[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A major oil refinery was hit by two huge explosions in a kamikaze drone strike in Volgograd - the first air raid on the city, previously called Stalingrad, since Hitler's failed invasion 81 years ago.
The moment of the suspected Ukrainian attack at 4:49am was caught on dramatic footage.
The strike on the Lukoil facility came the day after the city marked the 80th anniversary of the end of the epic Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War.
The Volgograd oil refinery in southern Russia is one of the country's largest, and had been upgraded shortly before the war at a cost of £105 million.
It produces gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel, and fuel for ships.
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[Korrespondent] 21:47 The US Treasury announced sanctions against a key network of suppliers of materials and technologies for Iran's ballistic missile and drone programs, including the Shahed series. US sanctions target four entities from Iran and Hong Kong that engaged in covert supply to sanctioned Iranian entities.
21:10 Two more air defense systems have arrived in Ukraine , Zelensky said in an evening video message: “All the details, of course, should not be said publicly. But the systems are those that shoot down everything. We will protect the regions. For now, the systems are not yet enough to fully protect Ukraine, but We work for this every day."
19:51 Zelensky said that he held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Headquarters, at which five issues were considered: Ukrainian production of drones, production and import of shells, the situation at the front, the build-up of fortifications, as well as the restoration of energy after Russian attacks and its physical protection.
The President emphasized that this year an additional budget has already been formed specifically for drones. In general, he said, “as of this year, more than 90% of the drones at the front are domestic production.” As for the situation at the front, the situation in Avdiivka is especially difficult, Zelensky noted.
19:32 The Russians shelled Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk region - two people were wounded, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak.
19:26 Since the beginning of this year, military personnel in various interviews began to shock with statements about a repeated attack on the Ukrainian capital. They name different options for an offensive - from the Sumy, Chernigov regions or from the territory of Belarus. Even the generals of the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not exclude the worst scenario. For more details, see the article The military started talking about a new attack on Kiev .
18:58 Lithuania transferred a new batch of military aid to Ukraine. The package included, in particular, RISE-1 remote detonation systems and more than a thousand shells for the Swedish Carl Gustaf anti-tank grenade launcher.
18:25 A Russian spy was exposed again in Germany. This time - of Ukrainian origin. It turned out to be Vladimir Sergienko, an assistant to a Bundestag deputy from the Alternative for Germany party. Sergienko reported to the Moscow curator about his actions, coordinated further steps, and also received funding. Read more in the material Unmasking a Spy .
17:53 The Russians once again struck Kherson during the day, one person was wounded, the OVA reported.
17:16 Kuleba called “stupid” those who do not believe in Russia’s attack on NATO countries: “Anyone who today thinks that Putin will not dare to send his army to a NATO country is short-sighted. I would even say, if we put aside political correctness, that they are stupid."
17:04 The International Court of Justice has ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear Ukraine's 2022 lawsuit against Russia over its military invasion. The court also rejected six of Russia's objections to the claim, declaring it admissible.
Ukraine filed a lawsuit with the UN court on February 26, 2022, complaining that the Russian Federation is abusing the International Convention on the Prevention of Genocide to justify a full-scale invasion: by announcing the so-called “special military operation,” Putin stated that he intended to prevent genocide.
16:42 UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said the West must ensure Russia's defeat in Ukraine or risk being attacked by dictatorial regimes such as China.
16:05 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry made an official demarche to Nicaragua due to the arrival of a delegation from Crimea; an official note of protest was transmitted on January 31, said the department’s speaker Oleg Nikolenko. Representatives of the Russian occupation administration in Crimea visited Nicaragua on January 23. Among other things, they discussed the establishment of sister city ties between Yalta and Granada.
15:33 The Russian army fired at residential areas in the center of Kherson. A three-story house was partially destroyed and neighboring houses were damaged. Currently, two casualties are known, the OVA reported. In addition, the Russians again dropped explosives from a drone on a resident of Berislav - he was wounded.
15:24 Zelensky said that he held a meeting in Kiev with Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly - they discussed further support for Ukraine, the joint implementation of the Peace Formula, the development of a system of security guarantees, as well as the work of the International Coalition for the return of Ukrainian children.
14:56 At the Belbek airfield near Sevastopol, at least three Russian aircraft, as well as personnel, were hit, said Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat: “The best confirmation is satellite images, where you can see something. But even better confirmation is this obituaries in Russian public pages. This is what they themselves admit and publish information about the defeats. At least there were three planes, certain personnel were destroyed."
14:52 The Russian army attacked Inhulets, Kherson region, two people were wounded, the OVA reported. Over the previous 24 hours, two people were killed and six were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
14:43 The German Bundestag adopted a state budget with military assistance for Ukraine in the amount of about 7.6 billion euros.
14:40 Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that he was going to the United States to convince Washington to provide further assistance to Ukraine. “It turns out that it’s worth talking to the unconvinced, so I’m flying to Washington to convince the unconvinced there,” he said.
14:37 Four more children from the occupied territories were returned to Ukraine, the Save Ukraine organization reported. In total, the team has already taken 235 children from the occupation and Russia.
14:31 Armin Kerper, a journalist with the German public broadcaster ZDF, who heads the Moscow bureau of the TV channel, shot a report with a distorted picture of life in occupied Mariupol. In it, he talks about how the city is supposedly being “rebuilt,” and the majority of its residents are pro-Russian, and there is no resistance there.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said that such a distortion of reality cannot be considered journalistic work, and the head of the ZDF Moscow bureau did not receive consent from Kyiv to travel to Mariupol, which is a violation of Ukrainian law. “We urge ZDF to provide official explanations. Violations of Ukrainian legislation may affect the further activities of this TV channel in Ukraine,” Nikolenko added.
