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🇹🇷🇮🇷 Araghchi in Turkey:
- Our past experience consistently shows that the United States has never acted in good faith and honestly;
- Nevertheless, Iran is still ready for negotiations;
- The United States has repeatedly asked us for negotiations through various intermediaries, and such requests continue to come in;
- To start negotiations, it is necessary to stop the threats.
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Brief Frontline Report – January 30th, 2026
Summary by Marat Khairullin and Mikhail Popov
Message from the Russian Ministry of Defense: "As a result of decisive actions by units of the 'South' Group, the settlement of Berestok in the Donetsk People's Republic has been liberated within the previous 24 hours." (Media 1, 2, 3)
Russian Armed Forces are storming the city of Konstantinovka from three directions. One of these directions (southwestern) is along the H-20 highway. On January 30, Russian assault groups, advancing in this sector towards the city, captured the settlement of Berestok. Until 1999, the settlement was part of the city of Konstantinovka. Russian assault troops have now reached the southwestern outskirts of Konstantinovka proper.
Message from the Russian Ministry of Defense: "Servicemen of the 36th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 29th Guards Combined Arms Army of the 'East' Group have liberated the settlement of Terenovatoe in Zaporozhye Oblast. As a result of active combat operations, the Transbaikal warriors have taken control of an important enemy defense area on the western bank of the Gaichur River, with a depth of up to 5 km and an area of over 20 sq. km. More than 580 buildings have been cleared." (Media 4, 5, 6)
The enemy concentrated its efforts on the left flank of the Russian offensive sector on the Pokrovskoe - Gulyaipole front with the aim of retaking control of the city of Gulyaipole. The command of the "East" Group encouraged the enemy to become bogged down with counterattacks and draw its units out from cover into the open field, stifling their maneuver along the line of contact. While the units of the Russian group are destroying the enemy in defensive battles on the left flank, the settlement of Terenovatoe has been brought under control on the right flank.
Russian Armed Forces have broken through the line of defensive fortifications of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the interfluve of the Gaichur and Verkhnyaya Tersa rivers and have reached the watershed ridge. The settlement of Terenovatoe is a major transport hub supporting the Gaichur defense line. Three other nodal areas of this defense line—Rizdvyanka, Verkhnyaya Tersa, Zaliznichnoe—support the enemy's defensive positions in this sector. After securing these areas, the enemy's defense line will be destroyed, forcing them to fall back to the Verkhnyaya Tersa River on the line of Novonikolaevka–Lyubitskoe–Omelnik. The Russian group will reach the eastern face of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Orekhov defensive hub.
Furthermore, the bridgehead in the Terenovatoe area will allow the Russian Armed Forces group to develop an offensive to the northwest (Khristoforovka–Zelenoe) towards the H-15 highway, splitting the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk groupings.
Message from the Russian Ministry of Defense: "As a result of coordinated actions by units of the 'Dnepr' Group, the settlement of Rechnoe in Zaporozhye Oblast has been brought under control during the previous 24 hours." (Media 7, 8, 9)
Events are developing on the left flank of the Zaporozhye direction in the Stepnogorsk area. Having strengthened the right flank of this area along the line of Novoyakovlevka–Pavlovka, the command of the "Dnepr" Group planned and executed an offensive with the left flank into the area of the Konka River estuary. The settlement of Rechnoe has been brought under control. Nearby, on the river, several dams for fish farming have been constructed. The settlement is adjacent to large areas of agricultural plots. The M-18 highway with crossings over the river runs nearby. The settlement of Veselyanka is located 2 kilometers to the east, and the settlement of Primorskoe is downstream on the river. A bridgehead on the line Primorskoe - Rechnoe - Veselyanka will reliably cover the flank of Russian Armed Forces units advancing on the settlement of Yurkovka and forming a deep envelopment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Orekhov defensive hub.
Read this report and many others on Marat Khairullin's Substack!
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❗️Putin is holding a meeting of the commission on military-technical cooperation.
🔼Russia supplied military equipment to three dozen countries in 2025, with revenue amounting to $15 billion, the Russian president announced.
