Iran has invested millions of dollars in an effort to ramp up the deployment of an advanced air defense network in Syria, amid repeated attempts by Israel to target Iranian sites and shipments of weapons to its regional proxies, according to a report.

Citing an unnamed intelligence source from a nation allied with the United States, Newsweek reported that Iran over the past two years has been “promoting the deployment of aerial defense capabilities on its behalf in Syria at a cost of tens of millions of dollars in order to deal with the Israeli airstrikes.”

The source said the deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force, Brig. Gen. Fereydoun Mohammadi Saghaei, is leading the air defense project.
Israel has staged hundreds of strikes on targets in Syria over the years but rarely acknowledges or discusses specific operations.

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"It is becoming increasingly difficult to agree on the creation of a nuclear safety zone around the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant," said IAEA Director General Raphael Grossi. 

According to him, the dialogue has become more complicated because "the Russian and Ukrainian militaries have started taking part in it."

It is also known that Grossi will visit Ukraine next week and meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky, Prime Minister Shmygal, and Foreign Minister Kuleba. After that, Grossi plans to visit Russia.

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Warehouses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces burst into flames after being hit by Russian artillery. As a result of the attack, Ukrainian servicemen, ammunition, and other equipment were destroyed. 

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⚡️The first important task of Gerasimov as commander will be to push the front line to such an extent that the Ukrainian military can no longer shell Donetsk and other large cities of the DPR and LPR - State Duma Deputy, General Sobolev

Zin Note: This needed to be done a long time ago.

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦🎞 Chronicle of the special military operation: the events of January 11, 2023

▪️For the second day in a row, Ukrainian formations are shelling the border areas of the Belgorod region.

As a result of attacks on Shebekino and Stary Khutor, residential buildings were damaged. 6 people were injured, including severe ones.

▪️Over the past day, the situation on the Kupyansky sector of the front has not undergone significant changes.

Russian artillery is conducting concentrated fire at the places of concentration of manpower and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

▪️In Soledar, detachments of PMC "Wagner" are cleaning up the boiler on the western outskirts of the city. Some Ukrainian units surrender.

To the west, Russian troops are storming the defensive positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the Sol railway station.

▪️To the north of Bakhmut, Russian paratroopers continue to conduct fierce battles in the vicinity of Krasnaya Gora and clean up the surrounding territories.

At the same time, an offensive is developing in the direction of Blagodatny, one of the last fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Soledar.

▪️The battle for Bakhmut continues. Detachments of PMC "Wagner" are engaged in heavy street fighting in the eastern quarters of the city.

To the south, Russian forces are storming enemy positions in the central regions of Kleshcheevka.

▪️The Ukrainian command again used the American HIMARS MLRS to shell the civilian population.

As a result of a missile attack in the rear village of Chernukhino, several residential buildings were destroyed.

▪️Ukrainian formations continue indiscriminate shelling of cities and towns of the Donetsk agglomeration.

In the capital of the republic, the Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts again came under enemy fire: several apartment buildings were damaged.

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❗️Ukraine held military exercises near the Belarusian border

Reuters reports that Kyiv troops practiced street fighting, machine gun shooting, armored vehicle driving and hostage rescue in towns close to the border.

Where exactly the exercises took place is not reported.

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Summary of January 11, 2023

Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin announced the complete liberation of Soledar by the forces of PMC Wagner; during the assault, up to 500 Ukrainian fighters were destroyed. The underground utilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are being cleaned up. https://t.me/Slavyangrad/28482

South-west of Soledar, units of the Airborne Forces are conducting an offensive in the area of the settlements, Krasnaya Gora and Paraskovievka.

In the Artemovsk(Bakhmut) direction, Opytnoye,located in the south of Bakhmut was liberated.PMC Wagner fully captured the village of Opytnoye. 

Fighting continues in Maryinka.According to the latest data, almost 80–90% of Mariyanka is controlled by the Russians; Ukrainians have now occupied the outskirts of the town.

Ukrainian forces are being drawn to the Orekhovo-Gulyaipole sector in the Zaporozhye region.

In the Belgorod region of Russia, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled the village of Stary Khutor, Valuysky urban district.

The Ukrainians fired 90 rounds of ammunition at the residential areas of the DPR. Donetsk, Gorlovka, Staromikhaylovka, and Aleksandrovka were shelled. One civilian was killed and two were wounded.

In the LPR, the AFU attacked the civilian sector of Chernukhino using the MLRS HIMARS; 6 missiles were fired. 