13:47 Macron confirmed the death of two French volunteers in Ukraine: “Two French humanitarian workers were killed in Ukraine as a result of a Russian strike. A cowardly and outrageous act. I express my solidarity to all volunteers who strive to help people.”
13:24 Ukraine and Canada have created a coalition to return Ukrainian children, said Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly. According to her, Ottawa will discuss this issue with other countries to unite and facilitate the return of children.
13:19 Kuleba is confident that the decision on the use of Russian assets will be made in 2024: “Ukraine, together with its partners, will make a decision on the use of Russian frozen assets in 2024. This decision will be made in 2024, I have no doubt, knowing the dynamics of these discussions ". According to the minister, the question is that this decision has its own difficulties and, perhaps, will be made in parts - first on the income tax on the frozen asset, on the profit itself and, ultimately, on the asset itself.
13:01 The court, based on materials from the SBU, arrested the property of ex-people's deputy Oleg Tsarev, involved in financing the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, with a total value of 460.6 million hryvnia. We are talking about an apartment in the center of the Dnieper, a plot of land in the Kyiv region, as well as two property complexes in Crimea.
12:45 Ukraine and Canada have reached the home stretch on the issue of an agreement on security guarantees, Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said at a joint briefing with Kuleba: “At the NATO summit, it was decided that each G7 country would discuss separate security agreements with Ukraine, but they would be consistent "We hope that our agreement has reached the finish line."
12:43 Peskov said that the issue of returning to Ukraine the bodies of those killed in the Il-76 crash is in the hands of the investigative authorities. At the same time, he claims that the administration of the President of the Russian Federation has not received any requests from Kyiv asking for the transfer of the bodies of prisoners killed in the Il-76 crash. He also said that he is not aware that “anyone in the world has responded to Putin’s call to conduct an international investigation” into the disaster.
12:38 The production volume of artillery ammunition in the European Union should reach 1.4 million in 2024, and next year it should grow to 2 million, said Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for the Internal Market. The EU admitted that they will not supply Ukraine with a million artillery shells until March of this year - by this time only 524 thousand will be delivered. At the same time, they promise to deliver 1.1 million shells by the end of the year.
12:32 Ukraine attacked the Russian boat Ivanovets with maritime drones MAGURA V5, Budanov said. According to him, the drones were controlled by the drone unit of the 13th GUR group. There were a total of six direct hits by naval drones on the ship's hull.
12:26 Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly arrived in Kiev. She has already met with her Ukrainian colleague Dmitry Kuleba.
11:59 There are now more than 70 thousand Russian military personnel on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the Southern Defense Forces. According to her, the enemy group, which is trying to push back the Defense Forces from the left bank, is constantly changing in quantitative and qualitative composition: “Because as a result of unsuccessful assault operations, they lose up to 70% of the personnel in each assault group. And the units are forced to constantly maneuver and be transferred to different directions. The total enemy grouping on the left bank is estimated at more than 70 thousand personnel and hundreds of weapons and equipment."
At the same time, Gumenyuk clarified that not all of these troops are concentrated directly along the front line - they are located in deeper rear areas, from where they are pulled up as an additional resource.
11:27 Russian troops began to attack Ukraine more often with ballistics, because they understand the capabilities of Ukrainian air defense to destroy kamikaze drones and cruise missiles, said Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat. Ballistics, he said, can only be shot down by special means, of which Ukraine does not have many. Therefore, the enemy more often uses missiles flying along a ballistic trajectory - Iskander-M, Kinzhal, Kh-22 and S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles.
11:02 Putin announced plans to integrate the occupied territories of Ukraine into the Russian Federation over the next six years, until 2030, which indicates the long-term nature of his intentions, analysts from the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) note. In their opinion, this position of Moscow does not imply any territorial concessions.
In addition, Putin called on Russian banks not to be afraid of Western sanctions and to step up work in the occupied territories. He also claims that the constituent entities of the Russian Federation have established patronage networks with the occupied regions of Ukraine.
10:35 A Russian plane dropped another bomb, reports the opposition Russian publication Astra. According to journalists, on February 1, in the occupied Zimogorye of the Luhansk region, ammunition, presumably FAB-500, was found on Parkhomenko Street. Residents of the street were evacuated; inspection and removal of ammunition will take place today, February 2.
10:29 Critical infrastructure remains a priority for Russian attacks, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the Southern Defense Forces. “The night attack was again in the traditions that the enemy lays down for us according to his scheme. The work of the air defense was very powerful and long. This is the depletion of our systems. The drones maneuvered for almost six hours. A characteristic feature was that the enemy sends its long-range loitering shells and to the front-line territories," she added.
09:58 During the attack on the Belbek airfield in Sevastopol on January 31, a Russian general could have been eliminated. Russian public pages write that ten Russian servicemen were killed as a result of the attack, among them the commander of the aviation squadron, Lieutenant General Alexander Tatarenko.
09:20 The head of the General Staff of the Romanian Armed Forces, Georgica Vlad, said that the Romanian population, like all residents of Europe, should prepare for the possible expansion of Russian aggression beyond the borders of Ukraine. He called on NATO countries to replenish their weapons stockpiles and prepare their populations, including by introducing voluntary military service. In Romania, he called for legal reforms to give the country the ability to defend against Russian drones. According to him, the Romanian side failed to shoot down at least one Russian drone because the law does not allow this.
09:09 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of February 2:
personnel - about 387,060 (+830) people,
tanks - 6331 (+9),
armored combat vehicles - 11,792 (+19),
artillery systems - 9274 (+46),
MLRS - 978 (+2),
air defense systems - 663 (+0),
aircraft - 332 (+0),
helicopters - 324 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 7146 (+5),
cruise missiles - 1847 (+0),
ships/boats - 24 (+1),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 12,316 (+49),
special equipment - 1470 (+8).
