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situation as of 20.00 February 21, 2023

🔻In the north of Bakhmut, assault detachments of PMC "Wagner" advanced to the Bakhmut non-ferrous metal processing plant , where Ukrainian formations dug in. The assault on the territory of the enterprise is complicated by the presence of a developed network of underground utilities.

▪️Using the bridgehead in the Stupka area, the "Wagnerites" advanced towards the village of Yagodnoye and entrenched themselves along the road from Berkhovka . Fighting continues on the hill adjacent to the settlement.

▪️Fighting is also taking place on the northern and eastern outskirts of Berkhovka, as well as near Dubovo-Vasilevka . According to some reports, the assault detachments entered Berkhovka and are trying to push through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an important logistical point of the Ukrainian group near Bakhmut.

▪️The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fear the intensification of the offensive in the direction of Zaliznyansky and Minkovka . Reinforcements have been deployed to Minkovka, where the forward command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is located.

🔻 Positional battles continue in Bakhmut. Among the members of the Ukrainian formations, there is talk of preparing a defense line in Chasov Yar and the surrounding settlements, including Novodmitrovka , in case Bakhmut is abandoned.

🔻In the south-west of Bakhmut, units of the 113th brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine resumed the assault on the positions of the Wagner PMC, three kilometers south-west of Krasnoe .

▪️Tactical aircraft and artillery support the advancing forces. Up to 200 tons of ammunition are transported daily from the Grodovka station to Bakhmut.

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He says he appeals to the people of Russia that the US and Europe do not seek to destroy Russia yet then later goes on and says they will punish Russia by imposing the toughest sanctions regime

What a contradictory senile old fool

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Fortress within a fortress — Wagner PMC assault teams in Artemovsk are advancing through the northern regions towards the AZOM plant

Stormtroopers continue their offensive in the northern suburbs of the city - at the moment it is known about the battles already in the center of Berkhovka and on the outskirts of Yagodnoye, reports of the capture of which turned out to be premature. The general direction of the blow through these villages is the village of Artemovskoye (Khromovo), from where the highway and not yet cut road to Chasov Yar (marked with the number 1 on the map) goes.

At the same time, an offensive is underway in the northern districts of the city in the direction of the center. Here, on the way of the “orchestras”, there is a large industrial zone crowned with the “Artemovsky Metal Processing Plant”, which is a large facility with dense industrial buildings, underground utilities and mines tens of meters deep.

Taking into account the experience of the special operation, according to which the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine actively use industrial complexes as fortifications to conduct defense from them (Azovstal in Mariupol, Azot in Severodonetsk, Knauf in Soledar, as well as mines, and so on), we can expect that the battle in this area will not be easy, unless, of course, the next insiders come true about the withdrawal of militants from the semi-encircled Artemovsk .

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❗️ Chinese Foreign Ministry: "The United States is profiting from the war. Their enterprises have earned a lot of money from the Ukrainian conflict."

"Will they be ashamed of it? The US has been pursuing a policy of fighting to the last Afghan. Now they want to fight to the last Ukrainian."

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 BMPT is working with cannons and AGS on Ukrainian fortifications near Kremennaya

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Armed Forces of Ukraine lost tank carriers near Kremennaya due to fuel shortage: details

On February 16, a column of APU equipment in the Drobyshev area, 40 km from Kremennaya, was hit by rocket artillery. In addition to several unarmored pickup trucks with personnel, trucks with a platform for transporting armored vehicles, handed over to the Ukrainian Armed Forces a few days ago, were destroyed.

According to preliminary information, it was planned to leave the tank trucks to the reserve units of the 66th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlements of Ploschanka, Makeevka and Nevskoye to organize a counterattack. Presumably, unarmored tank trucks based on imported civilian tractors arrived in the area under their own power from the Polish border town of Przemysl, where they were delivered by an "unknown transport company."

After many hours of surveillance from the Orlan-30 drone, the trucks were destroyed by a 300 mm Smerch multiple rocket launcher high-precision missile strike at the time of refueling. According to reports, after the delivery of fuel, the Ukrainian military were supposed to pick up the T-64BV and T-72B tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the villages of Shandrigolovo and Karpovka and take them, presumably, to the place of concentration of Ukrainian ground forces for subsequent combat use.

In order to maintain the mobility of tank units in the Izyum and Kupyansk directions, the engineering units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were forced to restore Soviet tank carriers based on the ZIL-130, damaged by Russian air and artillery strikes, but almost immediately the repair units were faced with a shortage of spare parts and the necessary equipment.

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"Urals" in the Armed Forces of Ukraine fail "under carbon copy" - the Ukrainian military-industrial complex repairs trucks at the same cost, regardless of breakdowns

Yesterday we already wrote about potbelly stoves for the Armed Forces of Ukraine under the “one for the price of two” campaign. But in the documents of the Vinnitsa Mechanical Plant, there were also larger contracts. One of them attracted the attention of Readovka - according to the contract, the company repaired 10 cars, but for some reason the repair of each of them cost the same - UAH 595 thousand (about 1.2 million rubles). It's no secret that the price of repairs depends on the nature of the breakdown, but not in Ukraine.

If we analyze similar state contracts, it becomes clear that 1.2 million rubles for the repair of tankers on the Ural chassis is the upper limit of the market price. That is, even if you need to change the headlight on a truck, this is quite suitable for the concept of “repair”. On average, comparable contracts range from a symbolic 180 thousand rubles to 1.1 million. It is noteworthy that the causes of breakdowns in the contract are not reported.

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❗️ Soldiers from the 92nd brigade continue to suffer heavy losses and threaten to come to Zelensky with weapons in their hands

Deaths and injuries in the 92nd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, bled in battles in the Donbass and in the Kharkiv region, force the military from this brigade to turn to the very top.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine complain that because of the latest law 8271, units cannot withdraw from the battlefield even after the ammunition is used up, and criminal cases are initiated against those who decide to save their lives.

Zelensky is “offered” to personally change the government that adopts such “moronic” laws, otherwise the military will come with weapons in their hands and do it themselves.

Apparently, the brigade command began to lose control over its subordinates.

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“No one is attacking Russia. There is a certain absurdity in the idea that Russia is under some kind of military threat from Ukraine or someone else,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters.

“Russia ends the conflict in Ukraine and returns home - the conflict ends. But if Ukraine stops fighting, and the United States and the coalition stop helping it fight, then Ukraine disappears from the map,” he added.

Zin Note: Nevermind that we have you surrounded by military bases and tactical missiles. Nevermind that we were behind Maidan and fund Ukraine specifically to threaten Russia. Nevermind that our explicit foreign policy is built on the idea that the USA will be a unipolar global power with no equal allowed to exist.

Are we honestly supposed to believe that Russia leaving The Ukraine would result in the cessation of weapons deliveries to the Kiev regime?

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⚡️Momentum in Washington is shifting towards sending ATACMS and F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine - Republican foreign affairs committee head

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Helicopters of [V] group covering AFU strongpoints near Ugledar

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Destruction of enemy surveillance equipment (camera and thermal imager) using guided missile by soldiers of 68th Army Corps of [V] group in Ugledar direction

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