✔️Russia values its strong and friendly relations with African countries, the Russian leader said.
Countries in the region are expressing interest in increasing purchases of both Russian weapons and services for the weapons they have already acquired, Putin added.
🔼The volumes of Russian military exports are expected to increase significantly in 2026, Putin said.
🔼Russia is implementing more than 340 projects in the field of military-technological cooperation with 14 countries.
Source: Взгляд
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The UN is under the threat of an "imminent financial collapse" due to unpaid contributions and a rule forcing it to return unspent funds, Guterres told the organization's member countries.
The money could run out by July 2026, Reuters reports, citing a letter from the Secretary-General.
Source: TASS
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I guess it's time to reduce UN to necessary structures only (like UN SC) and move the HQ outside of the US and the West in general.
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❗️Vladimir Putin received the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, Ali Larijani, who arrived in Moscow, announced the President's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov.
Larijani's visit to Russia was not announced.
Source: Zvezda
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❕The EU intends to abandon the price cap on Russian oil, replacing it in the 20th package of sanctions with a complete ban on providing oil shipping services to Russia, Bloomberg reports.
In addition, the 20th package will include new restrictions against Russian banks and oil companies, as well as restrictions against financial structures and industrial companies in third countries.
Source: TASS
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Guys are crazy. But, ok. Let's just watch that, it'll be fun.
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Geranium Chronicles:
Today's strike on Sinelnikovo in the Dnepropetrovsk Oblast.
The geolocation of this strike by Gerani on the target at the Sinelnikovo station: 48.323631, 35.531238.
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ОБОРОНКА writes,
The shrieks and whines of "everything is lost" have finally subsided, and after the "victory", the traditional "betrayal" followed. Dmitry Peskov voiced it:
"Russia agreed to refrain from strikes on Ukraine until February 1 at Trump's request."
Today, let's remind you, it's January 30th. Initially, it was about a week-long "energy truce". For those with an IQ slightly above 78, the cycles of limited missile and drone strikes by the Russian Armed Forces should not be a secret. For our less informed friends, we provide links: January 27th, January 20th, January 13th and so on. If after this you think you need the skills of Perry Mason to unravel this case, then no amount of medicine will help, not even punitive ones.
There's only one question left: why stir up the public in pursuit of hype? And when will they finally be held accountable for this? The worst punishment for such individuals is unsubscriptions from their resources - and here everything depends on the public itself. However, the Kremlin could also actively explain its position and do it earlier than the US and Ukraine, whose news dominate the agenda.
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A reminder from last year about "ban on energy strikes".
I'm sure something like this will happen again. Moreover, here Vladimir Trukhan and Oleg Shalandin explain, how strikes are planned.
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❗️Medvedev criticized the UN Secretary-General's position on Crimea, according to which the republic does not have the right to self-govern like Greenland
"Who gave the Secretary-General and the Office of Legal Affairs the right to interpret the UN Charter? Only the International Court of Justice is specifically granted this right under Article 96 of the Charter itself - and that is at the request of the UN General Assembly or the Security Council," - said the deputy head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
Also, the former president of Russia emphasized that the right to limited interpretation is also granted to the UN member states themselves, as well as the General Assembly and the Security Council, but on issues related to their competence.
Source: СМОТРИ
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The number of unemployed in Germany has risen to its highest level in 12 years, says a statement from the Federal Employment Agency of Germany, published on the agency's website.
In recent years, Germany has been experiencing a prolonged economic crisis. Initially, it was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, then it intensified after the cessation of Russian gas supplies.
Source: TASS
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Who would have thought, right? 😏
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Muslim Magomaev. "Pesnya o Rodine". Song about Motherland.
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"I will be very smart" - said Kallas 😂 😂 😂.
Good joke.
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❗️Mercenaries from the Baltics, who fought on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, can be convicted of mercenarism - Rodion Miroshnik
"If they fall into the hands of our armed forces, they may end up in the dock. But as for those who sponsor them, we will deal with them after the end of hostilities. This is a separate political process," - said the Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Source: СМОТРИ
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Широка страна моя родная,
There is my wide native country.
