‼️🇺🇦 AFU voiced a version from the "alternative reality" about the Russian army's attack on Zaporozhye

▪️The RF Armed Forces are conducting reconnaissance in force in the Zaporozhye region and are transferring weapons from Crimea, said E. Yerin, head of the press center of the Tauride Defense Forces.
▪️Russian troops in many areas are advancing in small reconnaissance groups of up to 10 people.
▪️ "It cannot be said that this is some kind of significant offensive. These are small groups, striving, mainly on the ground, to check our line of defense. And if this succeeds, then, if possible, the enemy in some areas tries to improve his tactical position and occupy more advantageous positions for defense," Yerin said.
❗️Note that the previously appeared Ukrainian video itself refutes the words of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are advancing with armored vehicles, clearly not ten people each.

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And don't forget that they are still holding Soledar...

Another Ukrainian International M1224 MaxxPro US-made armored vehicle was destroyed near Artemovsk (Bakhmut).

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🇺🇦First photo of IRIS-T SLM in Ukraine

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Slovakia holds today a referendum to amend the country's constitution. Currently, the country is without a government, and unlike most countries, the parliament is not automatically dissolved without a majority, instead, needing two thirds of it to vote for a snap election, which is nearly impossible.

This referendum, long proposed by the opposition, aims to change to constitution to enable that. Against the changes is the outgoing government, composed by europeanist neoliberals who want to cling on their mandate without representing a majority of the population. For it, everyone else.

For the referendum to be valid, over 50% of the voters have to take part. If the constitutional changes are approved, almost certainly the unpopular current government would be unseated, and replaced by social democrats who have a less aggressive position towards Russia.

source: https://www.trtworld.com/europe/slovakia-holds-referendum-to-amend-constitution-for-early-election-64735

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Bulgarian President Rumen Radev: The most important value is peace and human life. Supplying arms to Kiev means we are putting out the fire with petrol. This means recognizing that there will be many more casualties. Military aid to Kiev means agreeing to the position that the conflict must be fought until one side is totally defeated, which is inevitable and gradually draws the country into a global conflict and the possibility of nuclear self-destruction.
Bulgaria must not send weapons to support this conflict. My responsibility as president is to think and be in solidarity with most Bulgarians. There are not enough weapons today, but if one day we are short of men, then what will we do? The conflict is becoming increasingly violent, widening its scope, leading to exhaustion and a global economic catastrophe which is already being felt by the citizens of Europe.

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I would be touched and applauded, but the country in question sent enough weapons to arm the army of medium size

Former German Defence Minister Lambrecht banned the inventory of Leopard tanks before she resigned, Business Insider reports.

According to the newspaper, Lambrecht gave this instruction a week before her resignation. The ministry was asked to do a count of the heavy equipment to get information on the issue of possible deliveries

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The crisis in Peru has largely been forgotten by western media. After the elected president was deposed and arrested, masses have been demanding early elections instead of an unelected government, leading to about 70 people killed by the country's security forces.

This does not matter for the west though, as these protesters do not want to be a puppet of the US. Instead, this is how the protests are reported by BBC: "Machu Picchu closed, tourists stranded". The fact that an unspecified amount of people died is casually dropped at the third paragraph, as secondary context information.

Latin American lives do not matter for the west. That is why Latin Americans stand with Russia and China

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‼️Russian Aerospace Forces support the offensive of troops on the Zaporozhye Front
▪️Army and tactical aviation actively support assault groups.
▪️On the footage, strikes on the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hiding near Orekhovo.
▪️This offensive is being practiced by ours quite competently: there are few dense shooting battles, aviation and artillery are actively working on enemy positions, then armored vehicles with infantry come.
▪️Therobrona, thrown to the slaughter in the first line of defense, often flees in horror.
▪️Today, ours continued to advance, taking many enemy positions on the broad front of the Zaporozhye region.

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The head of the US Army Southern Command, Laura Richardson, has said that the US wants to replace Russian military equipment with American equipment from Russia's Latin American allies totaling nine countries and "gift it to Ukraine."

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Military operations and the situation on the fronts on the evening of 21 January

The Russian army is still actively advancing in the Zaporizhzhya direction; the front has been pressed to a depth of up to 7km. Currently, our offensive is in three directions in the Orekhovo sector: from the west side, there is fighting for Novoandreyevka and Shcherbaki; from the east side, for Belogorie and Malaya Tokmachka; from the south-east fighting for Novodanilovka, which is only 6.5 km from Orekhovo. A defense breakthrough here will allow the Russian Armed Forces to develop an offensive in several directions at once, literally cutting the AFU grouping into two parts.

