❗️Putin said that "Russia hasn't even started yet." I have a big request said Solovyov: let's get started. We all need to think a little together. We have two lives in one country. Most residents of the Russian Federation have heard that a special operation is underway, but they believe that it is “somewhere out there” and does not particularly affect their lives in any way. Given the excellent work of the Russian government, which manages to level the problems in the economy.

There is a second life, which is “everything for the front, everything for victory”, which plows from morning till night, which worries. <...> I understand your righteous anger and your resentment! Take a weapon and go to defend the Motherland from the Nazis. Stand shoulder to shoulder with the military from Lugansk and Donetsk. We are really at war with NATO. And here the political leadership decides how to do and what to do.

SolovyovLive

TV debate about current tactics of Russia helping people in Donbass region and dealing with Nazis in Ukraine.

Russia and China share the understanding that a unipolar world has become impossible and that a “new reality” is coming, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
“We believe - in unison with our Chinese comrades - that the existence of a unipolar world is impossible,” Peskov told journalists on Tuesday.
https://www.rt.com/news/562709-china-unipolar-world-peskov/

It is very indicative in a way - Russian MOD has become humble buyer of foreign military equipment. They need to admit (and, thanks God - they did) that it is a Result that really matters; not a pride and vanity. It took about two month (may be more) to accept a simple truth - if you can not produce it in sufficient quantity - just go and buy it. Iran - is a beautiful country with a millenia long history. I ❤️ Iran (Persia).
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For several days now, passions have been running high among us and disputes have been going on around the unexpected success of the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the Kharkiv region, as a result of which our units left most of the territories liberated in this region: what was it, who is to blame and what to do?
The statement of our Ministry of Defence that “a decision was made to regroup the Russian troops” and “for this purpose an operation was carried out to curtail and organize the transfer of a group of troops” does not reassure - everyone remembers the heavy battles for the cities we have now abandoned, and the fate of our military citizens who supported our Ukraine, now remaining in these territories, cannot but excite the Russian society.
In principle, it is clear that the main reason is the underestimation of the enemy, and we are talking about both the capabilities and potential of Ukraine, and the degree of Western involvement in the conflict. And this applies not only to the specific Kharkov situation, but also to the entire course of conflict, during which we initially act in fewer numbers than the enemy and tried to maintain "moral superiority" principle.
Therefore, the voices are sounding louder that it is time to stop the special military operation and move on to a full-fledged war, with the mobilization of everybody and everything, because otherwise we cannot win, as well as the demands to punish those responsible for the current retreat, which they are trying to present almost as "catastrophe at the front." There are already talks about “agreement” and “betrayal at the top”, that is, everything that we remember well from the events of 2014-15, and, more importantly, from the history of the Russo-Japanese and World War I.
But despite the fact that our military opponents are undoubtedly engaged in the dispersal of defeatism, all-pervasiveness and panic, now you can not be afraid of a repetition of the scenario of 1915-17 - when during the war the Russian state was defeated from the inside under the idea of "stupidity or betrayal" at the top (it was understood that there were both, that is, the power is both weak and betrays). Trust in Vladimir Putin remains at a very high level, which was shown by the last local elections.
And the existing mistrust of society towards a part of the elite, which they are trying to inflate to hatred for the elite as such, although it is an important factor in our life, still cannot be decisive. And even more so, it is not capable of developing into a denial of the institutions of power and the state as such. Because the understanding of the problems, weaknesses and even inborn defects in our current system does not overshadow the main thing - the unity of the people in the name of achieving victory. Victory over your own delusions, illusions and mistakes.
Yes, because our main goal is not even the return of Ukraine to the Russian world, not the liquidation of the Western project of Ukraine as anti-Russia - everything is clear with this. Our main goal is to build a sovereign, strong and fair Russia. Which is not equal to the Russian Federation either in the territorial or in the conceptual sense.
After the catastrophe of 1991, we tried to build a state on part of the territory of the Russian world, but at first we were engaged in primitive Europeanization, that is, copying Western institutions and laws to enter the "golden billion", and then we wanted to build our own West at home. Independent, but generally the same as the sample. It did not work out.
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However, the mobilisation in Russia is not needed and would be a step in a wrong direction. It certainly would cause popular unrest and protests. Massive mobilisation will cause disorganisation in the fragile country's economy and economic collapse. Untrained troops would carry heavy losses, and that is what collective West wants Russia to do. That's exactly why Putin is opposing mass mobilisation (what is clearly expressed by the Kremlin speakers). Ukraine can not win over Russia, but the internal unrest may.