08:50 Over the past 24 hours, 63 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Avdeevka direction, the Defense Forces repelled 16 enemy attacks in the Avdeevka area and six more attacks near Pervomaiskoye and Nevelskoye, Donetsk region. In the Maryinsky direction, 11 attacks were repelled near Krasnohorivka, Georgievka and Novomikhailovka, Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, five enemy attacks were repelled near Ivanovka, Kharkov region; on Limansky - one attack in the Ternov area of the Donetsk region; on Bakhmutskoye - one attack near Kleshcheevka, Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - one attack south of Zolotaya Niva, Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - one attack in the Rabotino area of the Zaporozhye region. In the Kherson direction, the Defense Forces hold their positions and repelled 14 assaults by Russian troops.
08:36 In the Zaporozhye region, two people were wounded as a result of Russian shelling - in Malaya Tokmachka and Preobrazhenka, said the head of the OVA Yuriy Malashko.
08:09 Air defense at night destroyed 11 of 24 attack UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type, which Russia attacked from Primorsko-Akhtarsk and from the Crimean Cape Chauda. In particular, the strike was aimed at critical infrastructure facilities in the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Air Force command reported. Air defense operated within the Dnepropetrovsk, Kherson, Kirovograd and Kharkov regions. At the same time, at least seven drones did not reach their targets and were lost in location.
07:38 In the Krivoy Rog district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, as a result of being hit by an enemy UAV, more than 40 thousand subscribers were cut off, including two mines. More than 100 workers remained underground, some of them have already been brought to the surface, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Lysak. In addition, according to updated information, one person was injured during yesterday’s attack on the Pokrovsk rural community.
06:42 At night, Russia massively attacked the southern and central regions of Ukraine with drones. One of Ukrenergo’s substations was damaged, and household and industrial consumers in the city of Krivoy Rog were de-energized, the company reported.
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[Korrespondent] Dmitry Pletenchuk noted that the tactics of a group drone strike on an enemy ship on the high seas were used.
Operations to destroy Russian ships are unique because they are developed taking into account the enemy’s experience. In particular, this concerns the attack on the missile boat Ivanovets of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. This was stated by the speaker of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Dmitry Pletenchuk on the air of the national telethon United News.
According to him, the successful conduct of such an operation testifies to the skill of both planning and use of weapons, since the Russians “had a set of measures, they prepared in advance to repel such attacks.”
He noted that in a technological sense, the Ivanovets boat was not a completely new vessel “due to its age,” but the Russians could use it for a long time.
Pletenchuk added that the tactics of a group strike of unmanned systems against an enemy ship on the high seas were used and, most likely, this is not the only example in the world, however, in another sense, “Ukraine has actually become a similar driver for their use in real combat conditions.”
The speaker noted that the Russians have already responded to the destruction of another ship, and recalled that since the beginning of the new year, an unusually large number of Russian ships have been observed in the Black Sea - from 5 to 10 units, and now there are only three of them, and “there are no missile carriers at sea".
“Apparently, the enemy is also trying to analyze the situation and draw appropriate conclusions,” Pletenchuk suggested.
He added that the operation to hit the missile boat once again confirmed the fact that the Russian fleet cannot feel safe near the shores of the temporarily occupied Crimea in the Black Sea.
As you know, on the night of February 1, the Russian missile boat Ivanovets was destroyed. Judging by the published video, it suffered a number of hits from naval drones and sank.
Let us recall that earlier the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Kirill Budanov, said that the Ukrainian military destroyed the Russian missile boat Ivanovets with Magura V5 naval drones.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces repelled five attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 30th, 44th Mechanised brigades, and 95th Air Assault Brigade near Terni (Donetsk People's Republic) and Sinkovka (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up 45 Ukrainian troops, two pickup trucks, and one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
In Krasny Liman direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front lines and with support of artillery repelled three attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 60th Mechanised Brigade near Yampolovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 270 Ukrainian troops, one tank, three armoured fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and one U.S.-made M119 howitzer.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 22nd Mechanised Brigade and 114th Territorial Defence Brigade near Kleshcheyevka and Krasnoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Two attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 81st Airmobile Brigade were repelled near Belogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 290 Ukrainian troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, and 17 motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare, one U.S.-made M777 artillery system, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle were neutralised. In addition, four field ammunition depots were destroyed.
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces supported by aviation inflicted losses on units of the AFU 58th Mechanised Brigade and 127th Territorial Defence Brigade near Urozhaynoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 100 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and two 122mm D-30 howitzers.
In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware clusters of the AFU 118th Mechanised Brigade, 128th Mountain Assault Brigade, and 82nd Air Assault Brigade near Rabotino, Nesteryanka, and Verbovoye (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 55 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, three armoured fighting vehicles, two pickup trucks, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
In Kherson direction, units of the AFU 38th Marines Brigade suffered losses. The AFU losses amounted to up to 35 Ukrainian troops, one tank, two motor vehicles, one U.S.-made M777 artillery system, and two 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces wiped out one ammunition depot of the AFU 110th Mechanised Brigade, as well as engaged manpower and hardware in 102 areas during the day.
Air defence units intercepted two Olkha MLRS projectiles over the past 24 hours.
In addition, 40 unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down during the day near Berestovoye (Khakov region), Novoselovka (Donetsk People's Republic), Novaya Mayachka (Kherson region), Semenovka, and Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
In total, 568 airplanes and 265 helicopters, 11,620 unmanned aerial vehicles, 457 air defence missile systems, 14,888 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,215 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 7,946 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 18,156 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 02/02/2024 to 00:00 02/03/2024
A total of 45 cases of armed attacks by the UFU were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
Two civilians were reported injured.
DAMAGED:
Nine residential buildings;
Two civil infrastructure facilities.
Eleven artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction.
A total of 32 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
Two artillery attacks in the Yasinovat direction.
