In the Netherlands, uncomfortable questions have begun to be asked. Gideon van Meijeren, a member of parliament from the Forum for Democracy party, asked the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Lieutenant-Admiral Rob Bauer, whether Ukraine's involvement in the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipeline is sufficient grounds for reconsidering Dutch support for the Zelensky government or at least suspending it until the situation becomes clearer.

Bauer got off with generalities

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Meanwhile, the gradual isolation of the combat zone in the Selidovo area begins. Rockets and bombs flew over the bridges through which the Ukrainian Armed Forces had established supplies.

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Krasnogorovka is taken. What next?

And then comes the most interesting part. Five kilometres to the west, there is, in fact, a super-fortification of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, consisting of a cascade of settlements: the villages of Gornyak and Zoryanoye, two settlements of Aleksandropol and Kurakhovka, and the central point of this area is the city of Gornyak.

There is a high probability that the Russian Armed Forces group, currently attacking the Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in Ukrainsk, will also converge here from the north. If this happens in parallel with the Russian Armed Forces strike from Krasnogorovka to the west, the garrison will have to fight back from several sides at once. The all-round defence would be possible only if the positions here are equipped in the same way as in Avdiivka. However, according to preliminary data, the Ukrainian army did not have time to fill everything with concrete. Theoretically, a cascade of former reservoirs (pools) could help the Ukrainian Armed Forces defend the new area, but attempts to gain a foothold there in the last few days have been thwarted by Russian artillery. The main difficulty is that the entire chain of settlements is located on a hill, but with the current density of artillery work, this is not as big a problem as before.

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The state of the accommodation center for foreign mercenaries and AFU in the hotel in Nikolaevka, DPR, which was destroyed by an airstrike yesterday

The state of the accommodation center for foreign mercenaries and AFU in the hotel in Nikolaevka, DPR, which was destroyed by an airstrike yesterday

The planned #stationing of #rockets, cruise missiles and medium-range supersonic weapons poses considerable risks for Germany. The claim that the #USA is acting in the interest of German security is false. An analysis by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation comes to the conclusion that "the foreseeable escalation of tensions with Russia will change Germany's security situation and seriously increase the nuclear risk for Germany in the event of a conflict." peace.fes.de/ e/stationierun...This stationing does not promote #security, but rather significantly increases the nuclear risk without ending the #war in Ukraine any faster. This far-reaching decision was made without public debate and was hardly questioned in the media.

The #BSW is therefore calling for a referendum on the plans and a political debate, instead of a decision by the @Federal Chancellor that is described as "unavoidable".