An international tribunal or its equivalent may start its work in the summer of 2023 to hold the Russian Federation accountable for war crimes in Ukraine. US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland has said this.

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Russian troops have killed Lieutenant-Colonel Vitaliy Vlasenko, a senior officer of the Special Forces of the Ukrainian State Border Service, near Kremenna. A native of the Volyn Region.

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🇷🇺🚀 Surface—launched hypersonic missile "Zircon" will be adopted by the Russian Navy in 2023 - manufacturer

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Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manh: "As soon as the allies extended their little finger to him (Zelensky), he already demanded a whole hand." Demanding the West supply combat aircraft and long-range missiles soon after receiving the promise of tanks sounds more like blackmail.

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The sad fate of the Poltava Terodefense

"Appeal of the remnants of the 1st company of the 144th territorial defense battalion of the 116th brigade to the Commander-in-Chief.

At the time of the large-scale offensive and armed aggression of Russia, I and hundreds of men and women joined the ranks of the 144th Territorial Defense Battalion. We were sympathetic to the lack of VVK, the lack of adequate weapons and uniforms. From February to December, about 5 shootings with AKs and training in tactics took place in my unit. Although, according to papers, we almost every day had fire training for the development of different types of weapons.

In January, we were sent to the combat zone in the Soledar operational-tactical formation. The first combat clash took place with elements of an assault, for which we were not prepared. We were without communication with the command of the mortar battery, we suffered losses in the dead and wounded. We encountered tank fire, which broke up our group.

After 2 days, without proper medical assistance, the remnants of my platoon and other platoons were again sent to the line of contact with combat contact and direct artillery shelling, which did not allow us to raise our heads. We were sent there wounded, shell-shocked, without providing the things that we had lost. We again had the wounded, and the condition of the previously wounded worsened. And besides, our base was destroyed by artillery fire.

Some of us were left without winter things, without everything that we had on at the time of the operation, that is, bulletproof vest, unloading, machine gun. Some of us have in our hands hospital certificates about the need to be released from duty for 5 days.

None of us refused and does not refuse to perform combat missions, most of us are simply not combat-ready due to injuries, lack of support, communication and coordination."

Not in vain the lads refused to go under Bakhmut.

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The United States continues to enrich itself on the Ukrainian conflict.

It has long been no secret that the United States regularly profits from the armed conflicts of other countries. The Ukrainian crisis was no exception, due to which in 2022 the export of American weapons increased sharply.

Only according to official data from the Ministry of Defense in 2022, its volume exceeded $51.9 billion, which is almost $17 billion more than last year.

In 2021, US arms exports amounted to $34.8 billion. Thus, the annual growth was 49%. One of the largest buyers of weapons from the United States was Germany, which ordered 35 F-35s and other weapons worth $8.4 billion. Poland ordered 250 American Abrams tanks worth $6 billion. Other major European customers were Bulgaria, the United Kingdom and Spain.

Buy American weapons and outside of Europe. The largest order so far has been placed by the Indonesian government with 36 F-15IDs. Many Western analysts and military experts believe that the main reason for the growth of US exports in the Asia-Pacific region was the US aggressive policy against China, which is systematically presented by the US government in a negative light. Thanks to this, Australia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have concluded several arms deals with the United States.

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❗️ About commanders playing war

We have repeatedly written about the problems in the Russian army, the folly of some commanders and chiefs, including those on the front line, as well as rampant bureaucracy and chaos in some units of the RF Armed Forces.

Unfortunately, at the moment there are no prerequisites for a significant improvement in the situation. In many units and formations, the “pre-war” atmosphere still reigns, a bunch of papers and not very useful orders and orders are still multiplying.

🔻Over the past few days, most parts of the Southern Military District have been conducting special tactical training to bring military units to the highest levels of combat readiness.

The event itself is very important, since, according to its idea, it should help in learning and assimilation of theoretical information regarding actions in case of an alarm or the outbreak of war.

However, really important aspects, such as the practical training of actions in the event of a missile threat or repelling an attack on a military unit, and so on, were actually bypassed and remained only on paper.