A total of 151 units of various ammunition were fired
21:11 By n.p. Zmievka again arrived FABs with UMPC, guys from the Dnepr group of troops are working.
19:55 Repair Damaged equipment in the South Donetsk direction does not stop for a minute.
Military personnel of the Eastern group of forces work in several shifts to speed up the process of restoring combat vehicles as much as possible. The workshops carry out minor repairs, maintenance and complete replacement of failed components and assemblies. It takes about two days to repair one piece of equipment. Then the combat vehicle is run-in, tested at the training ground and returned to the front line.
18:37 Zaporozhye direction:
North-west of Verbovoe. There is a powerful artillery battle for forest plantations from the north-western part of the village.
The UAV operators discovered an enemy assault group of 9 people; part of the group was destroyed by an artillery strike, and some were forced to flee.
In the area of the village Rabotino, using aerial surveillance, identified armored enemy vehicles.
After transmitting the target coordinates to the artillerymen, a targeted fire strike from the MLRS was carried out, and the Russian Aerospace Forces aviation also worked in this area.
18:30 They arrive messages that on January 29, a missile strike near Seversk hit the location of the Ukrainian Armed Forces battalion “Carpathian Sich”.
The bulk of the personnel was destroyed, literally several people were wounded. The removal of the dead began on January 30.
According to preliminary data, a number of “foreigners” who happened to be at the site of the attack also died along with the Ukrainian military.
18:05 Two destroyed Ukrainian American-made International MaxxPro armored car near the village. Rovnopil, Donetsk People's Republic. Summer 2023.
17:50 Ukrainian militants released in the village. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district) three rounds of 155mm caliber. – representative office of the JCCC DPR
17:10 According to the operational lines of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC on February 2, as of 17:00, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Yasinovatsky district:
– a man born in 1996 was injured as a result of a kamikaze UAV attack on the Yasinovataya-Gorlovka highway.
n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district):
– as a result of the detonation of a previously unexploded cluster submunition, a woman born in 1966 was wounded.
Information has been received about damage as a result of artillery attack by the AFU in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka:
Nikitovsky district:
artillery attack at 01:25: A total of 14 transformer substations are de-energized, 2,848 subscribers are without power supply.
artillery attack at 11:50:
– st. Pobeda, 6 – direct hit on a private residential building;
– st. Pobeda, 10 – private residential building.
Artillery attack at 15:30: – st. Bolotnikova, 5 – direct hit in an apartment building.
Central City District:
– MBOU “Secondary school No. 58” on the street. Glebova.
16:49 Information is received about a breakthrough by the Russian Armed Forces in the area of the “Tsar’s Hunt” and an advance of 1.25 km from the Blue Lakes, which actually means the division of Avdievka into two parts.
14:55 In the Donetsk direction, our fighters significantly pushed Ukrainian units northeast of Novomikhailovka, surrounding the Ukrainian garrison on three sides. At the same time, the advance of Russian troops in the area of Georgievka, Nevelskoye and Pervomaiskoye was noted.
Fierce fighting continues on the southeastern approaches to Avdievka and in the Stepnoye area.
13:49 Situation at the front on February 2:
Krynki (Kherson region). Active hostilities and the exchange of blows from the left bank to the right and back continue. In connection with saving ammunition, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are gradually reducing the use of artillery, transferring the bulk of attacks to FPV drones and quadcopters with drops. However, at critical moments for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, artillery with cluster munitions is used.
Reports from individual channels about the creation of a “new bridgehead” in Krynki do not correspond to reality. In reality, due to large losses, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have changed the routes for transporting supplies by boat and are moving to Krynki through other channels, but there is no talk of any expansion or creation of a “new bridgehead.”
Due to the lack of an equipped shore, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have tried and are trying to probe other landing points near Krynki, but these searches do not improve the situation. In January, Ukrainian Armed Forces losses on the right and left banks: almost 2,000 people killed and wounded, 90 boats, 13 howitzers, 26 self-propelled guns.
Avdievka. The Russian Armed Forces advanced slightly from the southeast in the area of Sobornaya, Chernyshevsky and Sportivnaya streets. While the main forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were distracted to liquidate the breakthrough in the Tsar’s Hunt area, the Russian Armed Forces struck from the north, concentrated fire on the positions of the Ukrainian troops, advanced close to the Ivushka SNT near the sand quarry and went a little further.
The plot between the Khimik microdistrict and Krasnoarmeyskaya street is five square meters. km, which the RF Armed Forces are pressing from the southwest of the industrial zone and from the north, is located on a hill, so the Armed Forces in this area are pushing back to the last. This partly explains the increased activity of Ukrainian Armed Forces tanks in this area. Full-fledged urban battles in Avdievka have actually been finalized and are in full force. The Donetsk filtration station is still under the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Mar'inka - Kurakhovo. Construction equipment has been spotted near Kurakhiv since the end of January, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces will presumably use in the near future to build trenches.
Advancement near Novomikhailovka is difficult, but the Russian Armed Forces have made progress in the area of the Pobeda settlement. The bulk of the work in this area is now being done by artillery and drones. At the same time, the reserves of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the operational depth of the defense are affected.
Kupyansk. On the line Kislovka - Kotlyarovka - Ivanovka, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, fearing a breakthrough by the Russian Armed Forces, transferred fresh reserves of the 32nd and 43rd Mechanized Infantry brigades. There are still no changes on the Tabaevka-Kharkhmalnoe line; the Ukrainian Armed Forces are preparing to defend Peschany, which lies in the lowlands (like Tabaevka). On the Russian side, there is a noticeable increase in the activity of operational-tactical aviation: the intensity of the use of FAB-500 aerial bombs with UMPC has increased significantly.
