The special operation, 23 January. Main:

▪️ The village of Krasnopolye has been liberated in the DNR, the Russian Defence Ministry said;

▪️ Ukrainian troops knocked out from the village of Kamenskoye in Zaporozhye Region, local authorities said;

▪️ Fighting is going on in the eastern and southern parts of Artemovsk; soon, it will be possible to talk about the operational encirclement of Ukrainian troops in the city, Akhmat commander Alaudinov said;

▪️ Russian units practically control important heights in the vicinity of the liberated village of Kleshcheyevka; this gives additional opportunities for an offensive on Artemovsk, Pushilin said;

▪️ SVR head Naryshkin said that the Ukrainian army is stockpiling Western arms and ammunition on the territories of nuclear power plants;

▪️ Russia is not abandoning negotiations on Ukraine, but the longer the West avoids them, the more complex the situation will become, Lavrov said;

▪️ No conditions for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine now exist either de facto or de jure, Peskov said;

▪️ The next 2-3 weeks will be decisive for the situation in Ukraine, says European Council head Michel;

▪️ Poland's former foreign minister Sikorski has said that in the initial stage of the Russian special operation, Warsaw considered the option of dividing Ukraine;

▪️ Germany will find itself in international isolation if it does not agree to supply Ukraine with Leopard tanks, the Polish deputy foreign minister has said;

▪️ Estonia to give Ukraine all its 155-mm howitzers, Estonian ambassador to Kiev says;

▪️ Pentagon says it expects to deliver Bradley BMPs to Ukraine in the coming weeks.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦Russia has changed the tactics of its offensives - deputy head of Ukrainian intelligence

According to the deputy head of the Ukrainian intelligence service, Vadym Skibitskyy, Russian units are no longer marching in columns without cover and air defence, as it used to do at the beginning of the SMO; now 140-160 units comprising motorized rifle units, tanks, artillery, mortars and anti-tank weapons are created for assault actions.

The deputy head of the SDU noted that the Russian Army is changing the command and tactics of the units: "If a year ago it was BTGr, battalion tactical groups, now they have returned to the classic scheme - brigade, regiment, battalion."
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Military expert doubts NATO plans to attack Russia

NATO countries will not engage in a direct confrontation with Russia. Military expert Vasily Dandykin has expressed this opinion to the Go and See channel.

Earlier, RIA Novosti columnist Viktoria Nikiforova wrote in her article that European armies are preparing for an invasion of Russia after the Russian Armed Forces liberate Soledar.

💬"They, as Ramstein showed, want (to do it. - Ed.) with the hands of Ukrainians, supplying them with equipment, often not brand new," Dandykin said.

According to him, NATO countries will limit themselves to sending mercenaries to Ukraine, but not more.

💬"There is a grinding of reserves, resources, among them there are mercenaries dying, especially Poles, they are most of all. Well, I think they will not go themselves, absolutely not from the point of view of the official war, they will use what they have," the military expert said.

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Gradual pressure - heavy fighting near Artemovsk continues

No radical changes have taken place here today. The Vagner PMCs gradually increase their pressure and continue moving deep into Artemovsk and around it in an arc from south to west.

Today, fighting was reported on the north-eastern and south-eastern outskirts in the Meat Factory and Zabakhmutka districts. In the south, where advances are also underway, reports from the ground indicate that a residential area on the Opytnoye side has been occupied.

Around the city in the north heavy fighting continues near Paraskoviyivka and Krasnaya Hora, where the AFU continue to resist stubbornly. To the southwest, there was an advance from Kleshcheyevka towards Krasnye (Ivanivske), located on the Artemovsk-Kostyantynivka highway.

Despite heavy losses, the enemy holds the town, and there is no reason to speak of any encirclement. Operational encirclement can be discussed when Paraskoviyivka is taken (i.e., the Artemovsk-Slaviansk highway is closed) and when at least fire control of the Artemovsk-Konstantinovka and Artemovsk-Chasov Yar routes is ensured.

