Footage of a Ukrainian kamikaze UAV flying near the Kolomenskaya metro station in Moscow.

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FSB (Russian Security Service): Vessels passing through the Kerch Strait are being checked, traces of explosives were found in the hold of a foreign dry cargo ship

▪️The ship was heading from Turkey to the port of Rostov-on-Don to load grain.
▪️Traces of dinitrotoluene and tetryl were found in it, as well as signs of third-party interference in the structural parts of the cargo ship.
▪️In order to prevent terrorist and sabotage actions, inspections of ships passing through the Kerch Strait are being carried out.
▪️It was established that at the end of May the ship was in the Ukrainian port of Kiliya. At the same time, in July, in the Turkish port of Tuzla, the ship's crew, consisting of 12 citizens of Ukraine, was completely changed, and the name of the dry cargo ship was also changed.
▪️This may indicate the possibility of using a foreign civil vessel to deliver explosives to the territory of Ukraine.
▪️A decision was made to ban the passage of a vessel under the navigable arch of the transport crossing through the Kerch Strait with its further departure outside the territorial sea of the Russian Federation.

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The Russian Foreign Ministry called the UAV attack on the center of Moscow an act of international terrorism. But most countries in the world consider it an act of war, not terrorism, because the target was a military facility, the buildings of the Ministry of Defense. Most countries of the world do not resent the actions of Kiev, but wonder why Moscow does not strike at the decision-making centers of the Ukrainian government?

Translated from Markov's logic
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Translated from Ukrainian channel:

Defense Minister (Ukrainian) Reznikov engages in populism and catches the hype, in an attempt to give Ukrainians false hope, stating that Ukraine can be taken into NATO as early as 2024 at the summit in Washington.
Everyone understands that this will not happen. The Americans themselves don't need it. Why would they take a barbarian into their “order”, whose role is just to be expendable.

The purpose of such a statement by Reznikov is simple, it is necessary to give people hope so that they continue to die and fight, not paying attention to corruption, lawlessness of the elites, nepotism, chaos, poverty, and so on.

In reality, one can just as well say that by 2039 Ukraine can land on Mars, become the second Switzerland, conquer the world with new technologies, and become the best economy in the world. This is all from the same "opera" of false statements.

Think

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'Anything to declare?' 'Yes, we've got two rocket launchers in the back of the van': British couple are fined after revealing military weapons from Ukraine to French customs
Two rocket launchers from Ukraine were found in British couple's car at Calais
The Daily Mail

A British couple were fined after they told French custom officials they had two rocket launchers from Ukraine in the back of their van.

The so-called 'Buster Bunkers' were found wrapped in cellophane in the back of their van during a routine search by an official in Calais ahead of their journey to the UK.

'He asked if they had anything to declare while they were queuing up for the ferry,' said an investigating source.

'The reply from the young couple was a simple yes – they wanted to declare two rocket launchers and other military equipment that they had been given in Ukraine while on a humanitarian mission.'

As well as the rocket launchers, thought to be American-made M141s, there were 14 bullet casings and the remains of a bulletproof jacket that had been shot to pieces.

An emergency was declared, and people evacuated from the area before bomb disposal experts were scrambled to the port.

All of it was found to be 'decommissioned' but was destroyed anyway, said the investigating source.

The couple, who have not been identified, were arrested on May 7 before appearing in court this week.

They said the equipment represented 'symbols of victory' that they had been given as presents while working in Ukraine.

'I'm not a collector,' said one of the defendants. 'They were gifts in thanks – symbols of the victory of the Ukrainians, which earned us a lot of trouble at the border.'

His partner said they had been in Ukraine for four days, adding: 'We contacted the English authorities who told us that it was possible to come back with such equipment.

'Unfortunately for us – and we found out the hard way – the transportation of this kind of thing is prohibited in France.'

The couple were handed a customs fine after being convicted of 'transporting Category C weapons without legitimate reason'.

Disposable single-shot, shoulder-fired rocket launchers such as the M141 are widely used by the Ukrainians in their war against Russia.