Flanks of Artyomovsk. In the north, in the Bogdanovka area, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to counterattack. Their main task is to push back the Russian Armed Forces from already occupied positions. In some sections from Bogdanovka to the first streets of Chasov Yar in the area of the bus plant - less than three km.
Adding to the difficulty for the attack aircraft of the Russian Armed Forces are the railway separating Bogdanovka and Chasov Yar, and the topography of the area: Bogdanovka lies below Chasov Yar - and, in fact, you have to attack from the bottom up. In the south, in the Kleshcheevka area, the clearing of Ukrainian Armed Forces positions 500 m west of the railway continues.
Zaporozhye direction. The Ukrainian Armed Forces intensified attacks in the area of the villages of Rabotino and Verbovoye. Fresh reserves are being rushed into battle, but the level of training of new formations is several times lower than that of regular units.
13:38 Dnipropetrovsk region. It is reported that as a result of a night missile strike on Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities, a military workshop for assembling equipment for armored vehicles and a warehouse with parts were hit.
12:50 Another rotation of enemy units struck near Artemovsk. During aerial reconnaissance, a UAV operator of the Ulan-Ude separate guards airborne formation discovered a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry heading towards forward positions. By dropping FOGs, the enemy's manpower was destroyed.
11:55 "Krasnopol" destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces tank in the Staromayorsky area. The armored target was hit with a direct hit and was identified by Russian soldiers using an unmanned aerial vehicle.
11:35 Units of the Russian Armed Forces advanced east of Opytny and approached the air defense base from the west. The enemy only had the road from the north, under the cover of Cheburashka and the Vinogradniki cottage village.
At the same time, yesterday a TOS was carried out at Vinogradniki, which perhaps indicates an intention to take control of the village. If Vineyards are taken, then, as previously assumed, “Air Defense” and “Cheburashka” will only have a few days left.
In the north of Avdievka, soldiers of the 114th Brigade advanced south, to the Ivushki gardening community. Thus reaching the western side of the sand pit. The enemy is unlikely to be able to hold positions north of the quarry now
If we manage to cut off Avdeevka from AKHZ, then most likely the enemy will soon begin to retreat to the “9th quarter”, and then to Lastochkino.
10:37 During the past 24 hours, the DPR representative office in the JCCC recorded 66 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces, and 222 rounds of ammunition were fired.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 13 attacks, in the Gorlovka direction - 52, in the Yasinovatsky direction - 1.
Information was received about the death of one civilian in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, and another was wounded. 10 residential buildings in Gorlovka were damaged.
10:00 In the Krasno-Limansk direction, our troops continue to push back the enemy. This was reported by a military expert, retired Lieutenant Colonel of the LPR NM Andrei Marochko.
“In the vicinity of the village of Kremennaya, the Russian Armed Forces have once again improved the situation along the front line. The most progress was made in the Ternov region. Using natural cover and the terrain, our units advanced more than two km inland. In Serebryansky Forest, with the support of the Aerospace Forces and artillery, the line of combat contact was leveled in an area of up to 3.5 km. In the Belogorivka area, during active hostilities, a stronghold of Ukrainian militants was destroyed,” Marochko wrote in the Telegram channel.
09:31 The criminal Kiev 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. Alyosha five rounds;
-- n.p. Kardashinka two rounds;
-- n.p. Podstepnoye two rounds;
-- n.p. Novaya Zburevka three rounds;
-- n.p. Golaya Pristan three rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Kazachi Lagery, n.p. Novaya Mayachka, n.p. Dnepryany, n.p. Korsunka, firing a total of 15 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
08:17 The Russian Armed Forces launched strikes tonight on military targets in Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk region and Kropyvnytskyi in Ukraine - local media
08:12 Calculation of the 152mm 2S5 Msta-SM1 self-propelled howitzer destroyed eight enemy vehicles in the Kupyansk direction.
Having received intelligence information, the artillerymen of the “Western” group of forces fired a series of shots at identified targets. The self-propelled gun's fire was adjusted by UAV operators.
“We're on fire. We were told there were three more rounds there. As a result, all targets - eight pieces of equipment - were hit,” said the commander of the self-propelled artillery installation.
08:07 RF Armed Forcesadvancednorth of Georgievka on the Maryinsky direction.
08:05 Appeared personnel breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense by soldiers of the "Veterans" brigade in Avdievka.
The assault brigade is working in the fortified areas of Ukrainian militants surrounding the Avdievka industrial zone. As the military notes, the work is under difficult conditions, but they are used to it.
“Most of the time you walk, you endure. This is a battle of characters. Shooting is not as difficult as enduring it all - the cold, the dirt,” notes one of the attack aircraft.
Stormtroopers and tank crews of the Russian Armed Forces cleared all fortified areas of the industrial zone. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost about 70 militants, and a little more than 30 left their positions. The fighters knock out the enemy from there and also strike other positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces around the industrial zone.
08:00 Frontline summary on the morning of 02/02/2024:
In the Zaporozhye direction, west of the village of Rabotino, the fighting again took on a counter character. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have advanced slightly northwest of Verbovoy. The Russian Armed Forces attacked from Novofedorovka.In the Ugledarsky sector, Russian troops managed to occupy new positions north of Priyutnoye. Advancement to a depth of more than a kilometer.
On the Donetsk Front, the Russian Armed Forces seriously pushed the Armed Forces of Ukraine northeast of Novomikhailovka. The Ukrainian garrison in this locality is actually surrounded on three sides, but is not retreating. Attempts by the Russian Armed Forces to advance at Georgievka, Nevelskoye and Pervomaiskoye. On the southeastern outskirts of Avdeevka, fierce oncoming battles continue. The situation is the same in Stepnoye (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Zaporozhye and Ugledar directions).
In the Bakhmut direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces counterattacked on the heights northwest of Kleshcheevka and regained several previously lost positions. The Russian Armed Forces continued offensive operations near Ivanovsky. In the Bogdanovka area there are oncoming battles.