Situation on the fronts in the outgoing day:

Svatovo-Kreminna direction

The aviation and artillery of the ZVO worked off the tera defense militants near Berestovoye in the Kharkiv region. Also, in the Olshany area of the Kharkov Region, an AFU depot was destroyed. In addition, artillerymen of the Central Military District covered an AFU brigade near Torskoe and Tern.

Artemovsk (Bakhmut) direction

Fighters of the Wagner PMC liberated Krasnopolye, located north of Soledar, on the railway line towards Seversk. The capture of the village allows the offensive to continue toward Razdolovka.

According to the Defence Ministry, the Russian Air Force shot down a Ukrainian Su-24 near the DPR's Vladimirovka. A Mi-8 of the Ukrainian Air Force was also shot down by air defense near Lozova, Kharkiv Region.

Today, the head of the Sumy regional administration announced the activity of our DRG in the vicinity of Yunakovka village. The event is unique in that it is the first appearance of the Russian army on the territory of the oblast since the beginning of April.

In Ivanovka, Zaporizhzhia region, police officers discovered a large cache of ammunition and explosives. They seized: anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, various grenades and grenade launcher rounds, as well as ammo, AFU uniforms, and French and 404 flags.

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A Ukrainian tank detonated on an anti-tank mine somewhere in the SMO area.

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"Surprises" from Germany - why Ukraine does not abandon attempts to get Leopards

The return of German tanks to the Ukrainian chernozem is a matter of time and the situation at the front. Currently, there is no decision on the Leopards. However, one should not count on Berlin's consistency in this aspect. Direct evidence of this is the beginning of the training of crews for German Leopard-2 tanks from among Ukrainian fighters. It is too early to rule out a sudden "surprise" in the form of German tanks in Ukraine. The formation of crews is a clear prerequisite for German vehicles to "surface" at any moment. Why are these tanks so desirable for Kiev?

"Leopards" are a mass product of the German military-industrial complex; there are more than three thousand of them in the world. The geography of the states possessing these tanks is also broad: in Europe alone, there are more than ten countries with them. If Germany approves the transfer of its tanks, Zelenskyy will get carte blanche for regular "diplomatic marathons" - already on the tank issue. This would allow Ukrainian fighters to be sent to EU countries for training and eliminate a possible shortage of shells and spare parts. As for the maintenance of the equipment, it is much less costly compared to Abrams and Challengers. Other types of weapons will also accompany the deliveries themselves.

Another reason is the importance of the precedent of lifting the taboo on mass shipments of such weapons to Ukraine. Contrary to the fact that Britain will still send a little more than a dozen of its vehicles to Ukraine, the Challenger 2 is a comparatively less massive tank with fewer owners. And there are no prerequisites for repeated such displays of generosity from London yet.

"The Leopard is a dangerous opponent on the battlefield. It was initially developed as an opponent of Soviet tanks. This vehicle has high mobility, considerable lethality, and a wide variety of ammunition. Among the disadvantages: are relatively weak armor, interior costs (high risk of BC explosion), and dependence on electronics.

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Zelenskyy commemorated the victims of the air crash in Brovary, blaming it on wartime - not a word about the investigation

One can study the acting art - rather primitive and pathos-laden - and probe the current agenda of the Bankova through the video addresses of the president of Ukraine. What Zelensky is silent about or speaks about - almost everything has a second bottom.

And today, he was somewhere in the corridor using his front camera. He recorded a monologue about the memory of those killed in the January 18 crash of a helicopter belonging to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, which crashed into a kindergarten in Brovary. Zelensky pathos summed up the topic by naming all the dead without saying a word about any progress in the promised investigation into the causes of the crash, pompously blaming everything on wartime, saying it was "the result of war."

Against a background of this utter propriety in wording, the assumptions and theories about the accidental death of Minister of the Interior Monastyrsky and his men do not seem so devoid of substantiation. And the forthcoming investigation into the allegedly unexpectedly revealed schemes of the Ministry of Defence to buy food at incredible prices only reinforces the suspicion that wartime is no more than a background for the "losses of Ukrainians, patriots and bright people."

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