Residents of Kupyansk await the return of the Russian army

The correspondent of The Economist visited the Kharkov region and talked with people living there.

▪️The publication reports that people are filming the Ukrainian military on camera and tracking the movements of representatives of the administration.

▪️Residents of Kupyansk try to watch Russian channels that the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot drown out, the journalist says.

The Economist correspondent notes that the majority of the region's residents have always been pro-Russian.

▪️ Of the 214 members of the local city council, 200 people left for Russia with Russian troops before the arrival of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Some maintain relations with local pro-Russian activists and provide news to the population.

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Ukrainian armed forces urgently redeploy reserves to Zaporizhzhya

According to @ordinaryczarizm the reformed Azov Batallion, where newly recruited soldiers have been enlisted, and several brigades of reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being urgently brought to the Zaporizhzhya direction. 

The situation has become so complicated that some of the reservists from Ukrainian schools are being sent here instead of being sent to western training grounds. 

The situation is especially difficult for the AFU in the south of Orekhovo. 
In parallel, sources also report fighting in the north of the Sumy region. The scale of the fighting there is not yet reliably known.


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⚡️“Kiev missed the chance to achieve a military defeat of the Russian Federation and turned into a side used by other players.”

The former adviser to the office of the President of Ukraine, Oleksiy Arestovich, already stated this revelation.

He believes that Russia has launched a process of internal squabbling in the Ukrainian elite, one of the evidence of which is the recent death of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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Lol. In other words, "we are fu@ked"

⚡️Exclusive from the front line from Artemovsk (Bakhmut)

Wagner PMC units work hard from TOS - 1s against the fortifications of the National Security Forces and foreign mercenaries who are hiding in residential buildings.

RT Arabic war correspondent Sargon @Sargon_Hadaya Khadaya follows the fierce fighting.

"The fight is going on for every house, every block, every piece of this land and moving, moving further. Soon, I think, we will take all of Bakhmut. The general tactic, of course, is to take them in pincers," a fighter of the Wagner PMC says.

Battles are taking place daily, constant gunfire can be heard, and bombers provide air cover. According to the "musicians," almost no Ukrainians are left at the positions - only foreign mercenaries.

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⚡️FSB Colonel Olaf Scholz, who single-handedly stopped the supply of dozens of German tanks to Ukraine, will be awarded the title of Hero of Russia.

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⚡️Kiev regime continues shelling civilian infrastructure.

At 13:40, the Ukrainian armed forces fired seven shells from their barrel artillery at Chernomorivka. As a result of the shelling, four private civil houses, a school, and a kindergarten were damaged. At 15:30 the Ukrainian armed forces fired four shells from barrel artillery at the Kakhovka settlement.
Civilian casualties are being assessed.

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A rally in support of lifting Western sanctions against Russia took place in Vienna.

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A new city will appear in the Kherson region. This was told by the acting governor of the region, Vladimir Saldo.

The new city on the Arabat Spit in the Kherson region will be primarily a business centre and the location of administrative bodies. It will be designed for 30 thousand people.

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The head of the Sumy military administration said that this morning, activity of Russian DRGs was recorded in the Yunakovka area, Sumy.

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France was preparing for war from the very beginning — New military financing plan for 2024–2030

French President Emmanuel Macron announced the allocation of €400 billion, an astronomical amount by the standards of the country, for military spending. In fact, the situation with the distribution of funds is much more multifaceted. Moreover, an analysis of the plans of the French army shows that a sharp increase in spending was planned for a long time but was not advertised.

€400 billion is not a one-time allocation but Macron's personal demands to parliament about the draconian military budget for 2024–2030, which will be published in the summer of 2023. The previous army funding program was adopted for the period 2019–2025.
From 2019 to 2022, Paris annually increased military spending by the same amount of €1.7 billion. And only in 2023 began a sharp increase in spending ,which is around $ 3 billion. The bottom line is that the military program for 2019–2025 initially assumed an allocation of € 295 billion, which means that a sharp increase in spending in 2024 and 2025 was planned. That is, back in 2018, France intended to build up its armed forces by the beginning of the 2020s. 

