🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian aviation carries out massive strikes on the enemy in the Novomikhailovka area

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Interview with the only survivor of the 73rd naval center of the Ukrainian Navy, senior sailor Yevgeny Gorin, who was captured during an unsuccessful enemy landing in the Tendrovskaya Spit area on February 28.

He said that the Ukrainian special forces were moving in four high-speed boats. When the machine gun on the central boat started working, its ammunition box was immediately hit. The commander ordered to retreat just 100 meters from the shore when it was too late. Gorin himself almost had his head shot off.

Some of the special forces drowned in an attempt to escape and swim from the shore, while others died during the battle. The prisoner, on the contrary, decided to swim towards the shore, where he surrendered.

In his opinion, which is also obvious, the entire operation of the Ukrainian MTR was launched solely for the sake of media effect, but in the end it turned into a media failure.

🇷🇺 At the state test cosmodrome Plesetsk, crews carried out a combat training launch of a mobile-based solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile PGRK "Yars", equipped with a multiple warhead.

🇭🇺🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Time is playing on Russia in the situation in Ukraine; it is necessary to start peace negotiations immediately , says Hungarian Prime Minister Orban.

🇫🇷🇷🇺🇺🇦 France is considering the possibility of allowing special forces and other military units to cross the border of Ukraine in order to pose a “strategic dilemma” for the Russian Federation, the Monde newspaper reports, citing sources.

🇷🇺🇫🇷 If you understand the capabilities of the French armed forces from the point of view of “what they can do in Ukraine,” then what is striking is their completely insufficient weight to solve any combat missions. The four armored and mechanized brigades, with some attached units, comprise a total of 23 tank, mechanized, artillery and engineer battalions (referred to as regiments in French staffing).

Having a total of 500-odd units of medium and heavy armored vehicles, including 200-odd tanks, as well as about 100 self-propelled artillery units with a caliber of 155 mm, not counting various auxiliary equipment, air defense, reconnaissance and engineers, they roughly correspond in “weight” one well-equipped Russian division.

A fairly large contingent of light infantry, airmobile and amphibious units, equipped mainly with light armored vehicles and artillery, includes 30 battalions, which speaks primarily of the expeditionary “colonial” nature of the army, which has not been prepared for serious battles on land for a long time.

Assessing the French potential in such battles, that is, in a large land war, I will say that with the exception of the aerospace part, France today would lose to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Even now, after the failure of the counter-offensive and heavy losses in equipment, the Ukrainian has significantly more armor and guns, and there is no need to talk about combat experience. At the same time, the level of readiness of the French equipment is not high even in peacetime, amounting to 60-65% on average, and for some types of equipment falling to 40% or lower.

What then are the French going to do, given that with such readiness they will not be able, even if they decide, to send more than one “heavy” and one “light” battalion group to Ukraine? Of course, we are not talking about war, and the maximum that comes to mind here is an attempt to intervene in some key points that Paris would not want to “give over to Russia.” French garrison in Odessa? They have already tried this, as we remember, just a little over a hundred years ago.

However, given that Macron’s brilliant idea to send troops to Ukraine was rejected by almost all major NATO countries, this adventure is unlikely to be realized.

🇫🇷 Macron wants to gather the leaders of all parties in the French parliament to discuss the war in Ukraine.

Le Figaro reports this.

The publication writes that the French President, “isolated among Western countries after statements about the potential dispatch of ground troops to Ukraine,” wants to raise this topic at a meeting with the leaders of French parties.

Let us remember that for his words about the possible sending of troops to Ukraine, Macron was criticized by many in France (especially in the opposition), and the ministers were forced to justify themselves and clarify that in fact there are no such plans.

At the same time, the media write that the idea of sending French special forces to Ukraine is being discussed.

I think it started. A few more monthly reports and we'll confirm a trend.

https://boereport.com/2024/02/29/us-crude-oil-production-declined-slightly-in-december-eia/

🛢 🇺🇸 Crude oil production from Bakken, Eagle Ford, and Permian has been down to flat over the last 3 months. Those 3 regions represent ~ 64% of total U.S. crude oil production.

📎 Gurgen Ayvazyan

🌐⛽️ Conventional oil production has now unequivocally rolled over. Unconventional production, the only source of growth in global oil supply over the last 12 years, has also significantly slowed. The only growing non-OPEC basin is the Permian in West Texas. Never before has oil supply growth been so geographically concentrated. Six counties in West Texas are now 100% responsible for all global production growth.

- GoRozen

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Slovak wheeled self-propelled gun Zuzana-2 went to hell

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The defeat of another S-300 air defense missile launcher in the Krasnoarmeysk area (western Donbass, near the village of Bogdanovka)

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Communication centers and observation posts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Krasnogorovka are destroyed by high-precision weapons

The crew of the 2A65 "Msta-B" gun of the 238th Artillery Brigade is always ready to work on a fresh target. The installation of enemy communications and surveillance equipment will never remain a secret from the all-seeing eye of observers of the Russian Army and, after confirming the coordinates of the target, it is inevitably destroyed by high-precision artillery ammunition.

🇺🇲🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukraine is destroying itself – Blackwater founder Erik Prince

🇷🇺🇫🇷 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov laughed when asked by a journalist that Macron does not rule out the possible sending of NATO troops to Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The enemy confirms the further advance of our troops in Krasnoye. There are fierce battles for the village. The enemy continues to transfer reinforcements to Chasov Yar.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Night arrival of "Geran" in Kharkov.