62 percent of Turks consider Russia a friend, 73 percent are sure that relations with us should be good. Americans, by contrast, are considered a hostile state by almost 90 percent.

Seeing these figures in our media, at first I blinked for a long time, and then went to dig the source. Naryl. All the figures in it are in place, no one has distorted anything. On December 30-31, almost 2,500 people were polled in 24 provinces according to all sociological canons, sociologists themselves are somewhat surprised by the result.

There is not and cannot be a complete coincidence of our interests with Turkish ones, as I have said more than once - and this neighbor has been and will remain difficult in many respects. But Turkish sovereignty itself as a phenomenon is inconceivable without a cornerstone in the form of building relations with us without regard to the opinion of the white master; let Turkey knock it out under any pretext - it will lose its subjectivity right there and not the fact that it is reversible. Not to mention the direct and poorly quantifiable economic consequences of such a reversal, since the memory of the recent is fresh.

That's about all this the vast majority of respondents, presumably, had in mind.

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Ukraine lacks Soviet-era transformers to rebuild its energy system, Ukrenergo has said.
According to the company's head, Western equipment is not suitable for Ukraine's power⚡ infrastructure

Ukraine cannot rebuild power grids without Soviet-era equipment, Volodymyr Kudrytskyy, head of Ukrenergo, told the Financial Times. The 750 kV transformers, each weighing up to 200 tonnes, are particularly lacking.

Although some have been sourced from former communist countries such as Lithuania, most of the destroyed transformers need to be rebuilt.

"Most of Ukraine's grid uses the old Soviet system. It operates at higher voltages than in the European Union, making it incompatible with most Western equipment," the article said.
"In the first eight months of the war, Ukraine was not so badly affected because we had a large stock of transformers," Kudritsky said. "But now they are badly needed."

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In the temporarily occupied Konstantinovka DPR, black smoke rises after two strikes.

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The Bundeswehr is looking for "Marders" for Kyiv

Judging by the reports of the German press, the Bundeswehr cannot yet quickly assemble the 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles promised to Kyiv (and it needs them by the end of January in order to be at the front by spring). Formally, they have about 100 units in stock, but it seems that for the most part they are not in working order.

The problem, of course, will be solved, but the time factor is extremely important here. Kyiv does not have it.

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Ukraine asked Georgia to return Buk missile launchers handed over by Ukraine to Georgia in 2008, but Georgia has refused, the Ukrainian chargé d'affaires in Tbilisi said.

He also noted that Kiev had asked Georgia for the Javelin systems handed over by Washington (the USA was allegedly ready to replace them with new ones), but Tbilisi refused to do so as well.

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⚡️There are battles for the city administration in Soledar — Prigozhin

The head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that the “musicians” are now fighting fierce battles in the very center of Soledar. As the press service reported, right now there is a battle for the building of the city administration.

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⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ The RF denunciation of the Convention on Criminal Liability for Corruption in no way undermines Russia's fight against this evil. This was announced by Dmitry Peskov.

Other statements:

▪️ Peskov about rumors about a new wave of partial mobilization: no need to attach importance to the data of Telegram channels, the source is the authorities.

▪️ Peskov called the reports of the Ukrainian side that Dmitry Kozak is in contact with European politicians about a truce with Ukraine according to the "Korean version" a "duck".

▪️Clemency of prisoners in the Russian Federation is possible only by presidential decree.

The Kremlin absolutely trusts the information of the Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special operation.

▪️Moscow strongly condemns the actions of the instigators of the unrest in Brazil and absolutely supports President Lulu da Silva.

▪️Contacts between Putin and Macron were useful at the previous stage, although now there are pauses in the dialogue.

▪️Supplies of French wheeled tanks to Ukraine will not change anything and will not interfere with achieving the goals of a special military operation.

▪️The Kremlin does not think anything good about Smolyaninov's anti-Russian statements, but the opinion of law enforcement officers on this matter is more important.

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❗️❗️❗️❗️ They knocked out all the upper teeth, interrogated them for 10 days, didn’t let them sleep and eat, beat them and tied them up - all these bullying went through our fighters released from Ukrainian captivity. They told the Russian investigators about the terrible fanaticism of the nationalists.

Employees of the UK (investigative committee, not that UK) will record all the facts of abuse of prisoners and give a legal assessment of each such case.

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The current situation in the Soledar area

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For Artemovsk:

Russian paratroopers carry out reconnaissance and assault activities in the Vyemka-Belogorovka area in order to drive the APU into the boiler.

At night, the Russian Armed Forces in the Yakovlevka area destroyed the enemy and captured one of the lines. The advance along the front was 2.5 km.

On the outskirts of Paraskoviyivka, aircraft destroyed the AN / TRQ-50 radar of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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The fighting for the city administration building in Soledar.

The Wagner PMC units are currently fighting in the centre of the city.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine is no longer in trend

While the discount is 50%, and in the spring these T-shirts will be paid extra.

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The Armed Forces of Ukraine are gathering a large grouping of forces near Ugledar and want to attack first - Russian troops are also preparing for the start of the active phase of hostilities

According to Readovka from sources on the ground, the advanced units of the DPR are in a state of high combat readiness in the Ugledar direction. Forces are waiting for who will move forward first. The offensive will begin any day, artillery duels are in full swing. In turn, Ukraine has pulled together a large group of troops near Vuhledar, and it is likely that the Armed Forces of Ukraine intend to go on the offensive first.

“Now it’s frozen, it will start at any moment. Ukry brought troops to full combat readiness. The slush interfered with both sides, the equipment was buried with the tower, now it froze, and the front is about to thunder, ”one of the combat commanders who was at the scene shared with Readovka.

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British intelligence has found out where the Russian Federation hides modern Su-57s, which it uses to strike at Ukraine.

This is stated in the new summary of British intelligence, published on Twitter by the British Ministry of Defense.

The latest commercially available images show five Su-57s located at the air base in Akhtubinsk, in the Astrakhan region, where the 929th flight test center is located.

This is not participation in hostilities? Or is only infantry in the trenches counted? Isn't satellites that produce such information the most legitimate target for the Russian Aerospace Forces?

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⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️The RF Armed Forces inflicted fire damage on accumulations of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction, the enemy's DRG was destroyed. This was reported in the Russian Defense Ministry.

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