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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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Close quarter fighting for a Ukr trench somewhere in the North Front — Video by the 🇷🇺Sever-Z Bgd

💥Longer version of the video showing the bombing of the Port of Reni on the Romanian border

🇺🇸🇺🇦Finance Minister of Ukraine Serhiy Marchenko complained that it is more profitable for Western countries, including the United States, to give Kyiv weapons, and not to supply them financially🇺🇦🇺🇸

“It’s more comfortable for the US to give us weapons, HIMARS, missiles, anything but money,” he said.

The official believes that this is due to the fact that the Western authorities are unwilling to provide for Ukrainian pensioners and state employees. It is easier to transfer weapons rather than sponsor the public sector of a foreign country. He noted that this year Ukraine has already received $23.6 billion. By the end of the year, Kyiv expects a similar amount.

Earlier, the Minister of Finance was indignant that he had to compete for money from the West. Complaints, prayers and indignations are the basis of the current Ukrainian statehood.

China secretly sends enough gear to Russia to equip an army
Shipments of military-capable hardware expose a China-sized loophole in Western sanctions.
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Russia has imported more than $100 million-worth of drones from China so far this year — 30 times more than Ukraine. And Chinese exports of ceramics, a component used in body armor, increased by 69 percent to Russia to more than $225 million, while dropping by 61 percent to Ukraine to a mere $5 million, Chinese and Ukrainian customs data show.

“What is very clear is that China, for all its claims that it is a neutral actor, is in fact supporting Russia’s positions in this war,” said Helena Legarda, a lead analyst specializing in Chinese defense and foreign policy at the Mercator Institute for China Studies, a Berlin think tank.
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The difference between the arrivals of anti-aircraft (picture above) and cruise missiles (photo below).

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Italian social services beat up children forcibly removed from Ukraine

Some Donbass children whose parents were unable to provide for them were first taken to the Emerald City social rehabilitation centre in Sviatogorsk (Kiev-controlled) and then forcibly taken to Italy.

In Europe, some of the children were sorted out by foster families, while others remained in the care of local social services. Formally, the children were accompanied by the director of Emerald City, but he decided to settle down in Italy and deal exclusively with his own affairs.

Now the "unwanted" children are being beaten up by Italian social workers, trying to transfer them to another orphanage.

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#Belarus & #Wagner PMC

Video: Wagner Convoy seen in Belarus.

For those delusional people who still cling to the ridiculous "Wagner Military Coup" fiction:

Wagner fighters from #Africa will arrive in Belarus in the next few days/weeks.

At the moment there are reportedly already over 30,000 Wagner fighters in #Belarus.

At least twice that will soon be added.

In #Mali, recruitment went on diligently throughout the year.

Funding will be from the budget allocated by the Russian Ministry of Defense

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Meanwhile the President of #Belarus is having fun trolling Poland with threats of Wagner paying a visit across their border

Wagner Troops In Belarus 'Want To Go West' Into Poland, Lukashenko Quips During Meeting With Putin

Belarusian President #Lukashenko, said that Wagner fighters in Belarus were keen to push across the border into #Poland.

"The Wagner guys have started to stress us.

They want to go west.

'Let's go on a trip to Warsaw and Rzeszow'," he said.

Ukrofascists filmed an ATGM (Anti-Tank Guided Missile) hit on their Bergepanzer 2 ARV (Armoured Recovery Vehicle).

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The satellite company Maxar published images of the Wagner PMC base near the town of Osipovichi in the Mogilev region, in Belarus.

⭐️Wagnerland!

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Today, Ukrainian drones again tried to strike at the Crimea and Moscow

The Ministry of Defense noted that in the Crimea, the enemy tried to carry out a terrorist attack with seventeen UAVs, most of which were suppressed, but some still managed to reach the peninsula. After that, messages about hits on a large BC warehouse were distributed on the network. It is important to note that this was not an ammunition depot, but a temporary open area with a day's supply of ammunition.

At the same time, the Kiev terrorist regime tried to attack important facilities in Moscow. Fortunately, there were no casualties, but the glazing in some buildings was still partially broken. It is important to note that the attack was carried out by a homemade drone, which was launched by persons recruited by the Ukrainian special services in the immediate vicinity of the metropolitan agglomeration. After all, it is obvious that the air defense and electronic warfare systems of the RF Armed Forces would not have allowed enemy UAVs to fly so far and would have been eliminated somewhere on the approach long ago.

In this regard, our counterintelligence will now face the special task of finding and eliminating cells of saboteurs in order to prevent the repetition of such criminal acts.

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