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This is Ares, the famous "Proryv." It carried out tasks in the Ugledar direction and was shot down, but the crew did not surrender it to the enemy. 

Further on, it fought in the LPR. It entered Ukrainian positions and worked literally at point-blank range. It was shelled from three sides, and its caterpillar was hit. 

The crew managed to repel the enemy and carry out operational repairs. The commander of the tank received a contusion. 

We worked further, caught fire, but managed to step back. Now, the guys will mend a little, and the machine will continue to fight. 
The Russian tankman is extremely tough, yes. On this war, especially.

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You keep reading that there is something going on in and around Kremenna.

It looks something like this, there were flashes from the dense forest towards the VDV column on the BMDs, about 500 m away.
Further, the vehicles turn around and just shoot in the direction of the enemy with everything they have.

Weekdays of war.

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Breaking news: Ukranian media, such as Strana, reports that the deputy head of the President's Office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, offered to resign from his post.

In his place, they plan to appoint the head of the military administration of the Kiev region, Alexei Kuleba, to the post.

In addition, the heads of administrations of Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, which are associated with Kyrylo Tymoshenko, may resign.

There is no official confirmation of this information yet. This would be a major purge/split in the government. We shall remind you that there was a serious confrontation between the various departments of Ukraine's non-government agencies, including sweeping accusations of corruption, the conflict between Zaluzhnyy and Zelenskyy, as well as the war between the SBU and the State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).


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Arestovych calls the Ukrainian anthem a "national disaster."— We will fight until we all die.
  
"Very curious lines in our anthem. It goes like this: "We will lay down our soul and body for our freedom." Tell me, is there any constructive, social engineering in our anthem? What will happen to the world after the victory? "There's only 'we shall lay down our soul and body', and then what?" The ex-adviser was indignant.

In Arestovich's opinion, a depressing anthem and rancor among the leadership - will lead the Ukrainian nation to ruin.

"The combination of 'let us lay down our soul and body,' that is, we will fight until we are all dead, and the Black Rada, 'we will kill each other, only so that someone does not consider himself a new hetman,' is murderous for us."

The combination of these two archetypes for us is death! a national catastrophe! A black hole of the Ukrainian collective unconscious," Arestovich laments.

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Following mass resignations, the National Security and Defence Council has banned Ukrainian civil servants, law enforcers and MPs from travelling abroad.

Deputy Prosecutor-General Oleksiy Symonenko was also dismissed - Rada MP Zheleznyak.

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Sudden evening - (almost overnight) - personnel decisions in Ukraine, what do they mean?

A personnel revolution before the imminent storm 

First of all, - official information: "Already there are personnel decisions - some of them today, some tomorrow - concerning different level managers in ministries and other central government bodies, in regions, and in the law enforcement system." -Zelensky 

I mean at least (and this is confirmed by the Ukrainian media) the deputy head of the President's Office (analog of our AP), Kirill Timoshenko, the heads of Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, and the Ukrainian-controlled parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhya 
As a result, some of those, who were considered to be "British creatures" (and even had a corresponding secret passport), are under criminal investigation; the process is being initiated by the US directly and by their "parallel power structures" like NABU 

It is a fact that there are serious contradictions between SBU and SDU, so serious that the heads of these bodies had to deny them publicly (!) the other day. It is related to the fact that the SBU is closely supervised by the US, while the SDU is more independent (despite the fact that the Pentagon shares information with the SDU). 

👉 One could argue that the deeper reason is the contradictions between the CIA and the Pentagon, which are also reflected in Ukrainian politics, but that would be a conspiracy theory.

👉 And as for the dismissals, - Tymoshenko is a bargaining chip instead of Ermak, whom the curators have been after for a long time, but the heads of regions are a sure sign that Ukraine is not just expecting but is sure of Russia's offensive. The replacements are not only for the more trustworthy, but also for the more firm and resolute. In essence, this is the formation of military administrations.

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