⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Special Operation, 2 Feb 2024, Main; pub. 20:29⚡️

▪️ Putin met with participants of the "Everything for Victory" forum in #Tula and revealed the secret of success: react quickly to what happens, find a way to suppress the means of recon and defeat the enemy;

▪️ Victory at the front can't be achieved without versatile support, the Russian defence industry demonstrates very good pace and quality of work, it has orders "to the eyeballs," Putin said;

▪️ The owners of neo-Nazis in #Ukraine are pushing them to continue the conflict and use them as a tool in the fight against #Russia, the AFU have long turned into a terrorist organization, Putin said;

▪️ In the morning, Putin spoke with the General Staff, where he was informed that there was a difficult situation related to drones at one of the sites;

▪️ If Russia does not protect its people in #Crimea, #Novorossiya and #Donbass, it will turn into a decrepit country that no one needs, Putin said;

▪️ The state defence order in 2024 was again significantly increased and fully funded, there is no doubt that it will be fulfilled, Putin said;

▪️ According to Putin, since the beginning of its supply of automotive equipment to the troops has increased 7 times, tanks 5 times, and APCs more than 3.5 times. The supply of drones of various types and artillery ammo has increased significantly;

▪️ Putin noted that the sincere support of people strengthens fighters on the frontline, volunteers managed to raise 11 bn rubles for the needs of the army;

▪️ Shoygu held a meeting with the RFAF and stated that after the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, Russian troops maintain a strategic initiative along the entire line of contact, move forward, expand control zones, improve their position along the frontline;

▪️ The RFAF groupings methodically reduce the combat potential of the enemy, in a month Kiev lost more than 23,000 militants and more than 3,000 units of various weapons, including German Leopard tanks, US Bradley IFVs, Patriot and HIMARS launchers, Shoygu said;

▪️ In Jan, the RFAF inflicted 127 strikes with precision weapons on the military infrastructure and facilities of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine, Shoygu said;

▪️ Trying to prevent the collapse of the defence, Kiev throws the remaining reserves into battle and hastily conducts regular forced mobilisations, conducts terrorist attacks against peaceful Russians, does not disdain to destroy its citizens, Shoygu said;

▪️ The issue of the participation of soldiers in the presidential elections of the RF is being worked out, special attention is being paid to how they will vote in the SMO zone, Shoygu said;

▪️ The RFAF repelled 10 attacks during the day, and also improved the position along the front edge in the #Krasnyliman direction and occupied more advantageous lines and positions in #Donetsk, MoD said;

▪️ In a day, Kiev lost up to 795 militants, 2 tanks, 9 AFVs, 5 Gvozdika SAUs, 3 D-30 guns, and US-made equipment: M119 guns, M113 APC and M777 howitzer, 4 field ammo depots were destroyed, air defence shot down 2 MLRS "Alder" shells and 40 UAVs, MoD said;

▪️ A representative of the emergency services told RIA Novosti that all the wreckage of the Il-76 plane shot down by an AFU missile with prisoners was taken from the crash site in the #Belgorod region and delivered to a special polygon.

▪️ Kiev fired at #Donetsk and #Gorlovka with 20 shells of various calibers, launched kamikaze drones and dropped ammo from drones, the JCCC said;

▪️ Orban said that there was a threat that the money owed to #Hungary would be sent to #Ukraine, but now he has received guarantees that this will not happen.

▪️ Podolyak admitted that "tactical mistakes" were made during the counteroffensive last year and he has a "certain negative aftertaste";

▪️ He noted a "certain shortage of weapons", primarily shells, and that the AFU will be able to "realise strategic goals", if they "stop being only on the defensive".

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