Много в ней лесов, полей и рек!
There are many forests, fields and rivers.
Я другой такой страны не знаю,
I don't know such another country.
Где так вольно дышит человек.
Where people can breathe so freely.
От Москвы до самых до окраин,
From Moscow to far distant edges
С южных гор до северных морей
From the south mountain to the north seas
Человек проходит, как хозяин
Human comes like a master
Необъятной Родины своей.
Of our vast motherland.
Всюду жизнь и вольно и широко,
There is free and wide life
Точно Волга полная, течет.
As if it was exactly streaming wide Volga river.
Молодым — везде у нас дорога,
Young people have road everywhere.
Старикам — везде у нас почет.
Elderly people have honor everywhere.
Наши нивы глазом не обшаришь,
You won't stare at our vast wheat fields.
Не упомнишь наших городов,
You won't remember of our cities.
Наше слово гордое «товарищ»
Our pride word "Comrade"
Нам дороже всех красивых слов.
is more expansive for us than all beautiful words.
С этим словом мы повсюду дома,
With this word we are at home everywhere.
Нет для нас ни черных, ни цветных,
There are no black and color people for us.
Это слово каждому знакомо,
This word is familiar to everyone.
С ним везде находим мы родных.
With it we find natives.
Над страной весенний ветер веет,
Spring wing blows slightly over the country.
С каждым днем все радостнее жить.
Each day let us live with much joy.
И никто на свете не умеет
And nobody in the world is uncappable
Лучше нас смеяться и любить.
To smile and love better than we do.
Но сурово брови мы насупим,
We will frow our brows severely.
Если враг захочет нас сломать, —
If enemy wants to break (give up) us.
Как невесту. Родину мы любим,
We love the Motherland like bride.
Бережем, как ласковую мать.
We save it like affectionate mother.
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From the channel for the 105th regiment of the NM DPR:
🇺🇦🥶Ukraine faces an apocalypse: a short "energy truce" coincides with days of warming, and then the country will be hit by freezing temperatures
-The few days without attacks, to which Russia agreed, coincide with the last days of a brief warming in Ukraine.
-And from February 1, when it is announced, Ukraine will again be hit by freezing temperatures of up to -22-24.
-"And now with a cool head: we have 2 days to prepare for new bombings amid severe frosts", - write Ukrainian analysts.
-"Even before the "truce", Russia was actively conducting reconnaissance of Kyiv and western Ukraine, redeploying and equipping its aviation with missiles, accumulating UAVs. They are ready to attack, so they can strike whenever they want", - they add with concern.
-"Given that severe frosts will hit Ukraine after February 1, the consequences could be serious.
-Charge your power banks, prepare food and water reserves", - they urge Ukrainians.
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❗️A huge scandal is brewing in the USA after the publication of a new part of the Epstein files
The US Department of Justice deleted the document "EFTA01660683", which included all the disgusting and shocking "testimonies of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein's victims".
This document was publicly available for about an hour and a half, and screenshots managed to spread on social media.
Below are the most striking episodes from the deleted document:
✔️ A 13-year-old girl and a friend of the victim allegedly bit Trump on his genitals
✔️ The survivor described how she became a victim and witness of a "sex trafficking network"on Trump's golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. According to her, victims of sexual and physical violence were buried right next to the golf course, and Trump's security chief threatened the survivor, saying that she would "end up as fertilizer for the last nine holes, like other whores" if she ever talked about what she saw or what happened to her.
✔️ Almost 40 years ago, a girl allegedly drank something and woke up in a hotel room with Trump (the hotel also belonged to Trump).
Below is the text of one of the files, in which, however, it is alarming that an elderly partygoer is named Elon Musk, who at the time in question was between 28 and 34 years old:
President Donald Trump hosted parties at Mar-a-Lago, which he called "calendar girls".
Jeffrey Epstein brought children, and Trump auctioned them off.
He measured the vulva and vagina of children, inserting his finger, and evaluated them by their degree of elasticity.
The guests were elderly men, including Elon Musk, Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric Trump. Lawyers Allan Dershowitz and Bob Shapiro were also present.
