Offensive actions near Ugledar and Artemovsk are developing successfully, according to Russian Defense Minister Shoygu.

According to the Defense Minister, Ukraine understands that it is impossible to defeat Russia militarily, so it continues the tactics of intimidation by striking Russian civilians, while the US and its allies openly call on the Ukrainian authorities to seize Russian territory. 

He also stated that a satellite system for all-weather remote sensing of the earth is being created in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense; it will help increase the efficiency of the troops. Experimental and development work is now underway.

Ukrainian losses in January alone amounted to over 6.5 thousand soldiers.
Also, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 26 aircraft, 7 helicopters, and 341 tanks.

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"The ban on Russian media in Europe is a defense of freedom of speech."— Joseph Borrel

Borell also said that the European Union will continue to support the opposition (anti-Kremlin and anti-Russian) media in Russia, as they are the defenders of human rights and civil society. 

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During the assault operations to liberate the village of Blagodatnoye, the "musicians" had to not only cross the Bakhmutovka River but also overcome the heights occupied by the enemy.

So, in one of the locations, a Ukrainian sniper interfered with the promotion—a girl who, for her own reasons, aimed most often at the groin.
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"There's a tower where a sniper worked, a girl." She didn't let us pass at all. Sniper, machine gunner, and submachine gunner—they work together, so you cannot hear the exit and the sounds of a sniper working somewhere (the machine gunners suppress or drown the sounds of sniper ). This tactic is not new; it has long been known. Here is the turret from which it fired; it worked in cold blood, mostly trying to hit the groin area. "But we were making progress anyway, and now, as you can see, we're here."

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Josep Borell accused Russia and Sergey Lavrov personally of "information manipulation and spreading lies." Russia uses information manipulation and interference as the most important tools of this war. This war is not just about using explosives, bombs, and bullets to kill people. It's about the minds of people, about how to win the spirit, the intellect, and the understanding of people. And I perceive, from my personal experience, in very concrete terms, that this battle continues. Minister Lavrov is touring Africa again these days—Mali, Eritrea—well, those are easy countries for them, but others are not so easy. and Lavrov is spreading lies there about who's to blame for what's going on.

It is a battle we must win  !🤡 Borell wrote on his Twitter account.

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Ramzan Kadyrov believes that the special military operation in Ukraine will end before the end of this year.

"The West will fall to its knees, and, as usual, European states will have to interact and cooperate with the Russian Federation in all spheres," predicts the head of Chechnya.

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Ammo supply chain crisis: Ukraine war tests Europe in race to re-arm —Financial Times

Manufacturers struggle to replenish national weapons stockpiles and meet demand from Kiev.

Ukraine’s battle against Russia is consuming ammunition at unprecedented rates, with the country firing more than 5,000 artillery rounds every day — equal to a smaller European country’s orders in an entire year in peacetime.

The dramatic shift to a war footing is creating a supply chain crisis in Europe as defence manufacturers struggle to ramp up production to replenish national stockpiles as well as maintain supplies to Ukraine.

Nearly a year since Russia’s invasion, the pace of demand for ammunition and explosives is turning into a test of Europe’s industrial production capacity in a race to re-arm.

It is a war about industrial capacity,” said Morten Brandtzæg, chief executive of Norway’s Nammo, which makes ammunition and shoulder-fired weapons.

He estimates Ukraine has been firing an estimated 5,000-6,000 artillery rounds a day, which he said is similar to the annual orders of a smaller European state before the war.

The pressure on producers has not been helped by lingering supply chain bottlenecks following the coronavirus pandemic, a lack of production capacity and a shortage of critical raw materials for some explosives, which is holding back efforts to increase output.

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The weapons seized by the Russians on the battlefield in Ukraine ended up in Iran, where Iranian experts will try to recreate them. In return, Iran promised Russia missiles, but has not yet provided anything.
It is reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to the Wall Street Journal.

"According to officials, Moscow provided Iran with weapons captured on the battlefield in Ukraine, which they are trying to reconstruct," the publication writes.
They note that Russia and Iran continue to cooperate in various areas. In particular, Iran began to serve all Russian creditors. Now the banking systems of these two countries are connected.

