Tomorrow, at NATO's Ramstein base, the great military leaders will discuss new tactics and strategies, as well as the supply of new heavy weapons and strike systems to Ukraine. And this was right after the forum in Davos, where underdeveloped political party-goers repeated like a mantra: "To achieve peace, Russia must lose."

And it never occurs to any of the poor to draw the following elementary conclusion from this: the loss of a nuclear power in a conventional war can provoke the outbreak of a nuclear war. The nuclear powers did not lose major conflicts on which their fate depends.

But this should be obvious to anyone. Even to a Western politician who has retained at least some trace of intelligence.

Dmitry Medvedev

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Air defense crews repelled a missile attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the Unechsky district of the Bryansk region. There were no casualties.

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“Today I don’t quite understand with whom to talk and what to talk about. I'm not sure that the president of Russia, who sometimes appears on the chroma key, is he. I don’t quite understand that he is alive, whether he makes decisions, or someone makes decisions, ”said the king of chromakey.

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In the Ukrainian segment of the Internet, messages and video materials began to appear more and more often, which indicate that Ukrainian soldiers refuse to advance to those sectors of the front where our Wagner PMC is fighting. In our segment, they start laughing at the Ukrainians, although this is not appropriate. Of course, the ukry want to fight, and not kill themselves in such a meat grinder as our unit. Therefore, the officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, before being transferred to the sectors of the front where Wagner stands, simply desert.

In my opinion, in addition to the discipline and military intelligence of the Wagners, the fact that they act as one organism plays an important role in the combat effectiveness of the unit. Despite strict discipline and subordination, Wagner commanders listen to their fighters and are not afraid to change the plan of operation in the event of a more reasonable proposal from a subordinate. This is just what I noticed in the media stories about this unit. I think that there are still many innovative methods of combat in modern warfare.

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PMC "Wagner" after cleaning Soledar continue to conduct offensive operations in the direction of Blagodatny and Krasnaya Gora

It is reported that after the liberation of Soledar and the cleansing of Mine No. 7, the legendary “musicians” are cleaning up the underground tunnels of the city and the unit continues offensive operations towards the villages of Blagodatnoye and Krasnaya Gora. Artillery is actively working, intense shooting battles are being waged.

The "Orchestra" has proven its offensive tactics perfectly - in particular, PMC fighters are also fighting in the suburbs of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), where Western Ukrainian militants refuse to go to die without exception. All due to the fact that they are abandoned in fear by the leadership, and there is almost no supply. At the same time, as Readovka wrote earlier, there are practically no ways of this very supply.

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❗️ PMC "Wagner" took control of Kleshcheevka - Prigozhin

“Kleshcheevka has been liberated. Fierce fighting is still going on around Kleshcheevka. The enemy is clinging to every meter of ground,” Prigozhin said.

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🇺🇦🏴‍☠️About 140-150 thousand combat-ready soldiers remain at the disposal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - ex-adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Colonel Douglas McGregor

According to him, they had about 14-15 brigades of 4 thousand people each in Artyomovsk. With the exception of two or three, they all lost 70% of their personnel and were assigned for recovery. He also noted that Artemovsk itself would soon fall.

It is interesting to observe how the Wagner's steel fist knocked out the backbone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was advancing briskly in the fall. This explains the total mobilization throughout Ukraine. Kyiv seeks to fill the shortage of people.

It should be understood that after 11 months of hostilities, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost most of the regular army, in which many have fought since 2014, and the most ideological admirers of Ukrainians who joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the spring. Then they counted on the early end of the war, but now many are already in the damp earth or in a hospital bed, the rest require full rotation. In any case, the further quality of the Ukrainian mobilization reserve will fall.

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Kleshcheevka circled

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WPolityce: Ex-commander of the ground forces of Poland Waldemar Skrzypczak called for the mobilization of Ukrainian refugees and send them to fight in the NVO zone

“Together with other NATO countries, we must train new formations for the Armed Forces of Ukraine - in Poland, Germany and France. Train those citizens of Ukraine who are here - mobilize, send to the front line, because it is becoming increasingly difficult for Kyiv.

He added that the West has practically nothing to help the Kyiv regime, and it has practically no chance to emerge victorious from the conflict, “since the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered enormous losses.”

