In Nizhny Novgorod, local residents encircled the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral with the St. George band.

According to them, this is an action in defense of traditional values and to express their support of the Russian armed forces.
Source: Kedmi
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An interesting trajectory of an Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile.

Expect blaming Russians for the strikes on the residential areas...

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"When a person does not know
to which port he is heading,
for him not a single wind will be fair, ” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca.

Apparently, this is the reason for the vague/non-specific goals of the Special Military Operation. If there are many goals of travel, then any wind will be fair. Wherever the journey ends, this will be its goal and victory. Of all the stated goals of the Operation, I like the last one, voiced by our President, the reunification of the Russian people.
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⚡ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (29 December 2022)

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

💥 In Kupyansk direction, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have been neutralised by artillery strikes near Timkovka, Kislovka, and Berestovoye (Kharkov region).

◻️ Over 20 Ukrainian personnel, 2 armoured fighting vehicles, and 3 motor vehicles have been eliminated.

💥 In Krasny Liman direction, artillery fire, Assault and Army aviation strikes launched at units from 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the AFU near Serebryanskoye forestry have resulted in the elimination of up to 70 Ukrainian personnel, 3 armoured fighting vehicles, and 5 pickups.

💥 In Donetsk direction, Russian forces continued their offensive operations that have resulted in taking new advantageous lines and positions.

◻️ The enemy has lost over 80 personnel, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, 3 armoured fighting vehicles, and 6 motor vehicles.

💥 In South Donetsk direction, artillery fire and active action of Russian forces have resulted in the neutralisation of the AFU units near Sladkoye, Vladimirovka, Pavlovka, Velikaya Novosyolka (Donetsk People's Republic).

◻️ Up to 30 Ukrainian personnel, 2 armoured fighting vehicles, and 4 pickups have been eliminated.

◻️ Moreover, 2 enemy sabotage groups have been eliminated near Vremevka (Donetsk People's Republic), and Levadnoye (Zaporozhye region).

💥 Missile Troops and Artillery have neutralised 4 AFU command posts near Kherson; Kupyansk, Novoosinovo (Kharkov region), and Gavrilovka (Dnepropetrovsk region), as well as 83 artillery units at their firing positions, manpower and military hardware at 102 areas.

◻️ 3 AFU artillery ordnance depots have been destroyed near Seversk and Artyomovsk (Donetsk People's Republic), as well as near Stepnoye (Zaporozhye region).

💥 Within the counterbattery warfare, 2 batteries of U.S.-manufactured M-777 artillery systems has been neutralised near Kruglyakovka (Kharkov region).

◻️ 1 fighting vehicle for U.S.-manufactured HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS) has been detected and destroyed near Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

◻️ 1 Msta-B howitzer has been destroyed in Seversk (Donetsk People's Republic), as well as D-20 and D-30 howitzers near Ivanovka (Donetsk People's Republic), and Orekhov (Zaporozhye region).

✈️💥 Fighter Aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces has shot down Su-25 and Su-24 airplanes of Ukrainian Air Force near Krasniy Liman and Kramatorsk.

◻️ In addition, 2 Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters have been shot down near Suvorov and Orlovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

💥 Air defence facilities have shot down 7 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Pshenichnoye, Kremennaya, Chervonaya Dibrova, and Koshelevka (Lugansk People's Republic), Kirillovka (Donetsk People's Republic), as well as near Lyubimovka (Kherson region).

◻️ Moreover, 4 rocket-propelled projectiles launched by HIMARS and Uragan MLRS have been intercepted near Popasnaya (Lugansk People's Republic), Peremozhnoye, and Tarasovka (Zaporozhye region).

📊 In total, 354 airplanes and 194 helicopters, 2,741 unmanned aerial vehicles, 399 air defence missile systems, 7,296 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 953 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,742 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 7,810 units of special military hardware have been destroyed during the special military operation.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #report
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Another batch of fifth-generation Su-57 fighters has been handed over to the Russian troops.
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New military cemetery in Kharkov. Gives an idea of the scale of losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in recent times.

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"We try, we try hard, but the damage is such that it cannot be done in an hour or two. There will be enough work here for more than one year... To restore a transformer – it takes more than a month."

That's how Ukrainian power engineers are trying to restore substations damaged by the Russian strike.

Translated from gramotyyaroslava
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Translated from Oleg Tzasrev:

The head of the Ukrainian military intelligence, Kirill Budanov, in an interview with the BBC: "We can't defeat them in all directions comprehensively. Neither can they. We're very much looking forward to new weapons supplies, and to the arrival of more advanced weapons."

An interesting statement by Kirill Budanov. It contrasts sharply with the jingoistic nonsense that other Ukrainian officials and politicians produce.

I already wrote that the ideal situation for the United States is when the military conflict continues for a long time, and that the United States will regulate the intensity of the fighting by supplying weapons. Excessive intensity carries risks that Russia will use tactical nuclear weapons. The United States will have to react to this and enter into conflict. But if the United States enters into a conflict, then there are risks of getting a strike with the strategic nuclear weapons from Russia. And if you do not enter into conflict and do not react, then there will be a guaranteed drop in the ratings of Democrats within the country and in the influence of the United States among partners. Therefore, a long conflict with low intensity is what the United States needs.

In the meantime, everything is happening just as they wanted in Washington. The conflict is becoming prolonged.

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There are very few days left until the New Year. If you still don't have a festive mood, we want to share with you the atmosphere of New Year's Tomsk — lights, garlands, a Christmas tree and carefree children. Take a break and relax at least for this minute.