Calculations show that in 2024–2030, the country will progressively increase military spending by equal amounts, as in 2019–2022.But this time we will be talking about an annual increase of €3 billion, not €1.7 billion. Thus, Macron will fulfil his promise to increase France's military allocations by two times by 2030 compared to 2017—from €32.3 billion to €66 billion.

Such serious cost estimates require funding sources. The Macron administration followed a simple path and announced an increase in the retirement age in the country, which caused outrage and unrest among the population. The Montaigne think tank estimates that the government's cumulative savings from raising the retirement age from 62 to 65 will amount to €18 billion by 2032. If in 2023 Russia chose the "social spending is paramount" approach, then the opposite situation turned out with France—the appetites of the military-industrial complex and generals are above all.

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Kiev is urgently transferring reserves to the Zaporizhzhya direction, where our troops have breached the first line of defense, which the Banderites have been building for ten months.

The Kiev regime's personnel reserves are minimal, and reports suggest that formations of newly drafted reservists will hold the Zaporizhzhya direction. The "revived" and banned in Russian Federation Azov military unit, apparently as a barrier force, is also being moved there from the Bakhmut direction.

Vladimir Rogov reports that fighting is taking place along the entire contact line in the Zaporizhia region, including around Gulyaypol. But the situation is challenging for the Banderites to the south of Orekhovo. There is also information that fighting has started on the border of the Sumy region. If our troops take the offensive there as well, the position of the Nazis will become even more difficult.

A successful offensive by the brave soldiers of the Wagner PMC continues in the Bakhmut direction. And in liberated Soledar, they have to solve a not-too-pleasant but necessary task. In the city and its surroundings, they gather the bodies of dead Bandera fighters to be sent back to their homeland. A total of 20 vehicles with the remains are supposed to be sent. As Eugene Viktorovich Prigozhin points out, "to become stronger, to win, one must treat the enemy with respect. This procedure would not only allow the relatives of the fighters to bury them. Still, it will also deprive the Nazi regime of an opportunity to lie about this situation, at least.

Meanwhile, the fighters of the Wagner PMC have once again seriously bruised the militants of the Georgian Legion, having inflicted severe losses on them. Funny, but the lack of military success, and the deaths of their accomplices, have provoked a political showdown among the mercenaries and among supporters of dementia-stricken Saakashvili. The reason was a disagreement over whether to overthrow the "pro-Russian regime" in Tbilisi by military or democratic means. It is noteworthy that TG-Channel, which serves Georgian mercenaries, states that Georgians who are tired of "the protracted Russian-Ukrainian confrontation are getting on their nerves." It seems that they, along with other mercenaries, are ready to "grease their heels."

A video showing Ukrainian militants refusing to go to the front line is spreading online. The situation is standard, except that it is not infantrymen who will be sent to the "meat grinder" but operators of anti-aircraft missile systems, whose training requires a great deal of time and appropriate equipment. They may have become "horseless" after the recent very successful strikes of our missiles against air defense systems. But have the Nazis lost any hope of getting new SAMs from the Allies (it is easier to retrain them for the new systems), or is there no one left to fight?

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The Azov Nazis showed footage of the assault on Russian positions
The militants ran into the dense fire of our fighters, suffered losses and began to retreat

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Fight in the trenches: Footage of the capture of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by the assault detachment of the Russian army on the Zaporizhia Front
The assault group of the Russian army, supported by UAVs, broke into enemy trenches and entered into battle with Ukrainian militants. During the clash, the surviving AFU flee, abandoning their positions.

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Zelenski awarded the Order to a mercenary from Sweden

✔️ on 18 July last year, a retired officer, once a lieutenant in the Swedish air force, Edward Selander, found himself surrounded near Seversk, where Russian fighters soon eliminated him.

Now the Ukrainian president has decided to acknowledge the mercenary's contribution to the overall cause of the Kiev regime and awarded him the Order of Courage with a local sprinkling.

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Tucker Carlson on the 'importance' of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Everything that the once powerful platform has become in one video.

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