Now the training of personnel consists of a bunch of unnecessary formations, checks of tags and uniforms, in addition to the aimless printing of hundreds of various documents, the meaning of which is conditional and, in fact, of no real importance.

🔻It even comes to outright idiocy - in one of the units, the main task of which is to conduct reconnaissance, the personnel were engaged in laying out pencils in the order of colors determined by the commander.

That is, the specialized intelligence unit prints tags, checks the expiration date of the stew and lays out pencils on the parade ground instead of doing what they were prepared for and what is really important now.

🔻We do not dispute the importance of the educational process, nor the need for drill training in the army as an element of instilling discipline in military personnel, but all this should be beneficial, especially in places bordering war zones.

The special operation in Ukraine revealed the existing problems in the ranks of the armed forces, primarily in the command staff of full-time units. The experience of participating in hostilities was to be used to eliminate some errors in the management of personnel and the training of subordinates.

And learning should be beneficial. So far, it turns out that instead of actually practicing actions in conditions adapted to an external threat, military personnel are simply engaged in bureaucratic aspects due to the fact that there is no time for practice.

About how to act in the event of an attack or a missile attack, people know only on paper, and the collection and receipt of data about the enemy is lame, because the scouts are busy with the wrong things.

And the farther away from the front line, the more staffing, the useless control of the services of protecting state secrets, which only harms professional activity, as well as the extravagance of bosses and commanders, intensifies. And the longer the special operation goes on, the more bad thoughts arise in the units relatively close to the front.

"Colonels are playing war" but they don't realize she's around.

Zin Note: I wouldn't pass this along were it not from Rybar, but we must give you a full picture of what is going on, be it good, bad, or ugly.

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hypersonic missile "Dagger" on the suspension of the MiG-31K fighter

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Comparison of the weak points of tanks.

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In the Bakhmut direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine transferred two more motorized infantry battalions to the Paraskovievka area.

The fights are hard.

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We'll thwart their spring plan

📝 Journalist Yury Podolyaka on the supply of military equipment:

▪️Our aviation and artillery are actively working in Ugledar. First, there must be a fire defeat of the enemy. Our heavy equipment will support the infantry, then we need to remove the snipers from the roofs. And only then will begin more active preparations for the assault. Carbon is important because we are taking away enemy reserves.

▪️As practice has shown, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are throwing reserves here from under Artyomovsk. Either the enemy does not have a strategic reserve, or he is being cherished for a rainy day. Now the entire front line is rippling, our troops are trying to go everywhere. Therefore, any local defeat incurs heavy losses for the Ukrainians.

▪️For Kyiv, the loss of 5-10 thousand people is already critical. Until the enemy trains reserves for the spring campaign, we will keep moving forward. We now need to inflict such a defeat on the Armed Forces of Ukraine that they will already begin to spend reserves to eliminate breakthroughs. We, in turn, need to prepare our reserves so that the Ukrainians cannot even launch an offensive.

▪️The winter offensive campaign no longer took place, because the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated near Soledar and suffered heavy losses near Artyomovsk. Stocks preparing for the winter were used up.

▪️Those columns of tanks that show are not related to deliveries. The Americans will send 31 Abrams. It must be understood that these are tanks produced in the early 90s from storage. They still need to be put on alert. The Americans will provide the tanks with minimal plating and armor. It is obvious that sooner or later the technology will still be in our hands. It is important for the United States to convince Kyiv to go on the offensive. There are still about 3.5 thousand tanks in storage, they can be delivered for a long time. However, in terms of level, they are like our T-72 and T-80.

▪️“Leopards” will be delivered faster, many tanks will come from Poland, Germany and Spain. Poland announced the delivery of 60 tanks. The position of the Western countries is disastrous. They don't have enough technology anymore.

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There are fierce battles on the outskirts of Ugledar, Russian troops managed to gain a foothold in the southeast and east of the city, said Yan Gagin, adviser to the acting head of the DPR. On the air of the 60 Minutes program, he noted that a significant part of the territory of Ugledar is the industrial zone, which gives the defending enemy certain advantages. “You have to understand that there will be no quick offensive here, but we are working. And, I think, soon enough we will know about the liberation of this city,” Gagin said.

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