Soldiers of PMC "Wagner" shot down another helicopter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine over Bakhmut using MANPADS.

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Ukraine must “prevail as a sovereign, independent state” before it can formally join NATO, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Saturday, despite Kiev already considering itself a de-facto member of the Western bloc.

“NATO’s position on membership for Ukraine is unchanged,” Stoltenberg told a panel at the Munich Security Conference. “We agreed back in 2008 that Ukraine will become a member of the alliance and that is still our position.”

“Of course, what matters now is to ensure that Ukraine prevails as a sovereign, independent state. Because without having Ukraine as a sovereign and independent state, there is no way to discuss any kind of relationship between NATO and Ukraine in the future,” he continued, adding that this discussion would take place when the current conflict in Ukraine is resolved.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kupyansk section
situation as of February 18, 2023, 19:00

🔻In the Kupyansk sector, Russian units completely liberated the village of Gryanikovka to the north of Kupyansk , knocking out the territorial defense formations from the village.

▪️The Ukrainian command at night tried to conduct a counteroffensive on the areas of concentration of the RF Armed Forces in Gryanikovka to return the lost positions.
Fire support was provided by rocket and cannon artillery crews from Dvurechnaya , as well as tactical aircraft from Mirgorod. Russian soldiers repelled the attack.

▪️This night, a vehicle convoy with personnel and military equipment arrived from Grushevka to Kurilovka and Kupyansk-Uzlovoy to strengthen the front lines.

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On February 16, on behalf of the fighters of the Wagner PMC and the Akhmat battalion, Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin visited Apti Alaudinov in the hospital.

Prigozhin: 
I visited our comrade in arms, brother Apti, and we agreed that Akhmat would give us more than 100 120 mm mines.

Apti: 
We will share what we have in stock, not only mine. We know that PMC Wagner fighters do everything in their power, they are real patriots, real men. Of course we understand that 100 mines is not much, but it will be our present that will go to the fireworks, which will be done by men at that place ( Prigozhin laughs) 

Prigozhin:
Is it the American enemies who were 
trying to send you to the other side of the world, or is it your own internal enemy
Who is jealous of your success? ( about the poisoning )

Apti:
The competent authorities will deal with this. A fighter friend, a patriot of Russia, came to me and gave me a sledgehammer from Wagner. Now I have a service weapon, a sledgehammer.

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A Russian breakthrough into the Bakhmut region of Samolet (Aircraft) is not ruled out by a prominent Ukrainian military officer with the call sign Magyar.

But urges not to exaggerate its significance in case the enemy suddenly starts bragging about it with the presentation of photos.

"Let it not make you crazy if some sabotage group arranges what they all want so much - to somehow sneak up to our plane in Bakhmut and make such a good story there at dawn - to stretch their flag, take pictures so that the whole world shouts that the Russian army has finally, or not finally, hacked into Bakhmut and entered it. That's not saying anything. Let them approach the airplane. I won't give details, but let them approach," Magyar said in a video that was posted online.

The plane is in an area in the southwestern part of Bakhmut, at the exit towards Konstantinovka and not far from the road to Chasov Yar via Artemivske. Along with the northern Bakhmut-Slaviansk road, it is the main supply artery to the city. The area itself is so called because of the local landmark, the airplane monument.

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Here is an audio recording that goes through the closed chats of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to some reports, the recording was made in the 72nd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which suffered heavy losses in the battles for Ugledar.

The author of the recording intentionally writes to the recorder, turning on another phone on the speakerphone. Its discharge may indicate either a deliberate misinformation stuffing or a conflict between junior and senior brigade commanders.
One informs a certain major that several positions have been arbitrarily abandoned by subordinate soldiers, and an entire company refuses to carry out combat orders due to low training, lack of motivation, and assistance in the form of rotation, at least. The major on that wire calls for shooting the refuseniks, starting with ten people (“they will give new ones anyway”). In general, listen and judge for yourself whether it's fake or not. Unfortunately, only Russian speakers can judge that.

update. The entry is older, but it gives you a solid picture of what kind of things Ua is doing to hold its lines.

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Snow-covered liquidated AFU fighters

Judging by the video, they had been lying there for weeks and the Ukrainian commanders did not see fit to evacuate them. Most likely, relatives of these Ukrainians are now being told that "they are missing".


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‼️🔥 A massive fire at the chemical plant of Salumificio COATI in Verona with the release of toxic chemicals

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"I've had enough of it, I guess.

The Wagner PMC fighters shot down another AFU helicopter over Bakhmut with man-portable air defense systems.

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Maybe that Mi - 24 was downed after all. Kek. 😁

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Defeated enemy stronghold near Kremenna.

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Yawning Mikyla?

Betting on Ukraine victory was ‘suicidal’ – Seymour Hersh

The West didn’t even want Kiev in NATO because of corruption concerns, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist says

The US and its allies should have attempted to reach an agreement with Moscow as their belief that Ukraine can win a conflict against Russia is “suicidal,” iconic American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has argued.

Speaking in a YouTube interview with the Consortium News outlet on Friday, Hersh accused the Biden administration of making “so many bad mistakes,” adding that “it’s impossible to believe just how dumb this leadership was.”

“It was suicidal to think you can win that war, that Ukraine can win the war [against Russia]. There’s just too much corruption. That was a very, very bad decision. We should have been pushing for peace, we should have made an agreement,” the former Pulitzer Prize winner insisted.
US President Joe Biden basically “blew off NATO in Europe” by telling allies that he is backing Ukraine with its “totally corrupt government,” Hersh added. The journalist also pointed out how Kiev glorifies Stepan Bandera, “the great pro-Nazi who killed Jews like crazy during World War II.” 

 Seymour Hersh dubs Nord Stream sabotage ‘dumbest’ US act in years
“It’s just silly not to right away assure the Russian government that we weren’t interested in making Ukraine a member of NATO,” Hersh stated, referring to long-standing concerns in Moscow. “NATO didn’t want Ukraine anyway because of the corruption.” 

Hersh recently published a bombshell report which accused the US of sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines last year. He cited an informed source as explaining that explosives were planted on the bottom of the Baltic Sea by US Navy divers under the guise of a NATO exercise back in June 2022. They were detonated in late September, rendering the pipelines, which were built to deliver Russian gas to Europe through Germany, inoperable.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, as well as Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, are all “very hawkish,” according to the journalist. The trio “pushed Biden very hard” to go ahead with the sabotage because “they have long-standing incredible hatred for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin. It’s almost personal, I would guess,” Hersh claimed.  

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German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock: "If Putin decides that tomorrow he changes his course by 360 degrees, the whole world will be happy."

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Everyone has the right to be stupid, but she is abusing the privilege.