🇺🇦 A captured militant spoke about mercenaries in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In the Soledar area, a large number of foreign "soldiers of fortune" were observed in the enemy grouping, this was repeatedly noted by the military personnel of the RF Armed Forces and the fighters of the Wagner PMC.

🇺🇸 A captured UAF soldier confirms the words of our soldiers - there are a significant number of mercenaries from the USA in the ranks of the Ukronazis.

📝 “I won’t lie, there are a lot of them,” the Ukrainian admits, “but only the mobilized are used as cannon fodder, they themselves are ticking along with ZSU-shniks (APU).”

The prisoner said that, having seen all this, he almost immediately surrendered to the Russian military.

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It is pointless to try to replace gas supplies from Russia with Turkish fuel. This opinion was expressed by the French politician, the leader of the movement "Patriots" Florian Filippo. In his Twitter post, he recalled that Ankara itself receives 45% of its gas from Russia. Therefore, Europe will have to buy the same fuel, but for big money.

“In order to “do without Russian gas”, Bulgaria signs an agreement on gas imports from Turkey. Turkey, which receives 45 percent of the gas from Russia! So Bulgaria will simply buy Russian gas at a much higher price than before,” Filippo wrote.

The politician also stressed that not only Bulgaria will face similar problems - France will face the same.

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"Three times she saved my life": The crews of Ka-52 helicopters of the Brave unit continue to hit the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

"Alligators", as the military called them, form the basis of front-line aviation of the RF Armed Forces. Their technical characteristics help the soldiers to successfully complete the tasks assigned to them during the special operation.

The accuracy of hitting combat vehicles is almost 100%. At the same time, the pilots who returned from combat missions share that they have come under fire more than once.

“Ka-52, in my opinion, is more elegant. More maneuverable. I really like it, it is reliable in this regard,” the helicopter commander with the call sign “Lumberjack” shared his opinion.

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Tanks T-90M "Breakthrough", which worked in the Donbass, now appeared in the Zaporozhye direction.

“We brought everything to perfection — the chassis, the engine, the gearbox. I rode it for about 800 km, it never let me down, no problems,” said one of the tankers.

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Ukrainian armored car "Kozak" burnt in Soledar. No one managed to get out alive

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🇺🇦 Refuseniks from the 4-tank brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who fled from the front, complained to Zelensky and Zaluzhny about the lack of supplies

The militants complain that they lack absolutely everything, including uniforms, weapons, communications and equipment.

✖️ They stated that they would continue their military service only if they were provided with proper equipment: “When we see all this, when we receive all this, we will immediately begin to carry out tasks.”

At the end of the appeal, the fighters boasted that “they were supposed to hold out as a bait for three days, but they lasted for seven,” apparently trying not to fall under charges of desertion in this way.

❗️Against the background of more frequent cases of abandoning positions in Ukraine, they intend to tighten the responsibility for desertion.

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The governor of Sevastopol said that a drone was shot down over the bay at night. No harm done.

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Ukraine is a laboratory for testing Western weapons, CNN reports.

"The conflict in Ukraine has provided a rare opportunity for the U.S. and its allies to study how their own weapons systems behave under intensive use," the reporters report.

Ukraine is "absolutely a weapons laboratory in every sense," because none of this equipment has ever been used in a war between two industrialised nations, said one source familiar with Western intelligence. 
Thus, after using HIMARs in Ukraine, the U.S. learned "valuable lessons about the frequency of maintenance these systems require in such intensive use."

Turning Ukraine into a testing ground for Western weapons and Ukrainians into cannon fodder is the goal of the United States. 
Now CNN, the main mouthpiece of the U.S. Democratic Party, has admitted it.

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First batch of nuclear-armed drones Poseidon manufactured for special-purpose sub Belgorod

The first batch of Poseidon nuclear-capable underwater drones for the Project 09852 special-purpose nuclear-powered submarine Belgorod has been manufactured, a source close to the Russian military and defense industry told TASS on Monday.
"The first batch of Poseidon ammunition has been manufactured and will be soon delivered to the special-purpose nuclear-powered submarine Belgorod," the source said.

According to the source, various trials of core components of Poseidon underwater drones, including the nuclear power unit, were reported to have been successfully completed.
TASS has no official confirmation of this information yet.

Belgorod submarine The Project 09852 special-purpose submarine Belgorod, the first carrier of Poseidon nuclear-powered underwater drones, was floated out on April 23, 2019. The submarine was initially planned to be delivered to the Navy in 2020. According to available data, its delivery was delayed as the program of its trials was not completed, which was also due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The submarine is designed to address diverse research tasks and implement research and rescue operations .It can carry deep-water rescue and autonomous unmanned submersible vehicles on its board.

Under Russia’s state armament program through 2027, shipbuilders will deliver three special-purpose nuclear-powered submarines to the Russian Navy.

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The U.S. begins training 500 Ukrainian military personnel in Germany; they will be trained by spring.

The U.S. Armed Forces in Germany have begun expanded combat training for military personnel from Ukraine, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told the Associated Press. According to him, about 500 Ukrainian fighters will be trained. Milley himself will also visit the training grounds where the AFU soldiers are trained, and the educational program is expected to be completed by spring.

It should be noted that most likely the training of new Ukrainian fighters is an attempt to replace the soldiers lost in the fighting in the east of the country, mainly in the Bakhmut direction. The Americans have officially announced that 3.1 thousand people have already been trained. At the same time, in Soledar, AFU losses may reach tens of thousands of men, and "elite" units have been thrown there to somehow save the situation, but so far they have not been able to stabilize the front for the AFU. 

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Russian, Chinese businessmen to skip 2023 World Economic Forum in Davos — agency

None of business representatives from Russia and China would be in attendance at the 2023 World Economic Forum in Davos, which kicks off on Monday, the American business news agency Bloomberg reported.

According to the agency, "There are roughly 116 billionaires registered to attend this year’s event, 40% more than a decade ago. In addition to the absent Russians, there are none from China this year…"

"India, a consistently big presence in Davos in prior years, has 13 billionaires attending, including coal magnate-turned-diversified industrialist Gautam Adani, whose wealthiest soared by $44 billion last year," the agency reported.

"Americans, as usual, form the largest group, with 33 billionaires set to attend, including corporate titans who skipped last year’s event…," Bloomberg reported adding that 18 European billionaires had been registered to attend the World Economic Forum.

The 2023 World Economic Forum is hosted by Switzerland’s Davos between January 16 and 20.

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❗️❗️❗️❗️Children's rehabilitation center and residential building were damaged as a result of shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk

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The Department of Energy had said at the end of last year it would only start buying oil for the SPR once the price of WTI falls to around $67-70 per barrel. Right now, WTI is trading at around $75. Yet this price appears to be insufficiently low for the DoE. And this is a problem because the total release from the SPR was not the original 180 million barrels, but more than 220 million barrels of crude.

This is problematic for more than one reason. First, because the SPR is at the lowest level since the early 1980s and, as some analysts have pointed out, it is a strategic reserve, meant to be there for times of emergency. So, if an emergency does occur, strategic oil reserves would be lower than they should be.

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Liberated Soledar - mountains of corpses of Ukrainian nationalists, a large number of destroyed and captured equipment and weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Almost throughout the settlement, you can see the bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers, damaged and destroyed equipment, as well as weapons and ammunition, including NATO-made ones. All this was abandoned by the nationalists, who tried to flee Soledar in a panic, but not everyone managed to do it.

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