Ukraine conflict to cost Germany 4.5% of GDP – DW

The collective loss to the country’s economy between 2020 and 2023 is estimated at almost $600 billions

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine will cost Europe’s largest economy €175 billion ($190 billion) this year, which equates to €2,000 per inhabitant, Deutsche Welle reported on Monday, citing a report by the Institute of German Economics (IW).

Authors of the study compared the current situation to an imaginary scenario in which there was no military operation in Ukraine or problems related to it, such as skyrocketing energy prices, spiraling inflation and supply disruptions. They calculated that the real loss to the German economy from the conflict in Ukraine will be as high as 4.5% of the GDP next year.

The study pointed out that the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine coincided with an already difficult economic situation in Germany. The economists pointed out that the country’s federal development bank KfW had already warned of a threat to prosperity in Germany due to a lack of qualified personnel and insufficient productivity growth.
In 2020, Germany recorded a loss of about €175 billion, another €125 billion in 2021, and almost €120 billion in 2022. The expected €175 billion in losses this year brings the total damage to the country’s economy between 2020 and 2023 amid Covid-19 and the conflict in Ukraine to €595 billion, the report said.

The situation with the economy will remain “extremely unstable” in the coming months, hindering growth in prosperity in Germany, according to German Economic Institute professor IW Michael Gromling. He said uncertainty in the energy sector, surging prices on energy and other raw materials, and the associated restraint in investment will continue causing headwinds to the country’s economy.

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I want to say a word of gratitude to the volunteer guys from the Kovpak detachment. You have sent such an excellent quadcopter to our sapper unit, thanks to which we can conduct reconnaissance during the performance of our tasks. They also helped us with the provision of such boxes for machine guns, which, unfortunately, are very lacking. Thank you, guys, everything for the front, everything for victory.

This is special thanks among others to our Sergey from the translation unit. Bravo Sergey and the crew.

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Russian troops knocked the Armed Forces of Ukraine out of the first houses in Artemovsk 

Grenade launchers and flamethrowers are used to clear high-rise buildings.

Soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces act competently, striking first through the windows and then sweeping floor after floor.

"We are practically in Artemovsk. "And there are already the first houses taken," said a soldier of a Russian military unit.
According to him, the AFU fighters have begun to abandon their positions and surrender more frequently. They understand that "a force has come that will punish them," the fighter said.

Earlier, the acting head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, reported fierce fighting between the Wagner PMC and the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the outskirts of Artemovsk and in the city itself.

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Offensive in the Donetsk direction
Situation as of 16.00 on January 24, 2023

🔻Fighters of the "Somali" separate assault battalion, in the course of intense fighting, took the dominating heights north of Vodyanyi and dislodged Ukrainian formations from the village itself.

▪️units of the 11th Battalion of the 59th Infantry Battalion of the AFU, who were defending the settlement, suffered huge losses and retreated to reserve lines. The command of the 11th infantry battalion requested the evacuation of personnel from the area of fighting.

▪️Marines of the 501st battalion of the 36th Corps were urgently sent to hold the line of contact. Two Mi-8 helicopters from the airfield in Slavnyi are firing NURs at Vodyanoye.

▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine expect the resumption of a full-scale offensive by Russian troops in several areas, including Pervomayskoye, Marinka, Krasnogorovka, and Nevelskoye. 

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(CNN)Poland has formally asked for approval from Germany to transfer some of its German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, its defense minister said Tuesday, raising the pressure on Berlin to respond to Kyiv's pleas and send its own shipment of vehicles into the battlefield.

"The Germans have already received our request for consent to the transfer of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine," Mariusz Blaszczak said on Twitter. "I also appeal to the German side to join the coalition of countries supporting Ukraine with Leopard 2 tanks. This is our common cause, because it is about the security of the whole of Europe!"

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‼️🇺🇦🏴☠️"Considered not as soldiers, but as meat," mobilized soldiers from the 25th Airborne Brigade of the AFU; they refused to go to the meat grinder and decided to "stand up for their rights."
The footage was reportedly taken a month ago.

The men say, "And here's the new meat." and are the same as us. We will try to defend our rights, but it is unlikely.

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❗️ Negotiations between Turkey, Sweden and Finland on a NATO bid have been postponed indefinitely at Ankara's request, a source stated to RIA Novosti

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The Biden administration is leaning toward sending a significant number of Abrams M1 tanks to Ukraine and an announcement of the deliveries could come this week, U.S. officials said.

