🇮🇷Iran's planned purchase of Russian Su-35 aircraft could upset the balance of air power in the Middle East. This is according to "The National Interest."

The Russian fighter is remarkable for its super maneuverability and its ability to strike the enemy out of sight. And the purchase of such aircraft and their use in combination with the S-400 air defense systems will bring Iran's defense capabilities to a new level.

The Su-35 procurement is not only a defense deal but also a strategic manifestation, proving the bitter cost of appeasement and naivety.

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This is actually proof of "fuck around and find out." This is the enemy you created, NATO. GET FUCKED.

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Russian forces in the DPR are stepping up air defense and intensifying counter-battery combat. This was announced by the acting head of the republic Denis Pushilin on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel. According to him, the Russian military is trying to move the line of contact away from major cities.

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At the moment, missile strikes are being carried out in the Kupyansky district against the accumulation of equipment and personnel of the Nazis.

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Only 5.4% of the grain exported under the Ukraine-Russia grain deal went to countries in need, the Turkish Agriculture Ministry said.

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Reinforcements of the Armed Forces of Ukraine drove into the landing, not knowing that the Viking group had already sent Tornado-G there. The guys decided to wait a bit for those who were late and covered everyone who had gathered with a massive volley of 122mm rockets.

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Pushilin's adviser Yan Gagin has proposed to recreate the SMERSH counterintelligence agency in Russia.

According to Gagin, such a structure is needed to counter saboteurs and traitors, including "in the cultural sphere."

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For those who don't know, SMERSH is an acronym of SMERT SPIUNA or death to spies—has long history and success. I don't think I have to explain what they do. Medvedev proposed the same.

Poland can send only a symbolic number of Leopard tanks to Ukraine, there are no talks of tens or hundreds - a representative of the Office of the Polish President

Poland can send only a symbolic number of Leopard tanks to Ukraine, there are no talks of tens or hundreds - a representative of the Office of the Polish President

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The representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Vadym Skibitsky, said that in the coming days, the Russian Armed Forces could launch a new missile attack on Ukrainian infrastructure, as the air temperature drops. Skibitsky knows who to get the weather from.

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The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports on the advancement of the assault units of the Pacific Fleet (Marines) in the area of Ugledar under the cover of air defense

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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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