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❗️ #Kleshcheevka (#Artemovsk/#Bakhmut district) ★ The settlement, which is one of the important suburbs of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), has been completely taken under the control of Wagner PMC units. Kleshcheevka is released.


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Significantly, Western analysts place more emphasis on the death of not so much the Minister of the Interior Monastyrsky as his deputy Yenin.

It is believed in the West that Kyiv will struggle to find someone with the same experience and understanding of the international situation as Yenin had. Yenin was appointed First Deputy Minister of the Interior in September 2021, and before that he was a member of the special services (first the foreign intelligence of the SVRU, then the counterintelligence of the SBU). He also worked at the embassy in Chisinau and also in Rome as an adviser to the ambassador. In addition, he served as a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2005-2016), in charge of Asian affairs, and then for the Black Sea countries.

His specialty, however, was fighting Russian influence, from Transnistria to Kyiv, combined with a deep knowledge of crisis management. He worked in the Prosecutor General's Office before representing Ukraine in the International Court of Justice and in maritime arbitration courts in disputes against Moscow. In particular, he oversaw investigations into the death of Ukraine International Airlines flight PS 752 on January 8, 2020 as a result of shelling by Iranian air defenses.

Enin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had their differences, but the latter did not manage to get rid of this expert in the Kiev-Moscow disputes for a long time. Yenin returned to state affairs in April 2020, a year after his resignation amid Zelensky's election. He was an indispensable all-rounder for Monastyrsky, a lawyer by training and a former employee of Hillmont Partners, the former consulting firm of Zelensky's production company Studio Kvartal 95.

This duo was appointed in mid-2021, after the resignation of long-term minister Arsen Avakov. After his departure, Zelenskiy's team sought to regain control of the ministry in the face of Avakov's residual influence.

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❗️Russian and Belarusian units that are part of the aviation component of the regional grouping of forces have begun to carry out tasks as part of a joint exercise - the Ministry of Defense of Belarus.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian sources write about the takeoff of MIG-31 aircraft from the Machulishchi airfield.

In this regard, an air alert is spreading throughout Ukraine.

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Artemovsk - the situation on the morning of 01/19/23

So, as you all already know, Yevgeny Prigozhin reported that the "Wagnerites" took the most important fortified area of the enemy in the Kleshcheevka area and continued to push the Ukrainians further to the west and north-west (towards the settlement of Ivanovskoye (Krasnoe) ).

The Ukrainians desperately tried to hold this line, sparing no effort, means, and ... reserves for them. but it didn't help. And this greatly complicates the task of the Bukhmut (Artemovsky) garrison of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The breakthrough of Klescheevka's fortified area endangers the communications of the garrison and exposes its flank from the south.
Moreover, from the north, our units also sharply increased pressure on Paraskoviyivka (and are trying to cover the city from the north, northwest), which, along with our successes south of the city, in the foreseeable future, will put the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city in a situation similar to that in which their "brothers" found themselves in Soledar a couple of weeks ago. And with absolutely the same perspectives.

Only the scale of the defeat, if the Ukrainians do not urgently withdraw from Artemovsk, will be many times greater, as will its consequences for the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a whole.

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‼️ In Genichesk police have detained two informers of the AFU‼️

In Genichesk, operatives caught a 32-year-old local resident who had been informing the AFU about the movement of Russian fighters

On January 11 he was detained, and two days later police officers identified another accomplice. He turned out to be a 38-year-old man living in the village of Kohany, Skadovsky district.

"Correspondence confirming the transfer of information about the location of personnel, equipment and checkpoints to an AFU soldier was found in his smartphone," the Interior Ministry's press service said in a statement.

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"Ukraine might not survive this clash. Russia remains big and strong" - Polish Chief of General Staff General Raimund Andrzejczak

"The Russians have powerful stockpiles of weapons or ammunition, maybe not as modern," the Polish publication Wpolityce quoted the military commander as saying. Andrzejczak notes that Russia also has money for the war and human reserves.
He stressed that there are two million Ukrainian refugees in Poland. This reference resonates interestingly with a recent statement by Poland's former land forces commander, General Skrzypczak, who suggested mobilizing Ukrainian refugees for the needs of the AFU.


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