We were taken into rooms, forced to perform oral sex on Donald Trump. We were forced to let them penetrate us. I was 13 years old when Donald Trump raped me.
The complainant, following a call to a New York police officer regarding her previous report, stated that she was forced to engage in sexual acts when she was 13 years old and pregnant in 1984.
The complainant also stated that high-ranking individuals were involved in her sexual exploitation and the murder and disposal of her newborn daughter.
The complainant stated that Donald Trump regularly participated in paying money to force her to engage in sexual acts with him, and claimed that Trump was present when her uncle killed her newborn child.
The West's pressure on Russia's military-technical cooperation partners has been increasing, but export contracts have been consistently fulfilled. The amount of foreign exchange revenue exceeded $15 billion, Putin stated.
He also spoke about the development of 340 military-technical cooperation projects with foreign countries.
Source: TASS
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Four American cargo ships are transporting six E/A-18G Growler aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean towards Europe and the Middle East.
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Trump about to bite off more than he can chew?
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Позывной "Кацман" on so-called "energy ceasefire":
"Russia agreed to refrain from strikes on Ukraine until February 1st at Trump's request." (c) Emperor's Moustache
The EU will include restrictions against banks and industrial companies in third countries in the 20th package of sanctions against Russia, reports Bloomberg.
Source: TASS
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Happy for the EU. They want to double down on deindustrialization, obviously..
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The parable about what happens to a successful knight who killed a dragon, due to the modern pace of events, is realized even without a successful knight and without a defeated dragon.
There were no analogies to crypto scams from the Emperor, rollbacks to a ballroom in gilded gold and with gypsies, mass opium among the population, and so on, for a whole range of reasons - let's say, what analogies can be drawn, given the modern working conditions at the same Amazon, to the rumor about "everyone works for a bowl of rice"? All of them are not good.
And the mistake with the eunuch. The Chinese eunuch with a fleet opened up a lot of things at sea, but Bessant... he's just a silly man without a penis, not much of a eunuch, to be honest.
Source: Китайский свяZной
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АДЕКВАТ Z writes,
· "Neighbor, my pipes are burning, my head's splitting. Give me a tenner to get fixed up. I'll pay you back from my advance, I swear on my life!"
· "Here's a ruble twenty. Don't deny yourself a thing."
After the whole "energy ceasefire" saga, which had the entire military blogosphere convulsing for two days, Peskov's statement ultimately boiled down precisely to this crude little scene. Its emphases leave no room for convulsions for anyone with even a shred of sense: By the personal petition of Agent Donald, the khokhols received—with Jesuitical precision, not during the deepest frost but on its very eve—a gift of two or three days without strikes on their energy sector, and only on their energy sector. This handout, however, came wrapped in a pointed caveat: it's to create favorable conditions for negotiations.
And today, that lowlife [Zelensky] made a point of pointedly ignoring this very caveat. That he won't give up Donbas without a fight, that the ZNPP, as one must apparently understand, he intends to take by force, and for good measure—that there may be no negotiations on February 1st at all, because the white gentleman might get distracted by Iran.
And this cocaine courage is the most reliable indication that the next strike will not be long in coming. Either following Sunday's talks, or even in place of them, if the khokhols actually back out.
It's hard to put into words the hysterical delight with which the entire hamlet greeted yesterday's spin that their energy sector was now supposedly untouchable—you had to see it. And this, better than anything else, shows just how effective all our strikes since November have been, and how unthinkable it is to voluntarily abandon this tool in the future, unless the khokhols are willing to assume a posture of total submission—which they still, demonstratively, are not.
We are calmly observing the events, in full and clear understanding that the Supreme Commander-in-Chief does not and will not permit any strategic or tactical retreats from the country's interests.
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❌ The Kremlin disagrees with the UN's conclusions on the self-determination of Crimea — Peskov
"We have our own, well-known to everyone, reasoned position," — noted the presidential press secretary.