Happy New Year from Siberia!

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Putin finally saw the truth before his eyes. Taking Galicia in 1939 was a mistake

“Want to lose Ukraine? Add Galicia to it. And that’s how it eventually turned out”

Zelensky signed the law "On Media", strengthening state control over the media and prohibiting positive coverage of Russia's actions.
The new law allows all types of mass media to be fined without a court decision, to ban the operation of online media for a period of 14 days, to cancel the registration of print media.
The law bans all TV channels and other media resources from Russia. In addition the law prohibits the dissemination of information about the actions of Russia, which, from the point of view of the Ukrainian authorities, is unreliable. It is also prohibited to provide positive coverage of the activities of Russian authorities in order to popularize them.

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Translated from Rybar:

“Stop throwing pearls in front of pigs” or about the overripen need to stop playing war

As part of today's press conference, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, touched on an important topic: it's time to stop behaving well with those who, in principle, do not deserve it.

This truth will be voiced to you by any soldier who is at the forefront. Their comrades-in-arms are tortured to death, their positions are hit with ammunition prohibited by all conventions, attempts at negotiations turn into blows on the sly.

The civilians, sitting in the deep rear, will try to prove that this is inhumane, that it is impossible to stoop to the level of the enemy.

Let's put it this way: now the Ukrainians have been supplied with up to 2,000 attack drones similar to Russian "Geran"/"Shaheed". Throughout December, the enemy space satellites were taking pictures of the Russian airfields and energy facilities. In the largest cities of Russia, they are preparing for a massive strike at the New Year holidays.

Question: if on New Year's Eve the strikes would be made at the peaceful and civilian facilities, how appropriate would such thoughts about "noble acts" be?

And what if terrorist attacks continue not only in the liberated territories, but also in the centers of Russian cities? If the car of some official takes off into the air next to you, hooking your loved ones?

They will do it without thinking.

The inhabitants of Kherson, Melitopol, Energodar, Donetsk, Lugansk, Stakhanov, Gorlovka have long heard all these common truths. But in our country, with broad popular support, they continue to play humanism.

Kadyrov is right when he says: we need to stop playing games. Any act of terror by Ukraine must be retaliated against.

We need to stop fidgeting. It is necessary to write in the media that "as part of the response to the criminal shelling of Donetsk, which resulted in the death of civilians, a blow was struck on the administration of a certain Vinnitsa or Ternopil."

It's just enough to save the lives of Ukrainians at the expense of the lives of our fellow citizens – we've been talking about this almost since the beginning of the special operation.

We must not stoop to their level, that is a fact. But if a rabid dog bites you, then it must be shot.

Finally stop throwing pearls in front of pigs: they will not appreciate it.
Rybar

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#TransFormatorBuzzes💤 :

War and Peace*

Despite all the similarities and common human values, there is a Russian (conservative, traditional, collective, patriotic) and there is also a Western (libertarian, individualistic, cosmopolitan) paradigm (pattern, way of thinking) of what is good and what is bad in politics and generally – live. Certainly, those are stereotypes here, but they are supported by the common perception.

In the present situation it is not possible to achieve compromise or balance in those two ways of seeing the world. All attempts of diplomacy come to just repeating "words, words, words..." and people do not believe them anymore.
Also Kipling's great "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," comes to mind. Certainly, it would be easy to critisise what I am writing now, as it is certainly very simplistic and self-contradictory in a way. However, the reality on the ground proves me right.
Have you ever seen someone changing his views as a result of an argument? Well, maybe. Very rare. Even then, was it an argument and discussion that have convinced the opponent? **
For the majority of the people the change of beliefs is possible only by breaking the template completely. And the best way of doing this is hitting where it really hurts. That's a military defeat, economic collapse – change of all habits and way of life. That is what a War is about.

In the Dark Ages there was a tradition – to solve difficult court cases by a combat of two fighters, appointed by the sides. The fighters could have been hired hands or mercenaries. The side that wins was supposed to be right, because the God was helping them. Well, that is a religious approach, which may be obsolete.
But it also coinsides with a materialistic and scientific way. Practice is an ultimate criterion of truth. If one type of society becomes stronger than another type of society, then it is right.
To show that is the purpose of the war.
That was impossible for some very short historical period when it was believed that the war with the Soviet Union or Russia would escalate to a nuclear Armageddon. However, the proxy war between Russia and Ukraine can answer the question, but not to end in the terminal annihilation. The question is, certainly, what type of society is the most robust, stable and effective.
So, following the Dark Age tradition, Ukraine is a partially hired, partially lured by the false promises combatant, fighting on the side of a collective West, rich but old and weak contestant, while Russia can not afford to hire anyone, so has to fight for herself.

I would never believe if someone would have said that I could be explaining the necessity of a war. However, that is a fact of reality. And it is another "brocken template", as every Russian (especially of my generation) was tought from the childhood that the war is the worst of what may happen, and I still believe that it is true. However, as Otto von Bismarck has said,
"The great questions of the era are solved not by speeches or rulings of the majority but by iron and blood".

This year was called in Russia "the year of the lost illusions". They were not just lost, but crushed by the reality of war and peace. However, not for everyone. Many people are still trying to live their usual lives as if nothing has changed.
What actually has changed – that is over hundred sousands of dead Ukrainian soldiers, that would make millions of people to physically hate Russia and everything Russian. Having such a neighbour Russia would be able to survive only if it would change, learn the lessons and improve in the every possible way. That is an existential challenge.
That had happened in the past, when Russia was rising from the chaos, blood and devastation cleansed and strong. That will happen again.

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