In the Lugansk direction, Russian troops advanced to Terny. The Russian Armed Forces are about two kilometers away from this key settlement, through which the Ukrainian group on the left bank of the Zherebets River is supplied. Berestovoy, Khrakhmalny and Tabaevka had tough oncoming battles. Russian troops continued attacks in the Sin'kovka area.
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[REGNUM] In 2024, world news has eclipsed military reports from Ukraine, Gaza, Yemen and other hot spots. Meanwhile, right before our eyes, a real technical revolution is taking place; man is realizing an old dream: flying is as easy as driving a car.
Following the revolution that drones brought about in warfare, another revolution began unnoticed by others, one that could change the world forever in the same way that smartphones and the Internet did just recently. This is a revolution of vertically flying vehicles (vertical flying vehicles).
A little over a hundred years ago, people took to the skies on airplanes. Since then, they have progressed from lath and plywood structures to supersonic speeds, but have not solved their main problem: the inability to rise and stay in the air in one place. This implies the need for an airfield and a run-up run during takeoff and landing.
By the middle of the twentieth century, this drawback was partially resolved.
Helicopters have appeared that are capable of fully functioning. They could sit anywhere as long as there was a flat surface and enough free space for the screw. However, in this case a different problem arose. When the propeller touched anything, the flight ended in disaster.
But the most important thing is that helicopters consume fuel several times more than airplanes and fly relatively slowly. A flight speed of more than 300 km/h is already a record. In addition, the complex gear transmission for the propeller is very expensive to produce, and this is largely why the helicopter was not put into mass production (unlike a car).
Since the advent of helicopters, electronics have developed.
And about 10-15 years ago, all the necessary components appeared that overcome the shortcomings of the helicopter as a means of landing vertically and economically, and also relatively inexpensive. Namely: electric motors, generators, batteries and electricity conversion systems.
Until the 2010s, the listed components together had such a specific mass that it made no sense at all to make such flying structures. But now the necessary parts have become available, first in motor vehicles, and then in aviation.
And we, in fact, are at the beginning of an era, which will be marked by the one who is the first to combine all these elements in the most rational way into one scheme that can determine the next several decades, and perhaps a longer period.
Now let’s clarify why vertically taking off vehicles (VTOLs) are a real revolution, and not just another version of a helicopter.
Firstly, the dimensions of the dangerous zone of rotor rotation are reduced, and most prototype variants have higher passive safety, due to which the risk of an accident is lower.
Secondly, the energy consumption is noticeably lower compared to a helicopter, and therefore the range is noticeably higher.
Thirdly, the cost of mass production will be noticeable, just several times lower than that of a helicopter. With higher reliability and the ability to fly independently.
For example, one device designed for 4 people can fly up to 1000 km, spending 200–300 liters of gasoline at a price of 10–15 million rubles (generalized calculation). And at the same time, he will be able to land on a site near the house, in a clearing, in the yard, and so on. This type of transport will become accessible to many people, although not to everyone at first, but it is an order of magnitude more affordable than a helicopter.
And most importantly, such prototypes already exist. They fly all over the world and are being actively put into operation in some places.
In November, as part of the Dubai Air Show 2023, a historic contract was signed between the American company Archer Aviation and the UAE helicopter operator Air Chateau for the purchase of 100 air taxis with a total value of about $500 million. According to plans, the first 100 electric aircraft will be ready for operation in 2026. Coinciding with the launch of Air Chateau Arabic
Abu Dhabi Investment Fund intends to introduce air taxi services. Agreements for the supply of 200 vehicles have also been concluded with India. Another six electric aircraft were purchased by the US Army for special operations.
Of course, vertically taking off vehicles are a revolution not only in transport, but also in military affairs. If a helicopter landing of a hundred vehicles is a very strong trump card, what can a landing force of 2 to 3 thousand vehicles be capable of?
In the UK, an active search for optimal tactical schemes is also currently underway. It should be noted that the British pay special attention to light infantry, infiltration tactics in small groups.
Dropping forward groups in front of a helicopter landing, which can gain a foothold in the required area, ensure the safety of the landing. DRGs with light guided weapons become a bone in the throat. 8-10 people with a light mortar, a machine gun, an anti-material rifle, a heavy sniper, a hand-held revolver grenade launcher and several MANPADS and ATGMs - such a team can do a lot of damage in a vulnerable place.
And if there are a couple of dozen such groups, and they are clearly coordinated with each other, then it is extremely difficult to eliminate them. Even at sea, operations with the landing of groups and troops will change greatly.
Well, don’t think that their apparent vulnerability in flight will make them easy to destroy.
Most likely, it will turn out like with drones, which, it would seem, can be easily shot down with a machine gun, but in practice this requires a huge amount of effort. The upgraded design will allow pilots to use the weapon with one hand and control the flight with the other.
Before the start of the SVO, many skeptics did not believe in the effectiveness of drones. We already understand the value of their technical analysis.
At the moment, there are already summary tables on the readiness of many devices from different developers. 2025–2026 will be the peak of prototype production, and the best of them will go into mass production. Two or three years for trial operation, changes in legislation, and the result of the 1910s will be repeated, when the number of developments of the first aircraft turned into qualitative growth, and then mass application in many fields of activity.
Vtols - vertically taking off vehicles - despite the skepticism of many critics, are already moving from the stage of experimental flights to mass production.
In Russia, with its vast expanses, the benefits of this transport revolution are even more obvious.
The country has all the necessary capabilities to create, in essence, its own “iPhone” among aircraft. Russia has a head start due to our lack of an influential “green” agenda, due to which in other countries there is a bias towards a purely electric scheme, to the detriment of a more efficient hybrid scheme with an internal combustion engine.
And we have such projects in our country.
