at the Sol station, on the western outskirts of Soledar, having transferred the 46th Brigade from the Zaporozhye direction to reinforce.
Our troops entered the city from the direction of Yakovlevka, information is coming in about the advance to the west towards the Seversk-Soledar highway, but even here it is difficult to determine the real front line at the moment.
5. According to military expert Boris Rozhin, the capture of Soledar will allow us to cover the enemy positions in Bakhmut from the north. At the same time, problems arise in the defense of the enemy north of Soledar at the turn of the settlement. Merry - Belogorovka - Berestovoe - Controversial.
The cutting of the Seversk-Soledar highway will make it possible to advance along it towards Seversk. With the development of the offensive on Seversk and to the north, the enemy is deprived of the opportunity to use the bridgehead in the area of the second Belogorovka near the Seversky Donets to put pressure on Lisichansk and through the forest to Kremennaya.
This is a complex effect.
6. The enemy is trying to cling to the areas of weapons depots, underground communications of Artemsoli and urban development.
7. Withdrawing in Artemovsk, the enemy will try to hold the defense in the western part of the city, if necessary, reaching equipped positions in the area of the settlement. Chasov Yar, using the dominant heights, before retreating to Druzhkovka-Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka. With the pushing through of the enemy in Artemovsk, the front is unlikely to crumble.
8. Breakthrough defense in Soledar may have more serious consequences for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But it all depends on the pace of our advance and how quickly the enemy will be able to stabilize the line after the loss of Soledar.
The position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this direction is close to critical, which is confirmed by the transfer of formations from the Zaporozhye direction to Bakhmut and Soledar. If the front is sprinkled with them, then it will be sprinkled not only there.
[Jpost] State Department spokesman Ned Price condemned the practice of recruiting convicted criminals for battle in exchange for freedom if they are willing to fight, calling it a "barbaric tactic."
The US condemned the Russian mercenary group Wagner for its release of mercenaries recruited from prisons who had completed their contract with the private military company on Thursday night, even as Wagner reportedly sought to enlist more convicts from Chechen jails.State Department spokesman Ned Price condemned the practice of "Seeking out convicts – in many cases individuals who had been convicted of violent crimes – promising them freedom if they were to fight and in many cases likely die on the front lines as well," as "a barbaric tactic."
"This is a tactic that the world has condemned," Price said at a Thursday press briefing. "It’s a tactic that is extralegal. Human rights groups have been vocally critical of it for that reason as well."
[Twitter] Even worse for Russia is the oil market. Ural Crude oil is at 50 USD/Barrel. Remember, India and China get huge discounts, so the price is even lower than that.
The natural gas prices continue to drop and now they have a reached a level lower than any time in 2022. Last time when the price was below 68 EUR/MWh was in October 2021.
Latest quote is $48.99 for Urals Crude. $30 below Euro/Mideast and $25 below US crude quotes. 2021 Russian federal budget breakeven was estimated at $69/bbl. At current oil and gas prices, reduced volumes (esp nat gas) from 2021 and greatly increased military spending, Russia is running a ferocious budget deficit w/o prospects for borrowing when their banked surplus, much of it frozen in the west, runs low.
Posted by: Waldemar the Limber5043 ||
01/08/2023 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[5 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Rantburg not accepting link: The Kremlin regime intends to increase tax pressure on domestic producers Bloomberg says. In particular, the publication stresses that the Russian authorities are preparing to seize funds from major producers of raw materials and state companies. It is about those companies which are not involved in defense and do not produce anything useful for the war. Thus, it is proposed to establish a permanent tax in favor of the war at a level not lower than 50% of the net profit of all state companies.
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.
[JPost] The Kremlin will mobilize up to 500,000 Russians for a spring offensive, Ukrainian Defense Ministry representatives predicted on Friday.
