I have little doubt that I will be interned by Canada if this war goes on. The longer it goes, the greater the likelihood. So will my family. History is bound to repeat. However, until it does, we will fight on, to the end.

@StarsheEddy Svatovo-Kremennaya Operational-Tactical Report: The area of responsibility of the 144th Motorized Infantry Division.

Today the Smolensk and Bryansk infantry assault units stealthily approaching the forward positions of the Ukrainian army, in a short lightning attack that destroyed enemy personnel and seized trophies. It is noteworthy that those killed were mostly natives of the Lvov region.

Overall, the Ukrainians, which had lost a large number of personnel in previous days, took no attack or counterattack action for the first time in a long time.

The Ukrainian armed forces continue to actively fire artillery systems of various types. The ground between the parties' positions is literally riddled with craters and the forest belts have been shaved almost to the ground. To the south and north of the 144th Motorized Rifle Division's responsibility zone, neighbouring units are trying to break through the enemy defence, I cannot say anything about their successes, because I simply do not know.

The 3rd Motorized Infantry Division also continues to fight hard in the big and small Zhuravka gully. The Ukrainians are actively using remote mining with NATO ammunition, due to which our progress is slow.

I would like to praise once again the work of our artillery. Under the guidance of Special Forces units, our artillery has recently begun striking enemy rear areas, ammunition supply routes and personnel supply routes more frequently. In this way, we are gradually approaching the tactic of isolating combat areas, the necessity of which I never tire of repeating.

For a successful offensive it is first of all necessary to deprive the defending AFU units of the means of resistance and the ability to rotate personnel. After that, it will be much easier to carry out the assigned tasks.

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There has been NO withdrawal of Ukrainian troops—en masse—from Artyomovsk (Bakhmut). The Russian Army (Wagner PMC units) have entered the Stupki district of Artyomovsk. This is a significant advance, but not the collapse of the Ukrainian defence. Listen to @Slavyangrad. Don't rush the events.

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Russian pilots ejecting from Ka-52, February–March 2022.

Unique footage: the video shows the ejection of the crew of a Ka-52 "Alligator" helicopter, which was shot down at the beginning of the war. 

At 0:15, we see the beginning of the operation of the attack helicopter's jet-ejection system. The crew survived and continues to fight. The Ka-52 is the world's only helicopter with an ejection system that has also been battle-tested. 

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The Russian Army (Wagner PMC units) have taken the settlement of Stupochki. Clean up is ongoing.

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A Ukrainian unit fleeing from Artyomovsk (Bakhmut): “It’s hell on Earth. In a half an hour we lost 4 WIA, 2 KIA. We left in small groups. These are all who are left [from our group].”

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“It would be ridiculous to identify the Hitler cabal with the German people, with the German state. The experience of history says that Hitlers come and go, but the German people and the German state remain.

Finally, the strength of the Red Army lies in the fact that it does not and cannot have racial hatred towards other peoples, including the German people, since it has been educated in the spirit of the equality of all peoples and races, in the spirit of respect for the rights of other peoples. [...]

This is the strength of the Red Army.

It's also the weakness of the German fascist Army.”

Order No. 55 of February 23, 1942, by which Stalin congratulated the military and partisans on the 24th anniversary of the Red Army.

What a Russian spring offensive in Ukraine could look like — The Telegraph

The AFU  will eventually have to retreat from Artemovsk (Bakhmut)

Mr Zelensky this week ruled out a retreat, saying on Thursday: "No one will surrender Bakhmut.
But among many people on the ground in Donbas, there is a feeling that Ukraine will eventually have to withdraw to a new line of defence - just as it did when retreating from Severodonetsk last summer.

The small town of Chasov Yar, the last stop before Bakhmut itself, is rapidly emptying as residents flee before it too becomes a battlefield.

But Bakhmut, which has drawn in vast numbers of Ukrainian troops, tanks and other resources, may prove a diversion.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a US defence think tank, said on Friday that Russia’s main offensive effort would come further north, in the Luhansk region near the towns of Svatove and Kreminna.

A strike here might seek to catch the Ukrainians off balance in a less heavily defended area.
A Ukrainian officer based in Kharkiv told The Telegraph that intelligence showed the Russians were “getting ready” for a renewed offensive.

In an assessment that overlaps with the ISW’s prediction, he said they would probably attack from the east in an attempt to retake all the territory they lost to a Ukrainian counter-offensive in the region in September.
The first objective of that push would be to push the Ukrainians back from the critical supply line between Valyuki, a small town in Russia’s Belgorod region, to Svatove in the Luhansk region

They would then seek to cut the highway between Kharkiv and Izyum to interdict Ukrainian lines of supply to Donbas, he said. He said they did not have sufficient forces to attack Kharkiv city itself and doubted they would try.

And the Ukrainian officer in Kharkiv told the Telegraph he would not be surprised to see a strike further north straight across the border, perhaps in the Sumy region. The region has seen almost daily cross-border shelling, but no fighting since the Russian retreat in March. “There are many places they could go,” he said

But the wild card is in the south, said Kirill Mikhailov, an independent military researcher based in Kyiv.
“I don’t think they have the resources to do ‘February 24 redux’, an offensive on all fronts. But they’ve now got enough mobilised men to use them to hold the front lines, and concentrate their most experienced troops for a dangerous offensive in one area,” he said.

An attack on the southern front, which has been static for most of the war, would take advantage of the terrain and threaten the main supply routes to Ukrainian forces in Donbas.“It’s tank country down there,” he said, referring to the largely open spaces of the Black Sea lowlands.
“But they would also have to cover a lot of ground. It is 50 to 60 kilometres from the current front line to the highway from Dnipro to Donetsk.”

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🇩🇪🇺🇦 Scholz convinced Zelensky not to use Western weapons against Russian regions – Bild am Sonntag

👔 The chancellor said that there is a certain “consensus” on this score that will not lead to an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine.

📝 “Germany will keep a cool head and continue to carefully weigh all decisions going forward. Anything else would be careless and extremely dangerous,” Scholz said in an interview with BaS.

Over the past year, the German authorities have been in turn assured of the impossibility of delivering air defense systems, MLRS, tanks and aircraft. All promises collapsed before our eyes as soon as Washington stepped in.

👔 And now you should not hope too much that the distraught Ukrainian artist will not fulfill his last role as the bloody head of the Kyiv regime.

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Whoever leaves Bakhmut is a Muscovite
- Zelensky and Yermak

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The first of the four Leopard 2 tanks promised to Kyiv has been sent from Canada to Ukraine, Anita Anand, Minister of National Defense of the North American country, said.

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