🇷🇺 Today will be a day of good news for the Russian army.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 I listened to the statement of the clown about Soledar. Judging by the terms used, the decision to surrender was most likely made and the process of "damage control" has already been launched in order to belittle the significance of Soledar and minimize the consequences for the morale of society and the troops from the loss of an important settlement.

🇺🇦 Zelensky, in his evening address, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Soledar "gained time", and the Russian army focused its priority attention and a significant grouping of troops on this city.

Kiev authorities begin to create the ground for a "noble retreat"

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Messages come from Soledar about the occupation by musicians of the sanatorium "Salt Symphony" and the 14th school.

The 46th separate air assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which arrived a couple of days ago to help, is practically bled.

🔗 Belarus vpo

🇺🇦⚡ Ukrainian insider channel on telegram:

Our source in the OP said that Zaluzhny reported on the critical situation in Soledar and insisted on the withdrawal of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the city so that they would not be surrounded.

🇷🇺⚡Alexander Lapin has been appointed chief of the Ground Forces of the RF Armed Forces — Readovka source

The source clarified that the colonel-general has been fulfilling his duties for at least a month and a half.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Footage from Soledar, where fierce fighting continued all night.

Sources report an extremely difficult situation in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this sector of the front. Huge losses of personnel, problems with logistics, low moral and psychological state of military personnel.

All this indicates a high probability of the speedy liberation of the city from Ukrainian militants.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 This is how Bakhmut looks now

🇷🇺🇺🇦 A Russian drone filmed a precise hit on the location of Ukrainian militants near Kupyansk. The video clearly shows the unusual trajectory of the projectile.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Artillerymen of the 5th brigade clear Maryinka from strongholds of Ukrainian terrorists

Artillery does the work of supporting the assault groups that are moving deeper into the city.

🇯🇵 The Japanese Murasame-class guided missile destroyer Inazuma crashed into an underwater rock off the coast of Japan. The ship received significant damage to the underwater part of the hull and lost speed. There is a fuel spill. No deaths were reported.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The western part of Soledar and the last road on which you can still leave the city.

🇷🇺 In 2023, the Russian Armed Forces will receive new military equipment:

- 22 launchers with intercontinental ballistic missiles "Yars", "Avangard" and "Sarmat";

- 3 strategic missile carriers Tu-160;

- nuclear submarine of the project "Borey-A" "Emperor Alexander III";

- the army will also receive 4 submarines and 12 surface ships.

It is planned to increase the supply of high-precision hypersonic missile systems "Dagger" and "Zirkon" and continue work on other promising models.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Artemovsk is close to liberation, the fighting has shifted to the western part of the city - Acting head of the DPR Pushilin

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Judging by the statements of the wife of a certain Yura, who died in the Donbass, only one of the morgues near the front line in the Artyomovsk direction received 110 killed UAF soldiers during New Year's Eve, and while the relatives were in the morgue, another truck with the dead arrived there. This is about the price of the "Artyomovsk meat grinder" for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“Germany's industrial production in the energy intensive chemical and pharmaceutical sectors fell over -15% in 2022 data to November. This is the counterpart to high storage levels of natural gas. Whole swaths of German manufacturing have been shut down and likely won't reopen...”

- Robin Brooks

🇬🇧 According to the Financial Times, ongoing political chaos and the results of sanctions are furthering the trend of deindustrialization in the UK. High energy costs are now a major factor in making British manufacturing non-competitive.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The situation in the Soledar direction according to the Ukrainian side.