We stop the car in a lush forest lane. We continue on foot. To the left, 300 meters away, shells explode: "They are trying to reach our mortars", the attendants explain. On the right the artillery of the "musicians" working for suppression. And we walk along the path of the "dwarf forest", the height of which does not exceed the height of a human being. All the bushes and trees are cut down with metal. At first, I thought it was the "work" of shell splinters. Until we came up against two machine-gun points, from which the enemy was covering our attackers. It was frightening to imagine how dense the fire was. Here and there along the path, there were snow-covered piles of bodies of the AFU fighters. They are pulled out of broken bunkers and trenches and sent to Ukraine.Cargo-200 goes to the other side in the cargo columns. The casualties ratio is 1 of ours to 7 of the enemy's. Artemivsk meat grinder continues to gather its bloody harvest.

As always an excellent report by Alexander Kotz from near Bakhmut, highly recommended for reading!

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English translation of the text is so-so, but I think you can manage.

🇺🇦🙊In Cherkassy, civilians were peacefully celebrating a birthday in a cafe, but the military commissariat came with summonses and ruined everything.

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Drone of PMC "Wagner" burned two AFU soldiers in the middle of the work

The Wagnerians had to interrupt fighters of the "blue troops", dropping a projectile

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🇺🇦The wives and mothers of the captured missing servicemen of the 54th mechanized brigade staged a rally demanding that the authorities exchange prisoners or return the bodies of dead relatives❗️

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ATGM on a quad bike: special forces of "🅾️"  group fire at targets

Combat training in the SMO zone does not stop. ATGM crews are trained to effectively and quickly hit emerging targets. To do this, fighters use an ATV as a means of transportation. On it, they arrive at the firing line, prepare the complex for work, and open fire. After that, they quickly collapse the complex and leave the position.

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Over the Polish city of Lublin at this moment there are three American special aircraft at once, which, probably, ensure Biden's visit to Poland.

These are the RC-135W Rivet Joint electronic reconnaissance aircraft and a pair of E-3B Sentry early warning and control aircraft.

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Wagner PMCs entered Yagodnoe after the Ukrainians left Krasnaya Gora and Paraskovievka.

Now all efforts are directed to the Berkhovka-Yagodnoe line towards the reservoir.

An auxiliary strike is also launched in the direction of Dubovoye-Vasilyevka in order to secure the flank, take control of the roads from Bakhmut and limit the maneuver with reserves.

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Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Melnyk said that today "a surprise is being prepared in Kyiv."

According to him, on the eve of the anniversary of the aggression, in addition to "verbal support," Ukrainians will also see "the presence of our important, main partners in Kyiv."

"Let's wait," Miller called on the air of the telethon.

Recall that in Kyiv in the morning there are traffic jams, a number of streets are blocked. Social networks suggest that this is due to the arrival of foreign guests in the capital.

Later it became known about the arrival of the Israeli delegation to Kiev. However, given the scale of the events, it is possible that she was not the only one who came.

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The battle for Artemovsk - the agony of Berkhovka

Today, late in the evening and at night, there were reports of a breakthrough by PMC "Wagner" north of Artemovsk.

Our troops, using the disorganization of the enemy’s defense and occupation of the prevailing heights (during the battles for Paraskovievka), immediately reached the northern outskirts of Berkhovka, and were also able to break through the enemy’s front between this village and Yagodnoye, located to the south, and penetrate quite deeply in this direction (cutting the lines supplies to Berkhovka from the south).

Thus, the garrison of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Berkhovka is practically surrounded (they have a pond in the rear, and both roads are under close fire control of our units), the village is under crossfire and will probably be taken by our units today, after which the Armed Forces of Ukraine will try to organize defense at the last convenient line here ( along a small local river). True, taking into account today's frosts (and again, the control of the heights around by our units), this line is not so strong and is associated with heavy losses for the enemy in case of attempts to hold it.

And be that as it may, the capture of Berkhovka brings our units closer to the last supply route of the Armed Forces of Ukraine through Khromovo for another couple of kilometers, and now the last five are left to it from the north.

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“The Minsk agreements gave Ukraine more time to develop between 2014 and 2021. And now Ukraine can not only give an answer, but also get the necessary support. We have postponed the start of the war and received the necessary support.”

Vovan and Lexus, under the guise of Petro Poroshenko, talked with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and heard a lot of interesting things from her. For example, that Kyiv, in fact, has been preparing for a military conflict with Russia for seven years. And the main task today is the unity of the West, so European countries are constantly in contact with the United States.

At the end of the conversation, Merkel asked Poroshenko not to talk about their conversation in the media.

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🇺🇦🏴‍☠️The Armed Forces of Ukraine announced a drop in the enthusiasm of potential “square” mobiles

📌 The head of the press center of OK "South" Natalia Gumenyuk in an interview with Radio Liberty noted that there is a need for a mobilization resource in Ukraine, but people's enthusiasm is falling.

✏️ " Now there is a drop in enthusiasm among the category of the population, which has already realized for itself that it can fully coexist in civilian life even in war conditions and are in no hurry to come to the recruitment center ."

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Dmitry Peskov called the current relations between Russia and Moldova "very tense".

He also noted that the Moldovan authorities should be cautious in their assessments of the Transnistrian settlement.

Additionally:

Peskov: the increase in the level of trust in Putin to 79% is due, among other things, to the consolidation of society around the president at the current difficult moment.

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The famous swindler and Russophobe Mark Feygin reports that "Biden is in Kyiv." Feigin is a character of such a type that he can add at any moment that Biden in Kyiv is "with his soul."

There are no official confirmations or denials yet.

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Feigin is known for regular broadcasts with a former adviser to the President's Office, Arestovich.

At the same time, Feigin himself is not in Ukraine.

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Ukrainian channel Legitimny:

Biden in Kyiv will meet with Zelensky.
Both sides use this meeting for their own PR. The OP is sure that such a visit should raise the falling morale in Ukraine.

Zin Note: I don't see how a visit from this shell of a human being would raise anyone's morale...

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The crew of the BMP-2 "Berezhok" of the 237th airborne assault regiment of the 76th division of the Russian Airborne Forces works with a 30-mm cannon, AGS and machine guns against nationalists in the Kremennaya area.

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Bild journalist Julian Repke also reports that Biden has arrived in Kiev.

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