❗️The Kremlin has seen Zelensky's statements that the Ukrainian side is not ready for a compromise on Donbass and ZNPP
"ZNPP has been under the control of the Russian Federation for more than two years. The question is whether this means that the Kiev regime is going to try to recapture this nuclear power plant by force. Is it going to attack the nuclear power plant?" — said the presidential press secretary.
Also, Peskov, commenting on the situation in Donbass, noted that the dynamics on the frontline speak for themselves.
❌ Putin did not invite Zelensky anywhere, the meeting will be initiated by Zelensky
"To this, Putin replied, 'We are ready, but only in Moscow. It's very important to remember this,'" — stated the president's press secretary.
❗️The Kremlin confirmed Trump's request to Putin regarding an energy truce — Peskov
"An energy truce is in effect until February 1st, the aim of which is to create favorable conditions for negotiations," — stated the presidential press secretary.
Source: СМОТРИ
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I usually abstain from comments, but these 2 days of energy truce will not help Ukraine, once again, it might become a proof of it's inability to negotiate.
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Карго анекдоты категории Б 🌴:
Dmitry Peskov was asked:
- Dmitry Sergeyevich, there have been publications alleging that an order was given to all households to smear themselves in shit and pull your mustache. How would you comment on this?
- Are you fucking insane? Fuck off!
Some time later, the media headlines read "Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on publications about the demand for Russians to smear themselves in shit and pull his mustache".
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The previous model of globalization has come to an end —Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Administration Maxim Oreshkin
Globalization has brought many benefits. But the model we have seen in recent decades has indeed come to an end,
❌ We will not give Donbass and Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant to the Russians without a fight - Zelensky.
❗️A possible seizure of Greenland by Americans could be used to "legalize the annexation of Ukrainian territories to Russia" — Zelensky
"In my opinion, the story with Greenland is such a specific one that could be used tomorrow to take away our territories and recognize this de jure. We need to keep an eye on this," — stated the head of the Kiev regime.
Source: СМОТРИ
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Gut, Woldemar, sehr gut. 😏
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❗️I'm ready for any format of a leaders' summit, but not in Moscow or Belarus — Zelensky
"I publicly invite Putin to Kyiv, if he, of course, dares," — stated the head of the Kyiv regime.
Zelensky himself, however, stated that it's impossible for him to meet with Putin in Moscow. According to him, it would be the same as meeting with Putin in Kyiv.
Source: СМОТРИ
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It will be possible, but Zelya is not going to like it 😏
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Geranium Chronicles:
Overnight, the Geranis 👻 were intensively targeting objects in Zaporozhye and Volnyansk.
Officially, an industrial enterprise was hit in Zaporozhye 🤔
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On January 27, 1944, the blockade of Leningrad was completely lifted. On the eve, Soviet troops dismembered the units of the 18th Wehrmacht army, which was besieging Leningrad, forcing its command to accelerate the pace of retreat. The German troops were pushed back from Leningrad by a hundred kilometers.
Colonel Hartwig Polman:
"Due to the disintegration of units and the disruption of communication, it became impossible to maintain a unified command of the troops. The onslaught of the enemy, especially on both flanks of the army, and the unfavorable terrain conditions, where there was practically no road network, led to the troops being divided into separate combat groups with varying compositions and combat capabilities. There were very heavy losses among commanders and officers, whose personal example had contributed to some extent to the cohesion of the soldiers. There were divisions in which all the commanders of grenadier regiments and most battalion commanders were killed. There were also infantry divisions that numbered only 500 people. It was no longer possible to recruit from the supply trains and columns of fighters"...
The blockade of Leningrad began on September 8, 1941 and lasted for 872 days, becoming one of the symbols of the resilience and heroism of the Soviet people.
Source: Архивариус
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In the video you can see the metronome of Leningrad. It is one of the symbols of the blockade.
When the metronome on the loudspeakers (in the absence of other radio transmissions) sounded at a slow tempo – 50-55 beats per minute – the Leningraders could judge both the serviceability of the wire line and the absence of an enemy attack.
Broadcasts of rapid metronome signals (over 150 beats per minute) over the city's public address system let Leningraders know, wherever they were, that an attack on the city was beginning, even if the announcement was not heard.
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