⚡️⚡️Zaporozye front, present day.

The most important prerequisite for an effective sniper is stealth and surprise.

For this purpose, firing points have to be set up in places where the enemy will least expect the sniper to appear.

The downside of such tactics - is extremely inconvenient conditions for observation and accurate fire, as in the video.

And the shooter can sit like that for hours, sometimes even enlisting the help of fellow snipers who support his back while he shoots to stabilize him in space.

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Valeriy Gerasimov, head of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, has said that practically the entire collective West confronts Russia in Ukraine and that it is experiencing the highest intensity of combat operations in Russian history.

According to Gerasimov, the country's mobilization system was not fully prepared for the current challenges, so the identified problems had to be eliminated during the mobilization process. However, nothing is surprising here - our mobilization system has not been unpacked like this since the days of Comrade Stalin. Naturally, it has managed to "rust" over the decades (not to mention the consequences of perestroika and the "holy 90s").

"Therefore, we had to fix everything on the fly. But as a result of concerted and professional actions by officers of the General Staff in cooperation with the authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, 300,000 citizens who were in reserve were called up for military service," Gerasimov said.

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Poland's former foreign minister has admitted that Poland has the plan to partition Ukraine by occupying the western part of Ukraine. Still, it was allegedly relevant only for the first ten days of the SMO.
Earlier, Poland called this a fiction of Russian propaganda, but now it turns out that this is by no means fiction. The existence of such plans is acknowledged.
The Polish ruling clique is already irritatedly chastising the former minister for being too glib.
Of course, if these plans existed then, they live now.

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🇺🇸USA wants to send Ukraine  ATACMS missiles for strikes on Crimea, The News Dept. has said.

The chairman of the US House Committee on Foreign Relations, Michael McCaul, has said that the US side is obliged to hand over operational and tactical ballistic missiles ATACMS for the needs of the Ukrainian army.

According to the politician, this way, the Ukrainians can "attack Crimea." McCaul added that "senior advisers" and Ukrainian officials had already spoken about the importance of attacking the Russian peninsula with ATACMS missiles.

McCaul condemned US President Biden's team for refusing to hand over the missiles to Ukrainian forces. The congressman called it cowardice, saying such actions were based on "false fears of escalation" and only served to prolong the armed conflict.


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Serbian President Vucic on the current agenda of the West.

"What worries me is that there is no longer a rational approach to solving problems. I saw this at the meeting with the Big Five. No matter what I said and no matter what facts I gave, no one wanted to listen to me.
Reason no longer plays any role. They have their own agenda, and that is the defeat of Russia, and along the way, anyone who gets in their way will be mopped up" (c) Vucic


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On Artemovsk:

Offensives were launched in the areas of Soledar - Nikolayevka, Soledar - Krasnaya Gora, and Bakhmutskoye - Yagodnoye, taking over the lines and company points.

The Wagner PMCs continue to advance north, thus preparing to take Artemovsk (Bakhmut) in a ring, with the enemy abandoning their positions under fire.

The Soledar undergrounds continue to undergo stages of mopping up.

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🇫🇷 President of France, Emmanuel Macron, has not ruled out the possibility of supplying Leclerc tanks to 🇺🇦Украину, but under three conditions, BFMTV reports

At a press conference on Sunday night, alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Emmanuel Macron said that "nothing is ruled out" regarding the supply of Leclerc heavy battle tanks to Ukraine.

"Regarding Leclerc, I have asked the Minister of the Armed Forces to work on this issue. Nothing is ruled out," the French president said.

However, he specified that the decision would be based on three criteria. The first is "that it must not be escalatory." The second is "that it can provide real and effective support" to Ukraine, and the third is that it should not weaken France's "defense capabilities."

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The special operation, 23 January. Main:

▪️ The village of Krasnopolye has been liberated in the DNR, the Russian Defence Ministry said;

▪️ Ukrainian troops knocked out from the village of Kamenskoye in Zaporozhye Region, local authorities said;

▪️ Fighting is going on in the eastern and southern parts of Artemovsk; soon, it will be possible to talk about the operational encirclement of Ukrainian troops in the city, Akhmat commander Alaudinov said;

▪️ Russian units practically control important heights in the vicinity of the liberated village of Kleshcheyevka; this gives additional opportunities for an offensive on Artemovsk, Pushilin said;

▪️ SVR head Naryshkin said that the Ukrainian army is stockpiling Western arms and ammunition on the territories of nuclear power plants;

▪️ Russia is not abandoning negotiations on Ukraine, but the longer the West avoids them, the more complex the situation will become, Lavrov said;

▪️ No conditions for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine now exist either de facto or de jure, Peskov said;

▪️ The next 2-3 weeks will be decisive for the situation in Ukraine, says European Council head Michel;

▪️ Poland's former foreign minister Sikorski has said that in the initial stage of the Russian special operation, Warsaw considered the option of dividing Ukraine;

▪️ Germany will find itself in international isolation if it does not agree to supply Ukraine with Leopard tanks, the Polish deputy foreign minister has said;

▪️ Estonia to give Ukraine all its 155-mm howitzers, Estonian ambassador to Kiev says;

▪️ Pentagon says it expects to deliver Bradley BMPs to Ukraine in the coming weeks.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦Russia has changed the tactics of its offensives - deputy head of Ukrainian intelligence

According to the deputy head of the Ukrainian intelligence service, Vadym Skibitskyy, Russian units are no longer marching in columns without cover and air defence, as it used to do at the beginning of the SMO; now 140-160 units comprising motorized rifle units, tanks, artillery, mortars and anti-tank weapons are created for assault actions.

The deputy head of the SDU noted that the Russian Army is changing the command and tactics of the units: "If a year ago it was BTGr, battalion tactical groups, now they have returned to the classic scheme - brigade, regiment, battalion."
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About time...

Military expert doubts NATO plans to attack Russia

NATO countries will not engage in a direct confrontation with Russia. Military expert Vasily Dandykin has expressed this opinion to the Go and See channel.

Earlier, RIA Novosti columnist Viktoria Nikiforova wrote in her article that European armies are preparing for an invasion of Russia after the Russian Armed Forces liberate Soledar.

💬"They, as Ramstein showed, want (to do it. - Ed.) with the hands of Ukrainians, supplying them with equipment, often not brand new," Dandykin said.

According to him, NATO countries will limit themselves to sending mercenaries to Ukraine, but not more.

💬"There is a grinding of reserves, resources, among them there are mercenaries dying, especially Poles, they are most of all. Well, I think they will not go themselves, absolutely not from the point of view of the official war, they will use what they have," the military expert said.

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