The Victory will come, though on the way to it there will be many more blows and defeats - because nothing is given just like that and you have to pay for everything. To pay for 1991, for the devastation and failures of the 1990s, for the illusions of the 2000s... For a ruined great country and the conviction that we can build a new Russia without restoring the unity of the Russian world and in peace with the West, without striving for truth and justice as the foundations of Russian life.
All of us - and the president much more than others - are all aware of the weaknesses and even vices of our current state system and elite, of the "weakest links" on which many things are being hold together. But we also know that we, as a people, have a strong side - the ability to mobilize, to serve wholeheartedly and honestly, to go towards the goal, regardless of any obstacles. It is thanks to these qualities that our country, the largest and one of the most powerful in the world, has arisen - and thanks to them it has risen from the ashes more than once.
Now we have got rid of illusions and are renewing ourselves and our country. And we all know that there is no such force that could interfere with us, except for ourselves, our own disbelief in ourselves and conflicts among ourselves. But if we understand and remember this, then we will not allow it, and we will certainly win. And in Ukraine, and the West - and ourselves.
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The Kremlin does not discuss the issue of full or partial mobilization of those liable for military service in the Russian Federation. This was announced by the press secretary of President Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov.

“At the moment, no, this is out of the question,” he answered the journalist’s question about whether the issue of full or partial mobilization is being considered in Russia.

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The commander of the “Vostok” battalion in the DPR Ministry of Internal Affairs, the ex-commander of the Donetsk “Alpha” Alexander Khodakovsky (“Skif”) in his Telegram channel raises the question of a turning point in the course of conflict.

“Many military correspondents are directly related to the military department and are largely dependent on it. Now there is such a situation that some solutions are required, and one of them is mobilization. But to come to the president with this proposal directly is to sign in impotence, and therefore the message is dispersed through social networks, so that “where necessary” they notice and make a decision themselves. The tactics are clear.

I would like to reproach myself with inconsistency: on the one hand, I am dejected by the results of this stage of the war (I knew that we would stop, I didn’t even dream of moving back), on the other hand, I am against general mobilization. How then to turn the tide of events?

Let's do it again.

The reason for what is happening in the first place is not the lack of people, but their careless use, that is, the organization of the process.

If this approach is maintained, the shortage will be constant, no matter how much you mobilize the people, and Russia will be overwhelmed by a wave of funerals in the absence of the desired result, which will lead to a serious crisis.

The shortage is just formed by a simplified approach, and to continue to cultivate it is just to grind our resource in the meat grinder of war. I'm sorry that like thinking people write rash words.

Mobilization of the economy, society, the formation of a people's militia from volunteers, partial mobilization of specialists in university specialties - YES!

Combat units need to be filled with those who served in them earlier and have qualifications ... I am ready to return to my 331st paratrooper regiment - I was a good foreman of the company during the conscription service...

But just declare a general mobilization by the hands of the military - things will begin that you never dreamed of. This will be a powerful blow to the country, which it will not withstand.

Vladlen Tatarsky, a smart guy, writes: without bulletproof vests and helmets, with an AK-47 - I don’t care - but you give mobilization. What's next? To whom will you give them? I have fewer people than I would like, but I experience the main difficulty not in this, but in the fact that for hours I cannot find the positions of the enemy from which he is hitting us - yesterday two light “three hundredths”.

I can’t, because there are no means of artillery reconnaissance. I can't because their electronic warfare won't let me fly. And if suddenly I can, then I don’t have enough range to cover them or I don’t have enough BC ... I can’t figure out and screw them up at the stage of formation of battle formations before deploying to the attack, when they are crowded and represent a good target - all for the same reasons.

How will additional infantry help me here? So the approach must be comprehensive, and this process is complex and requires a change in the type of thinking.

And also remember that the main scourge of the military department, about which I wrote more than once, is an attempt to create complete secrecy, that is, lack of control: “everything that happens a mile away stays a mile away”, and we will only give up what will not disturb anyone's sleep.

Therefore, military officers are not allowed into positions, and if they are, then a person with a camera walks behind them and takes pictures so that the military commander does not say anything superfluous ... And not because the enemy will see it - the enemy is aware of us better than ours - but because the first leader will see it.”

⚡️ Ukrainian terrorists shelled Perevalsk in the LPR from HIMARS

Today, at about eight in the morning, the enemy fired 6 missiles at Perevalsk (LPR) from the HIMARS MLRS.

As a result of the shelling, a fifteen-year-old teenager was killed, 4 people were injured. The building of the Perevalsk College was destroyed, reports the representative office of the LPR in the JCCC.

Yesterday, Lysychansk was under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian militants purposefully fired from HIMARS at the place where hot meals were distributed for civilians, and there were reports of dead and injured 😥