Our time resembles the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries in terms of the number of breakthrough new products that radically change our familiar world. Therefore, it is possible to use the experience of that era to analyze similar processes. If there is political will, Russia could become the leading country that would be the first to launch mass production of such devices. The necessary resources and competencies are available, as are projects that can be implemented in a fairly short time.
The creation of Russian helicopters (light vertical take-off and landing aircraft) is a matter of national importance and technological sovereignty of the country. Russia has the opportunity to play a leading role in this new big deal.
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[Regnum] A court in the DPR sentenced Azov fighter (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) Renat Aliyev to life imprisonment for the murders of civilians in Mariupol committed in March 2022, the Investigative Committee reported on February 2.
Aliyev was found guilty of committing crimes under articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on cruel treatment of the civilian population, as well as the murder of two or more persons committed by an organized group, motivated by political and ideological hatred, the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
“The investigation and the court established that in March 2022, Aliyev, together with his colleagues, carried out a combat mission to protect and defend a site in the city of Mariupol and was in a combat position equipped in one of the apartment buildings. Having discovered the movement of a man and a woman who did not participate in the armed conflict, Aliyev gave the order to his subordinate Oleg Lukyanenko to kill them. Lukyanenko shot two people with a sniper rifle,” the department’s press service noted.
A few days after the crime described, Aliyev killed another civilian on the street, shooting him in the head with a machine gun. Also, at the end of March 2022, he gave the order to his colleagues Ruslan Kolodyazhny and Anatoly Stronko to shoot two unarmed civilians, the press service said.
“During the preliminary investigation, Aliyev did not admit his guilt and denied his involvement in the commission of crimes. The court sentenced him to life imprisonment to be served in a special regime colony. Previously, Lukyanenko was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Kolodyazhny and Stronko to long terms of imprisonment,” the press service said in a statement.
As Regnum reported earlier, in November 2023, the Supreme Court of the DPR passed a verdict against 27-year-old UAF marine Ivan Taran, who shot seven civilians in Mariupol. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
In December 2023, the court found Ukrainian Armed Forces Marine Corps soldier Dmitry Shalar guilty of shooting civilians in Mariupol and sentenced him to life imprisonment in a special regime colony.
Text taken from the Telegram channel of Russian historian Alexey Isaev
This is an exceedingly rare and welcome glimpse into Soviet artillery use/tactics in the relatively obscure Winter War of 1939.
[ColonelCassad] On today's stream with O.N. Kiselev on Tactics, a question arose about ammunition consumption during the Soviet-Finnish war. I'll give you a little information.
Let's start with the main ridge of the Red Army artillery. During the entire Soviet-Finnish war, 152mm rounds for howitzer-cannons ML-20 model 1937 fired 288,000. How can December 1939 and January-February and half of March 1940 be compared?
I propose in the summer of 1943. Then, too, there was a pause for a month and no longer the shell hunger of the first winter war. The numbers of the fronts roughly corresponded to the group deployed against the Finns.
The Voronezh Front fired 59,700 of the same 152mm rounds for the ML-20 in June-July-August 1943, at the height of the Kursk Bulge, and the Central Front fired 78,500 in the same three months. Even as a duet they don’t live up to the Finnish campaign.
Soviet artillery fired 47,500 203mm rounds, the Voronezh Front for June-August 1943 - 6,800, the Central Front - 7,400. Well, OK, after all, the fortifications in the summer of 1943 were attacked more simply, the field defenses.
In the Finnish war was fired 487,700 pieces of 152mm howitzer rounds of all types, the Voronezh one - 27,600 pieces (due to the gradual disappearance of the artillery systems of this class themselves, and the D-1s were just appearing). The central front fired 67,300 rounds of 152mm howitzers. The difference is impressive. The Russian D-1 howitzer was the forerunner to the modern Russian D-10 152mm howitzer.
122mm howitzers fired 889,000 units against the Finns, the Central Front during the specified time interval of the summer of 1943 277,300 units, the Voronezh Front 169,800 units.
But in terms of smaller calibers, the fronts of the summer of 1943 covered the Soviet-Finnish sheep like a bull. Soviet artillery fired 881,500 rounds of 76.2 mm divisional guns against the Finns. During the indicated three months, the Central Front fired 1,240,000 rounds to the divisions, the Voronezh Front 975,300. The Zis-3 76.2mm divisional field gun was the best light field gun of the war in terms of reliability and range.
So the Red Army then, in the “unfamous war,” could more freely use artillery ammunition, especially heavy artillery.
Text taken from a Telegram post by multi_XAM
[ColonelCassad] By the end of January 2024, which in the Western press is associated with the beginning of the “Winter Campaign” of the Russian Armed Forces, in a number of directions the military operations were able to move beyond the format of a positional deadlock. Despite the objective difficulties, we managed to break through the enemy’s defenses in the Kharkov and Donetsk-Lugansk operational directions. This is facilitated by effective work to suppress enemy fire positions, which is carried out in conditions of wild limits on ammunition.
In this regard, the focus of our attention was the review of the OSINT research group Frontelligence Insight - #FI, dedicated to current issues of counterbattery warfare in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the previous review of materials #FI, we noted that the experts of this group analyze the situation at the front, relying on OSINT sources, as well as aerial photography data from commercial satellites.
As #FI notes, in 2022 - early 2023, the Russian Armed Forces predominantly kept artillery in static positions, rarely changing the places where guns were deployed, since the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not have serious capabilities in terms of counterbattery warfare. The situation changed with the beginning of Ukraine’s use of means to suppress our firing positions. These are mainly high-precision strikes from the M142 HIMARS MLRS and FPV drones. The supply of artillery ammunition from South Korea with the assistance of the United States played a significant role.
