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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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Soledar direction
situation at the end of February 4, 2023

🔻In the Soledar sector, assault detachments of the Wagner PMC are attacking the positions of the 10th Airborne Forces of Ukraine on the outskirts of Razdolovka , and are also moving westward from the village of Sakko and Vanzetti to Vasyukovka .

▪️Clashes continue in the vicinity of Krasnaya Gora and Paraskovievka . The enemy suffers significant losses: the Ukrainian command withdrew in the direction of Slavyansk separate units of the 46th detachment of the DShV and 147th about 116th TRO from Krasnaya Gora .

▪️Ukrainian UAV crews monitor the areas of advance of the RF Armed Forces and provide target designation of cannon and rocket artillery in the vicinity of Blagodatny .

🔻In Bakhmut , the "Wagnerites" entered the Stupka area in the north of the city. Fierce battles are going on in urban areas. Statements about a breakthrough in the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not true - Ukrainian formations continue to resist.

At the same time, the partial withdrawal of units from the northern suburbs of Bakhmut and the departure of 63 mechanized brigades from the city yesterday indicate preparations for a possible surrender of the garrison. Now the Armed Forces of Ukraine are concentrating their efforts on holding the route to Chasy Yar in order to preserve the logistics hub.

▪️At the same time, intense fighting continues in the industrial zone on the eastern outskirts, as well as in residential areas in the southern part of the city, where assault squads are attacking the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Pervyy Radyansky Street.

🔻Southwest of Bakhmut , Russian units are advancing in the direction of the section of the Chasov Yar - Bakhmut highway. The Wagnerites advanced towards Krasnoe - less than one and a half kilometers remained to the suburbs.

▪️The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is transferring manpower and armored vehicles from Konstantinovka to the vicinity of Chasov Yar . At the same time, additional defensive lines are being prepared in Konstantinovka itself.

▪️Russian artillery is conducting a massive shelling of the areas where enemy reinforcements are concentrated on the Konstantinovka -Chasov Yar - Bakhmut highway.

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While a retreat from Artemovsk cannot be confirmed, the situation for the AFU is becoming more difficult by the hour. Several reports indicate that the Western masters want Ukraine to retreat to a stronger line of defense as the RF did when faced with the potential for a meat grinder in Kharkov and Kherson. However, all reports indicate that Zelensky and his circle are willing to hold Bakhmut to the last Ukrainian.

These gains and the turning fortunes are the result of the calculated decisions of the Russian military leaders and the grit and determination of the Wagner Orchestra. I'd give the latter much more credit than the former, but ultimately, given limited resources, I believe that the leadership made the right decisions to prepare for this eventuality.

The Spring brings new wunderwaffen, glide bombs and heavy tanks/armored vehicles, and the possibility of another Ukro Offensive. The Crimea is the big fish for them, but we'll see if they even get those plans in motion. Really, they'd need 5 times as many tanks as the West is currently offering, and far more than that relative to what we will actually see delivered.

Still, be prepared for a bloody and brutal slog. There are no easy days ahead. I'm sure we'll see what else the West and the Kyiv puppets have up their sleeve before this is all over.

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The French Parliament requested a debate on the supply of weapons to Kyiv. The initiative came from a coalition of leftist forces.

Legislators urge the authorities not to become a party to the conflict.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 USA withdraws Russian oil products for Bulgaria and Croatia from sanctions

The owners took pity on the freezing lackeys and allowed them to warm themselves with Siberian gas at the end of winter.

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CyberspecNews:

🇺🇦BMP hit by Kornet missiles (double tap)

1st half of video is from the thermal sight view, 2nd half is view from a drone

Zin Note: These Kornet missiles are waiting for that shiny new Western hardware!

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