🇺🇦🇺🇸 Ukrainian soldier from Soledar tells CNN they ran out of food, were low on water, and that they had wounded soldiers

Unidentified soldier goes on to say situation in now Russian-held Soledar, Donetsk Republic so dire they were just abandoned.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian forces have taken Artyomovsk-Bakhmut, Donetsk Republic into operational encirclement - Advisor to Head of Republic Kimakovsky.

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🦀 KRAB-BY PATTY: Mr. KRABS from SpongeBob SquarePants in bit of a pickle as Russian kamikaze drone spots Polish self-propelled Krab gun, plummets right on top of howitzer, making a good krabby patty out of it.

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⚡️France to deliver AMX10 RC tanks to Ukraine within 2 months.

This follows Polish Leopard tanks and UK commitment for up to 50 Challenger II tanks.

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⚡️ Ukrainian security forces conduct exercises on the border with Belarus - alleged saboteurs penetrating the border into the territory of Ukraine was a false alarm.

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⚡️One day after it was announced that Ukrainians would begin training on the Patriot missile defense system, at an Army base in Oklahoma - Oklahoma senator Nathan Dahm is pushing back.

🗣 [Biden's] 'America Last' policies should not be tolerated in Oklahoma - we saw how recently the Ukrainian military fired a rocket into Poland, killing 2 innocent civilians. We don’t need them practicing here, where our citizens could be under constant threat - Dahm said.

Dahm echoes other sane voices in the US in recent days, who warn the Zelensky regime may be blackmailing them into pursuing policies not in America's interests.

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SPARE US: In a cute millenial SOB story, Prince Harry has published 'SPARE', an account about the 'cruelties' of the Royal family.

Among other things, he writes that his existence was necessary only in case Prince William ever needed a blood match or organ donor, and that Prince William and King Charles would never travel in the same airplane together for fear of interrupting succession to the throne.

Meanwhile, no one cared which private jet Harry travelled in.

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⚡️NATO to transfer Airborne Warning and Control systems (AWACS) from Germany to Romania on January 17 to monitor Russian military activity.

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⚡️As many as 5000 Swiss military will guard the World Economic Forum in Davos, coming up this month.

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RUSSIA VS. ALL OF NATO: West is preparing Ukraine for a spring 'breakthrough' as a number of countries are sending weapons to Kiev, which had previously been denied.

USA and Germany are to provide the latest Patriot air defense systems and training. France, Germany, Spain, Great Britain, Poland and again US have all approved tanks and heavy artillery.

🗣 Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, says Ukraine needs 300 Western heavy tanks and 600 units of other armored vehicles to defeat Russia.

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⚡️ Capture of Soledar was made possible with consistent fire by aviation, missile forces and artillery of Russia.

Capture allows Russia to cut off the supply routes of Ukrainian troops in Artemovsk-Bakhmut, and then block the enemy troops remaining in it. - Ministry of Defense.

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⚡️Naturalized Russian citizens are also subject to mobilization - Investigative Committee Chief Bastrykin

🗣 By acquiring Russian citizenship, these people obtain not only rights, but also duties that are established by law. One of them is military service in the Armed Forces.

Over the past 5 years, more than 1 million residents and usually economic migrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus have become naturalized citizens of Russia.

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◾️Russian Federation (RF) Armed Forces defeat forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in Krasno-Lyman, Donetsk Republic (DPR, ex-Ukraine);

◾️RF Armed Forces destroy 2S1 Gvozdika "Carnation" self-propelled howitzer and three 2S3 Acacia howitzers in the Zaporozhye region, ex-Ukraine;

◾️AFU in Krasnu-Lyman lose more than 40 military personnel and 7 vehicles;

◾️Russian Aerospace Forces destroy three airplanes and a helicopter of the AFU in the liberation of Soledar, DPR;

◾️Marine units of the Baltic Fleet destroyed more than 20 AFU military in Yuzhno-Donets, DPR;

◾️Over the past 3 days, more than 700 Ukrainian servicemen and over 300 units of weaponry of the AFU are destroyed in the Soledar area;

◾️RF Armed Forces hit 117 AFU artillery units;

◾️AFU losses in Kupyansk, Kharkov amount to another 20 military personnel and 6 vehicles.

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