Today, #FI records a decline in the artillery activity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, explaining this by a “starvation of shells” in the troops, which is also accompanied by the concentration of artillery of the Russian Armed Forces on the line of combat contact. This does not mean Ukraine’s complete loss of the ability to conduct counter-battery warfare.
Let us add on our own that along almost the entire length of the LBS, the enemy widely uses counter-battery reconnaissance equipment - the AN/TPQ-50 radar (USA). We observe them most concentratedly in the Bakhmut (Artemovsky), Krasno-Limansky, Svatovsky and Kupyansky operational-tactical directions. However, #FI notes, in conditions of shortage of ammunition, even with the availability of effective counter-battery reconnaissance means, the task of counter-battery warfare cannot be solved.
This gives priority to the advancing forces of the Russian army. In this regard, in the Western expert community there is an opinion that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are gradually losing initiative at the front. Regarding the role of FPV drones, #FI notes the low effectiveness of their use as a means of counter-battery warfare, since artillery batteries are usually located at a distance of 15-20 km from the front line, which makes them inaccessible to most small FPVs unless they are involved in echelon with relay drones that amplify the signal.
Also, #FI notes the widespread use of electronic warfare equipment by the Russian Armed Forces, which significantly reduces the effectiveness of the use of FPV drones at such distances, even with signal amplification.
The potential introduction of ground-launched small-diameter ammunition (GLSDB) into the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as Ukraine’s production of its own 155mm 2S22 Bogdan howitzers (currently there are 30 units in the Ukrainian Armed Forces), could become a turning point in the development of counter-battery warfare. However, #FI evaluates these factors as hypothetical.
In general, the #FI team predicts an increase in the problems of counter-battery warfare in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This can reduce the effectiveness of the enemy's counteraction to our artillery. Although the situation cannot be called catastrophic, according to #FI estimates, this gives the Russian Armed Forces the opportunity to inflict significant damage on Ukraine, undermining the confidence of Western partners in the ability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to maintain a strategic defense.
In the title photo there is a damaged roof of the Polish 155 mm self-propelled gun "Crab". The mesh partially protected the car after the arrival of a kamikaze UAV.
[Breitbart] Defense Minister Dong Jun of China reportedly declared that Beijing would “not change or abandon [its] established policy” in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine this week – a full-throated endorsement presenting a shift from the Communist Party’s prior attempts to remain “neutral” in the conflict.
The Russian state outlet RT reported that Dong made the remark during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Shoigu on Wednesday. Dong’s meeting with Shoigu marked his debut on the international stage, as communist dictator Xi Jinping appointed him to the position of defense minister on December 29. His predecessor, Li Shangfu, disappeared without explanation in August and subsequently lost his position in October, leaving China with no defense minister for two months. Li’s whereabouts, or why he disappeared, remain a mystery at press time.
Dong used his first prominent appearance as defense minister to endorse the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which approaches its second anniversary in late February.
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[ColonelCassad] Information has appeared in the media about the work of the Swiss NGO Doctors Without Borders
...also known in the original French as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). They are not as lily white as they would like the world to think...
in Rostov, which may possibly be engaged in espionage in the front-line territories.
The official mission of Doctors Without Borders is quite noble - medical assistance to civilians in emergency situations.
However, the organization's trail is more than scandalous. The founder of Doctors Without Borders, Bernard Kushner, has long been accused of organizing a large-scale trade in the organs of kidnapped Serbs during the Kosovo war and other businesses under the guise of humanitarian work.
NGOs were already accused of espionage for Western states: the so-called. doctors collected intelligence information in combat areas. The organization has sophisticated means of communication, a system of encryption and destruction of documentation, which is hardly necessary for humanitarian activities.
Moreover, Kushner managed to combine the posts of head of the largest humanitarian NGO and special representative of the UN Secretary General in Kosovo, and later became head of the French Foreign Ministry (2007-2010).
Coincidence or not, Kushner found himself at the head of health care reform at the Agency for the Modernization of Ukraine, created in 2015. On its basis, the enslaving “Ukraine Restoration Fund” later appeared.
In 2014, Kushner opened a branch of Doctors Without Borders in Donbass, which operated under a Ukrainian license.
A year later, the NGO was expelled from the DPR. Advisor to the head of the republic, Yan Gagin, said that the so-called doctors collected information and recruited employees among the civilian population.
Now the office of Doctors Without Borders has been noticed in Rostov, and its employees are contacting local volunteers to inquire about the location of temporary accommodation centers for refugees and their number.
Local media write that another volunteer organization, “Rostov Helps,” collaborated with the NGO, and posts in support of FBK were allegedly found on its curator Anastasia’s social networks.
In particular, “Rostov helps” distributed gifts to families with children from 3 to 14 years old who left the former Ukrainian territories. However, the obligatory condition was the presentation of documents (passport, birth certificate and confirmation of the date of arrival in the Russian Federation after the start of the SVO). This practice may be the usual collection of information about those who moved to the Russian Federation for the transfer of the so-called Ukraine.
Such organizations also provide psychologists who may have similar goals.
In general, it is not yet very clear why such a scandalous NGO has been working in Russia all this time, much less penetrating the front-line territories. By the way, there is even an advertisement on the website with vacancies about finding an employee for the Moscow office of an NGO that became inactive only a few days ago.
Apparently, investigative actions are ongoing, the details of which are unknown. Nevertheless, the fact that FBK’s indirect projects are likely to be involved in working with dubious Western NGOs does not seem unusual.
Let us remember how the coordinators of their “Teachers Alliance” project openly admitted that they handed over to the Ukrainian special services the personal data of Russian teachers who went to work in the liberated territories. FBK also has a similar project “Alliance of Doctors”.
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If the MSF does not develop a better class of patients, they will become known as Médecins Sans Défense Aérienne. Might want to start wearing a hard hat along with the white lab coat. And stay away from windows.
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.