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This time there was nothing more than the collection of harmless souvenirs, bravely intercepted and destroyed by the French customs. When something more sinister will happen, we wouldn't have it on the news — only the consequences.
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Perhaps I will stand up for ukies, who are now actively criticized on the pages of leading Western newspapers. They say they were advancing not according to NATO standards, and in general they did everything differently than the military manuals of the Alliance prescribe.

I am 100% sure that the Ukrainian infantry is much better prepared than any Western army. I would love to see how German, Polish or even American soldiers advanced for 2 months under constant artillery fire, suffering monstrous losses.
The same goes for defensive actions. Most likely, a modern soldier of the army of the Western world will not be able to sit in trenches bombarded with shells and air bombs and continue to hold positions.

The war in Ukraine, unlike all other wars after WWII, requires a colossal effort of human strength. Hundreds of thousands of dead, an endless stream of echelons with ammunition, fights at a dagger distance in the forests near Kremennaya or in the ruins of Bakhmut, forcing and overcoming water barriers, combat drones constantly hanging overhead. The polygons of England or Germany cannot prepare for such a thing.

In addition, a huge amount of effort is required from the state, the industry must bring to the surface such volumes that in peacetime could not even be dreamed of. Right now, Kiev is changing the lives of its people for the supply of military equipment and for money for the comfortable existence of the Zelensky clique. The sounding criticism from the West hints that the owner is not satisfied with the investments, only the owner himself was captured by his views on the war.

The seemingly indestructible military machine of the West, especially advanced military equipment, in a collision with an equal enemy, turned out to be far from being a wunderwaffe and, in fact, the prestige of the military-industrial complex and military thought of NATO, now rests only on the stubbornness of Ukrainian soldiers. It would be funny to look at some Danes or Norwegians storming another "strategic forest line" and losing up to 10 percent of their personnel per day.

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The static front in the Svatovo-Kremennaya area began to move seriously. The Airborne Forces and the Brave have made good progress and maintain the momentum of the offensive. The enemy is losing strongholds, the first line of defense has been broken through. In short, the Airborne Forces and the troops of the Central Military District seem to have gone farther in a few days than ukies in almost two months of a "test offensive" in the south. I am generally silent about the losses of the ukies have suffered.

In fact, the direction of Svatovo-Kremennaya is very important, from here the shortest path to Slavyansk and in general this section of the front is extremely difficult due to terrain features.

On New Year's Eve, the ukies rushed to Kremennaya, hoping to cut the road in the area of ​​Staraya Krasnyanka. Now the situation has changed and the enemy is already making every effort so that his defense does not collapse under the blows of Russian army.

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Combined attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Crimea

In the early morning, Ukrainian formations once again attacked the Crimean peninsula. First, more than a dozen drones were shot down by air defense systems of the 31st division of the RF Armed Forces over Kirovsky, Krasnoperekopsky and Dzhankoy. According to the Ministry of Defense, 17 UAVs were destroyed.

This raid is quite unique in terms of route. The drones took off from the Dolgintsevo airfield near Krivoy Rog and passed along the Nikolaev region to Odessa, and from there were directed to the Crimea.

UAVs covered a considerable distance — more than 500 km. The choice of such a path indicates the development of new, more complex routes to mislead the Russian troops.

❗️ A little later, Su-24 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force fired four Storm Shadow cruise missiles: three at an ammunition depot in the vicinity of Volny and one at a repair base near Novostepne. Unfortunately, all four hit the mark.

Together with the attack on Saturday, as well as a few days ago on the hangar in Stary Krym (there were also Storm Shadows), the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already used British-French weapons on the Russian peninsula three times.

📌The intensification of attacks on the Crimea with various types of weapons, together with the intensified counter-battery struggle along the front in the Zaporozhye direction, confirms the preparation for a new phase of the offensive.

Now the Armed Forces of Ukraine are implementing last year's scenario, trying to knock out as many artillery and military supply points in the deep rear as possible, which is what the South Wind writes about. The goal is extremely simple — to create favorable conditions for breaking through the defense.

And this problem must be solved not by hushing up, but by decisive actions. In the current situation, the grouping of troops in the southern direction runs the risk of being in a losing position in the face of superior enemy forces. The destruction of the port infrastructure of Ukraine is certainly important, but we must not forget about the decommissioning of logistics points and supply routes for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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