In addition, as the United States warned, Iran agreed to provide Moscow with ballistic missiles. So far, however, there is no indication that Tehran has sent missiles to Russia.

The publication recalled that the Kremlin plans to create a factory in Russia for the production of Iranian drones.
https://ukranews.com/en/news/913335-russia-handed-over-weapons-to-iran-which-it-seized-in-ukraine-and-iran-promised-to-provide-missiles
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Morgues are packed with bodies of Ukrainian soldiers — Outnumbered and Worn Out, Ukrainians in East Brace for Russian Assault(Article by The New York Times)

The New York Times has an interesting article on the eastern front and how it is changing. In particular, using the village of Nevskoye in the Luhansk region as an example, the publication reports that the Russian Armed Forces, advancing, are launching more and more artillery strikes on the outskirts of the village. "Now they (strikes) are becoming more and more frequent, as the Russian troops are making their way forward." The newspaper relays the feelings of the residents of the village in question. 

In addition to confirming the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the Liman direction, the newspaper also reports high losses in the ranks of the AFU and the strong moral wear and tear of the soldiers. "Tired Ukrainian soldiers complain that the Russian Armed Forces already outnumber them in weapons and men, and doctors in hospitals speak of growing losses..." The "Karpatskaya Sech" battalion, located near Nevsky, has lost about 30 fighters in recent weeks, and at one frontline hospital in the Donbas, the morgue was packed with the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers in white plastic bags. In another hospital, stretchers with wounded troops covered in gold foil thermal blankets crowded the corridors, and a steady stream of ambulances arrived from the front nearly all day long.

A military surgeon at that hospital, Myroslav Dubenko, 36, scrolled through photographs of soldiers with ghastly injuries: a lower jaw blasted off, half of a face missing. One soldier was rushed in with his throat sliced open from ear to ear. Dr. Dubenko was able to quickly repair the damage, and the soldier survived.

“In civilian life, you know that no matter how horrible your shift is, it will end sooner or later,” Dr. Dubenko said. “Here, you never know when it will end.”

The general message of the article is quite simple: the AFU does not have enough people and weapons to contain the onslaught of the RF Armed Forces at the Eastern Front.

This conclusion is indirectly confirmed by the increased flow of videos and photos of killed and captured Ukrainian soldiers at the recaptured positions in recent weeks. It is also interesting that the publication particularly emphasizes the unpleasant fact for the AFU of the appearance of T-90M tanks on the battlefield.

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Kremennaya area

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The explosion of a T-64BV AFU tank

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Footage of the enemy DRG being hit by a guided missile. The result - four two-hundredths. Zaporozhye direction. Groupings [V].

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🇱🇻A drone manufacturing facility caught fire in Latvia.

According to local media, the flames spread quickly. At least 50 firefighters are working at the site.

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🇺🇦💥 In Kramatorsk and Slovyansk there are powerful explosions, rumbling and earth-shaking

It is possible that an ammunition depot on the outskirts of the city was hit. At the moment there is no exact information about what happened.

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🔞🔞🔞Terrifying shots: the AFU used chemical weapons against our soldiers

In a scary video filmed by Ukrainians, our fighters were hit by a drone in the water.
After dropping a chemical munition, one of the soldiers has convulsive convulsions...

The enemy began to use chemical weapons prohibited in the civilized world, which is a war crime.

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Lavrov - answered Borrell:

This is said by a man who cannot hide the racist essence of his vision of the world. Not so long ago, he publicly, without hesitation, said that Europe is a flowering garden, he is a gardener, and the jungle surrounds Europe, from which a threat to a flowering garden arises, so the garden should be more careful with the jungle. There is nothing to add here about who and how relates to the needs and interests of African countries. We have nothing to hide or be ashamed of. We stood at the origins of the liberation of Africa from the colonial yoke. The Soviet Union was one of the main initiators of the adoption of the declaration on granting independence to colonial countries and peoples in 1960. And it was not an imitation, as Boris Johnson recently called the Minsk agreements, but a real historical act that sealed the fall of colonial rule.

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