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🇨🇿 Czech Republic cannot supply Ukraine with Leopard 2 tanks because it needs them for the country's own security, Czech prime minister says

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Lines of Fate

by Roman Donetsky

I could make fun of the newest pearl of domestic diplomacy [quoted below] but I don't want to. Everything is serious. Extremely serious. First of all, on the other side of the front, the human trappers have begun to rampage. They pick up future grunts on the street, catch them with the help of ambulances, attack them from dark alleyways, corral them in the markets... The aim is to recruit as much cannon fodder infantry as possible. And no one is interested in their quality or morale. The former is superfluous, against the backdrop of the delivery of all kinds of military equipment, together with the crews to operate it, and the latter—it will be provided by Kraken and Azov. You cannot have a black caricature of Stalin's USSR without barrier troops.

The second sign of things to come are the purges—the Ministry of Defense is being cleansed, Lyusia Arestovich and Kirill Timoshenko have been fired, three governors of front-line regions have been removed. Those governors whose hands are not covered in blood. Those who could have decided that the European “dream” and ruins, possibly radioactive, do not correlate well with each other. The clown and his minion Yermak (or, rather, it is the other way around, but it makes no difference) have been trapped like wolves. Surrounded by Western agents of influence. And so that these also do not tremble, they have prohibited the officials to travel abroad. The NATO Squid Game—whoever survives will come out with money. Those who don't, won't. Good luck. There is still a chance—the Soviet bunkers are solid.

And, finally, the weapons deliveries. Germany’s uppity objections have been crushed. Poland is handing over its tank troops. Denmark and maybe the Swedes and Finns will join in. And hundreds of Leopards without crews... there will be crews. It will be like in the Inhabited Island [a novel by the Strugatsky brothers]:

At the tip of the Steel Bridgehead they'll line up three or four tank brigades and back them up with the army corps, and behind the army they'll let in barrier squads of Guardsmen on heavy tanks equipped with ray emitters. Scum like me will rush forward to escape the rays, criminals and army men will rush forward in a fit of induced enthusiasm, and evasions from such a norm, which will inevitably arise, will be destroyed by the fire of the Guardsmen scum.

No small number of Polish żolnierzy and German soldaten will remain in the hospitable Ukrainian soil...But who [on the other side] cares?

The Baltics have a special role. Were they being fattened up all these years for nothing? It is an honorable role. To provoke Russia into a new front. Yesterday, Estonia blocked the Gulf of Finland. After which relations were broken off and ambassadors mutually expelled with all three limitrophes. The next step is war. Or military convoys from St. Petersburg to Kaliningrad. Whatever works. Although knowing the Baltics—the convoys will be attacked.

To sum up the news - there is a coup d'etat in Kiev. The NATO puppets who had the slightest smidgen of introspection have been replaced by NATO puppets who do not care one bit about their NAZIya. The NATO military tourists are preparing to go in, as I predicted, and the Baltics are provoking World War III. Of course the West is not crazy, of course they don't want tens of millions of dead bodies, but they are seriously pushing. To the extremes. They have no choice—the alternative is the defeat of Kiev in the foreseeable future. And they can't allow that. Not to the slightest. A criminal cannot punish the sheriff. It doesn't work that way. That would bring down the myth about all that’s good in the world. For the sake of the myth’s salvation, all these subhumans, whether from Kiev or Berlin, will be sacrificed. Americans do not feel any pity at all.

Link to Source: https://donrf.livejournal.com/1304003.html

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❗️ Spain, which was among the first to promise Kiev tanks, may repair and upgrade its Leopard in one month, but is postponing the issue - the newspaper El Mundo quoted its sources.

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When we return, we'll destroy it all back - the Ukrainians threatening the people of Mariupol.

" - You know, these are the messages:
"Soon, the armed forces of Ukraine will deal with illegal buildings! Glory to Ukraine!"
We get thousands a day, thousands! I have a video that has gained 5 million views.., one about new buildings, and now a third of the messages are like this: "The AFU will come, destroy everything, demolish everything." And another third: "We will kill you." The AFU will come and kill everyone; the SBU will go and kill everyone. What? What else can you do [apart from menacing?] What have you built in 30 years? What have you achieved? You have all the cities built by the Soviet Union. Power plants are Soviet. Everything is Soviet!"

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