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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Situation in the #Zaporozhye Direction until 19:00 on 5 May 2023⚡️

The AFU continued to reinforce its troop grouping following combat reconnaissance in the #Pologi district. The defence units have suspended leave and medical facilities have imposed restrictions on treatment.

🔹 Additional Units of the 4th Battalion of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade have been deployed under #Shcherbaki to the west of #Orekhov. A brigade artillery group and an anti-tank division of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade have been deployed to #Grigorovka.

▪️ North of #Zaporozhye, the Bayraktar UAV operates from the #Dolgintsevo Airfield. According to some reports, the AFU still use the Iranian-made Kaman-22 drone, purchased by #Taiwan through a shell company, for reconnaissance.

▪️ Judging by the interception of conversations of the members of 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade, one of the strikes by the RF Armed Forces hit a personnel station in #Stepnogorsk, as well as the territory of the 1st Regiment for Protection of Particularly Important Objects in #Dnepropetrovsk.

▪️ Additional S-300 air defence systems were deployed to #Zaporozhye to protect against missile attacks.

🔹 Squads of Georgian Mercenaries arrived in #Myrnoye and #Zaporozhye region in the #Gulyaypole section. There they operate jointly with units of the 108th and 110th Territorial Defence Brigades.

▪️ In #Voskresensk and #Kalinovskoye reconnaissance groups of the Ukrainian Special Forces of Operation are deployed. And according to some reports, in #Pokrovskoye, paratroopers of the newly created 82nd Separate Air Assault Brigade from #Chernovtsev have begun to arrive.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦🚀 On Deliveries of ATACMS Systems to Kiev⚡️

🗓 In October, the #Pentagon plans to transfer up to 30 MGM-140 ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) missiles, tactical ballistic missiles manufactured by the US defence company Lockheed Martin, which also produces the M142 HIMARS MLRS. It is not so much the fact of the planned transfer that is important, it is a matter of time. What is important is that the BBC was the first to publish information about it, and it was after the AFU had struck the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in #Sevastopol. As if this is aimed specifically at us.

❗️ATACMS Systems have a range of up to 190 miles (300 kilometres). Information about the US readiness to supply this type of missiles to #Ukraine appeared in the network at the same time as the data on the planned transfer of the first batch of 45 Taurus missiles by #Germany to Kiev in October. The second batch of 50 Taurus missiles will be delivered to the AFU by 10 November. Apparently, the #Pentagon hurriedly made a decision to send a limited batch of ATACMS to #Ukraine in contrast to the announced intentions of the German side. The same applies to the issue of delivery of American Abrams tanks, which according to the official statements of the #US side are already parked in the #Polish city of Rzeszów, and the railway train is expected to be dispatched this night.

📌 It is believed that Joe Biden's administration is currently discussing the reduction of arms deliveries to Kiev due to the expected aggravation of the situation in the #Taiwan area. The political establishment in Washington is already openly talking about the possibility of an armed conflict against #China in the South China Sea. The #US might have delayed deliveries, but, apparently, it cannot cede the palm of superiority to #Berlin.

📜 MultiXAM; 23 Sep 2023,19:30

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🇨🇳🇹🇼 Beijing wields warplanes, trade and travel to pressure Taiwan’s next president

As Lai Ching-te prepares to take office as Taiwan’s next president, Beijing appears to be using a dual strategy of military plane fly-bys and relaxed travel and food import restrictions to ramp up pressure on the island’s next leader, according to observers.

Last weekend, 12 People’s Liberation Army aircraft crossed the unofficial median line of the Taiwan Strait, with an unspecified number flying as close as 68.5km from the northern Taiwanese city of Keelung. It marked the closest-ever fly-by the island’s military has disclosed to the public.

At the same time, Beijing’s vice-minister of culture and tourism Rao Quan announced that residents of Fujian province would be the first to resume visits to Matsu, a Taiwanese defense outpost near the mainland coast.

Additionally, a senior mainland customs official said that imports of Taiwanese pomelos and two types of seafood would resume. These imports had been banned in August 2022 in retaliation for a visit to Taiwan by then US House speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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🇨🇳🇹🇼 China stages mock missile strikes on Taiwan

China conducted mock missile strikes and dispatched bombers carrying live missiles on Friday in its two-day Taiwan drills in exercises Beijing has said were launched to punish Taiwan's new president, Lai Ching-te.

The bombers set up several attack formations in waters east of Taiwan, carrying out mock attacks in co-ordination with naval vessels as China tested its ability to "seize power" and control key areas of Taiwan.

A senior Taiwan security official said that several Chinese bombers conducted mock attacks on foreign vessels near the eastern end of the Bashi Channel, which separates Taiwan from the Philippines, practicing how to seize "total control" of areas west of the first island chain.

The Chinese theatre command showed an animated video of missiles being launched at Taiwan from the ground, air and sea, which then slam into the cities of Taipei, Kaohsiung and Hualien in balls of flame.

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