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"I confirm officially: an internal escalation of the war in Russia is inevitable and there will be different strikes on different targets. What for, by whom and why is another question.We cannot discuss objectively today - we have a lack of public information. Once again: Ukraine is not carrying out strikes against Russia, but nevertheless the logic of war and escalation of the war within Russia will be inevitable. Cities that are pampered, lazy and think they live in a different reality will also be exposed: Moscow, St Petersburg, Ekaterinburg and others. Everything will be subject to an escalation of the war, but: this escalation is Russia's internal problem."

Mikhail Podolyak announces strikes on Moscow, St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg - he explained the attack on "pampered" cities by the "logic of war".

Zelensky's office advisor Podolyak has predicted Ukrainian army strikes on Russia's biggest cities, which he called "pampered" and "lazy", but did not say who would carry them out, neither how nor why. Referring to the "escalation" of the conflict within Russia and the "logic of war" he himself invented, Podolyak openly declared his intention to strike "various targets" within our country, including Moscow, St Petersburg, Ekaterinburg and other cities.

To openly make such statements while telling the world that Ukraine is defending itself against an "aggressor country" is a clear example of the insanity of the Kiev regime. Against a background of huge losses in the ranks of the AFU, conflicts at the highest level of government, widespread mobilization and the surrender of cities, all that the Ukrainian propagandists can do now is to keep the spirit of the AFU troops alive with promises of strikes against Russian cities, the real possibility of which cannot be underestimated.

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According to our source, such urgency in transferring tanks to the AFU is due to several things.
- The AFU has a shortage of tanks. At the beginning of the war there were almost 1,500-2,000 of them, after the partners added more than 700 more. Most have already been destroyed or broken down/butchered, undergoing repairs in Poland/Czech Republic/Bulgaria/Romania. Military factories there are working for Ukraine. But the timeframe for their return to service is 3 to 9 months. There are now about 600 vehicles in service in Ukraine, but they are stretched across the defence line .
- Russia has created a strike fist of 1,500 tanks and is preparing for a march. Plus Russia is introducing newer T-90 breakout tanks, which has made life more difficult for AFU tankers, who are facing these vehicles on the battlefield and losing because they are more modernized and see more, hit harder, more accurately and farther away.
- BRoned vehicles such as MaxxPro or Kirpi etc. are inferior to tanks and become easy targets. In Bakhmut / Soledar / Seversk, the AFU lost over a hundred of vehicles. Also BMPs and APCs cannot cope with the new tanks and suffer huge losses.

The West has decided to level the playing field. To say that the 100-200 tanks being handed over will be enough for a new offensive is manipulation and nonsense. The offensive needs more than 500 vehicles not to mention artillery, SAU and large combat UAVs. 
Most likely this is defence reinforcement and an attempt to prevent the Russian Armed Forces from blitzkrieg.

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Due to the mass exodus from the battlefield, Zelensky signed law 8271, which increases the criminal liability of the military for a number of violations.
▪️Among them are failure to follow orders, escape from the battlefield, from a military unit, refusal to act with weapons, etc.
▪️Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Defense Reznikov spoke about the reasons for the law: “there are problems in certain situations with discipline”, but the Russians are to blame for this, who "incite the Armed Forces of Ukraine."

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According to CNN, the US and its allies want Ukraine to change its tactics in the spring.

At a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Deputy National Security Adviser John Finer, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, and Under Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs Colin Kahl said the US wants to suggest that Ukraine abandon the ongoing battle of attrition at Bakhmut and instead focus on mechanized maneuver warfare that uses quick, unforeseen action against Russia, sources familiar with the discussion said.

Officials said that hundreds of armored vehicles that the US and European countries have provided to Ukraine in recent weeks, including 14 British tanks, are meant to help Ukraine achieve this goal.

The push for Ukraine to change its tactics on the battlefield comes amid signs that Russian President Vladimir Putin is contemplating a major move in the next few weeks to regain the lead in the war, officials familiar with intelligence told CNN.

CIA director Bill Burns traveled to Kyiv earlier this month to brief Zelensky on the US assessment of Putin's plans, sources familiar with the conversation told CNN.
There are also signs that Putin is considering another mobilization of up to 200,000 troops, U.S. and Western officials familiar with the intelligence told CNN.

The Kremlin has begun conducting a domestic poll to gauge the popularity of the latest mobilization, two officials said. The next mobilization, according to some, will be quieter than the first, when Putin himself went on television, calling it a "partial mobilization."

In recent weeks, some senior Russian military officials have even been heard discussing the possibility of an attempt to seize Kharkiv, according to people familiar with the talks intercepted by Western and Ukrainian intelligence.

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Tactical Operational Report from Vladislav Ugolny on 24 January 2023, Part III

Advance in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut).

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The dark caricature of neo-feudal cosplay continues in Ukraine, now in Veliky Kuchuriv, in the Chernovtsy region.

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Anna Dolgareva writes about evacuees from Artyomovsk:

I spoke directly with residents of already Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), evacuated from there, today.

From the Meat Factory (Myasokombinat) district.

The area is ours already. The residents say that they crammed into basements on December 17, came out on December 19, and then Wagner soldiers in uniform without insignia dragged them out from under fire. A grandmother was dragged on a stretcher for three kilometres, one of those who saved her was wounded.

They were crying. They say, God bless our little sons.

I am passing this on, our little sons: God bless you all.

Source: @dolgarevaanna

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A small remark about the new wave of mobilization in the lands of the former Ukraine. At the beginning of the summer, Ukraine had about 1 million fighters in all its armed formations (AFU, National Guard, and the Border Guard Service). Moreover, about 400,000 were on the front line itself, as well as in the immediate rear. Kiev outnumbered us 3-4 times in personnel, thought its army was inferior in the number of artillery systems, tanks and, of course, aircraft.

Now the aim of the Ukrainians is to increase the manpower of the AFU up to 600 thousand. It is not difficult to guess where the rest, those mobilized during 6 successive waves of mobilization, have gone. I write this specially for the doubting citizens and home-blogger pseudo-analysts.

In the spring and summer, Zaluzhny was able to stop us and go on the offensive, using a huge amount of manpower. The losses of the AFU are very high, and soldiers these days (as I have written many times) are not an endless resource and are much more expensive than equipment.

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🇺🇦The President of Ukraine signed a law that strengthens the criminal liability of the military for failure to comply with orders

Law 8271, increases the criminal liability of the military for such violations:

▪️failure to comply with orders;
▪️ escape from the battlefield, from the military unit;
▪️ Refusal to act with weapons.

This was announced by the People's Deputy Zheleznyak.

📕 As historians later point out, "it was a fatal decision of the president, after which everything only got worse." But then - later, and now such documents can only emphasize the difficult situation in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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The dependence of the IAEA on the United States does not allow counting on the impartiality of its inspectors on the issue of the presence of ammunition on the territory of Ukrainian nuclear power plants, said Renat Karchaa, adviser to the general director of the Rosenergoatom concern.

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