Russian aircraft over Kherson. There is an air defense traces in the background.

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Evacuation of 200x AFU soldiers.

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📹 Scouts of the 3rd Guards Special Forces Battalion destroy an SMG-9 using a thermal imaging camera

Scouts of the 3rd Guards Special Operations Battalion, while conducting reconnaissance, using a thermal imaging camera, detected an SPG-9 grenade launcher crew that was firing at our positions and a hidden enemy vehicle. The identified group target was eliminated using an anti-tank-guided missile.

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Polish prime minister in Berlin urged Germany to stop blocking supplies and give Ukraine all kinds of weapons

"The defeat of Ukraine could be a prelude to World War III, so there is no reason today to block support for Kiev and postpone things indefinitely. I call on the German government to act decisively by supplying Ukraine with all kinds of weapons!" - Morawiecki said.

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And weapons, explosives, mines, AA systems...

A captured Ukrainian fighter told of the death of an entire company of the AFU in Artemovsk.
This occupied town in the DNR continues to be stormed by Wagner group forces. The Ukrainian Armed Forces suffer huge losses there, which is why the operation is called Bakhmut meat grinder /RIAN/.


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Kiev has thrown in foreign mercenaries and an unprofessional military to defend Artemovsk, Times.

▪️Kiev, believing that spring offensives and counteroffensives will decide the course of hostilities, has kept its select units out of the city's defense. "The result is an often desperate, regularly lethal defense on the part of the volunteers," writes the British Times.
▪️Some of the "volunteers" are mercenaries from the International Legion: Europeans, Canadians, and Americans. But most are Ukrainians, many of whom do not have the necessary combat experience. The article describes a battle near Artemovsk involving a sauna manufacturer and a truck driver on the Ukrainian side.

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❗️️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Another UAV raid on the Crimean peninsula

This morning Ukrainian formations made another attempted raid on the Crimean peninsula from Odessa using Mugin-5 drones equipped with a grenade-dropping system.

🔻Chronicle of events

▪️ At 06.00, a group of five Mugin-5 drones took off from the Shkolny airfield in Odessa in the direction of Cape Tarkhankut on an already "piloted" route. An hour later, a second wave of UAVs headed toward Crimea from the same airfield along a similar path.

▪️After reaching a certain point over the Black Sea, both groups of UAVs adjusted their route, heading towards Karkinit Bay and Bakalskaya Spit.

▪️The Ukrainian UAVs then entered the republic's airspace via the village of Steregushche in the Razdolnenskiy district of Crimea. Three Mugin were shot down on the approach while the others infiltrated further towards Novoozernoye.

▪️The two remaining UAVs were destroyed by units of the 31st Air Defence Division near Novoozernoye, while the rest returned to the coastal Black Sea waters via Donuzlav Bay.

▪️ Four more drones were hit near the northern breakwater in Sevastopol towards Cape Chersonese and Belbek airfield, while one went down in the sea near Novofedorovka.

🔻Specifics.

First, the AFU changed the timing of the raid. Almost every previous attack had been carried out at night or in the early hours of the morning. This time, however, the period between 08:00 and 10:00 was chosen.

Secondly, the attempted strikes were again carried out without objective control by NATO reconnaissance aircraft. A similar raid on the peninsula was carried out on 24 December last year.

Third, the chosen area for infiltration into Crimea was consistent with the previously attempted strikes. The ultimate targets were most likely Russian Air Force airfields on the peninsula, including Saki and Belbek.

NATO's satellite constellation has been actively filming these sites in great detail for the past few days, as well as Gvardeyskoye, Dzhankoy, the Black Sea Fleet ships' anchorage in Sevastopol, and the positions of mobile air defense units.

🔻 What next?

The Ukrainian command varies drone tactics, periodically changing the timing of attacks and the types of drones used, ranging from commercial Mugins to aerostats. More UAVs were dispatched in two waves today than in past raids.

The purpose of this morning's action by the AFU was the same - to assess the state of air defense by identifying SAM and mobile squadron positions and the least defended areas in the air defense.

It is likely that in the subsequent few days, attempts at strikes will continue. And this time, with a high degree of probability, the US RQ-4B UAV, which flew from the Sigonella airbase to the Larissa airbase in Greece, will be observing the actions of the Russian Armed Forces.

This will increase the operational efficiency of the RQ-4B near Russian borders. Eight MQ-9A Reaper UAVs have already been at the Greek base since November, and the arrival of the Global Hawk demonstrates Greece's increased role in the US geopolitical deterrence strategy.

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