Yesterday in Lviv, the heads of Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine signed a joint declaration on sending air defence systems and 10 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. Britain also announced the supply of Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine.

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The launch of two AGM-88 HARM anti-radar missiles from a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter looks like this.

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Looking through obituaries of destroyed servicemen of the 46th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade of the AFU, which was defeated near Soledar. An ideological Bandera member with the call sign "Kiyanin" tells the truth about this Ukrainian unit: "propaganda-pumped new meat, thrown into the breach." Among those liquidated: a librarian from Kryvyi Rih, a sound engineer, a Ukrainian mixed martial arts champion, head of the party cell of the European Solidarity Party in Kamyanets-Podilsky, an economics professor from Lviv, a choir soloist, a producer, a history teacher from Ternopil, etc... There are some hardened, well-trained Banderovites entrenched in Artemovsk, there will be tough battles to come.

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Roaring foreign mercenary Mark Lindqvist, who went to Ukraine to "extinguish the Russians," cried on camera. He misses his friends who have already gone to meet Bandera.  I wish you would have stayed away from this war and stayed on your ranch.

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Continuation of the battle from Sherwood Forest to Kremennaya. All is well with the assault.

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‼️🇷🇺DPR Special Forces spies spotted a Ukrainian sabotage group and hit it with an ATGM

The next day, the enemy again stepped on the same rake: a new group tried to follow the old route and was again stopped. After this, the command chased the evacuation group to retrieve the dead. The outcome was predictable - an anti-tank missile also hit them.


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To go over there again ?! - "yes, Mikyla, said Oleg. "But we went 15 times; We were always blasted...." Oleg shushes him. "That's precisely what the ingenuity of the plan is. You don't understand this thing. Those Ruskies won't expect to repeat what we did 15 times so far..."

Soledar - the situation on the morning of 01/12/23

Our troops, having finished cleaning the "surface" of Soledar.

Meanwhile, the pressure on the western outskirts of the city does not stop, for which the enemy desperately clings to the units he has. For example, mine No. 7, which we attacked, is protected by the SBU combined border detachment.

There are also fierce battles for the railway. Sol station. Our artillery and aviation are doing a lot of work on the enemy's close rear areas in this area. And therefore, despite the enemy's desperate resistance, there is progress and there is reason to hope that today the resistance at the indicated points will be broken.

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Naval News: three Russian submarines carrying Kalibr missiles left the port of Novorossiysk

Also, according to the publication, Russia withdrew the landing ship "Pyotr Morgunov" from the port.

❗️The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine warns of the threat of rocket attack on the entire territory of Ukraine.

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"Isn't it time to retreat from Artemovsk before it's too late?" - The Western press is rocking the zrada

The Wall Street Journal writes that Ukraine has suffered heavy losses in Artemovsk and Soledar, quickly draining the forces of several brigades. The publication noted that the capture of Artemovsk paved the way for the liberation of the part of the Donetsk people's republic occupied by the Kiev regime.

At the same time, the authors write: Western and some Ukrainian officials, soldiers, and analysts are increasingly concerned that Kiev has allowed itself to be drawn into the battle for Artemovsk on Russian terms, losing strength in a stubborn fight for a city of limited strategic importance. Some say it would make sense to retreat to a new defensive line on the heights west of Bakhmut. In contrast, such a retreat can still be organized in a coordinated way, preserving the combat power of the Ukrainian military.

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Lithuania will give Ukraine antiaircraft guns from the 1950s

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has solemnly announced that Ukraine will get military support from Vilnius after all.

The Baltics decided to "go with trumps" and splurged on 50s Bofors L70 automatic anti-aircraft guns made in Sweden.

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The mass slaughter of Ukrainians could put Zelensky's bust in the Capitol

This is the proposal made by Republican Senator Joe Kilson.
He is an ardent supporter of military support for Ukraine.

Only Joe Kilson's election campaign sponsors are America's largest defense companies.

The coincidences are not coincidental. A few more months and Zelensky's photo will be pinned on various parts of the body by the US military lobbyists. And more than one more body part will want to be immortalized in Capitol in gratitude for a great deal.


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A new, but already rapidly filling, a section of the cemetery of annihilated AFU soldiers in Zaporizhzhia. They are buried already outside the fence of the old graveyard.

*It's hard to see the kid in this situation. Zelensky...

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The enemy was intercepted by a vigilant quadcopter operator.
As they attempted to change their location, the AFU suffered casualties in manpower.
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