🇷🇺Our prisoners of war after the exchange.
Welcome back! The Motherland has not forgotten you.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Excellent footage of the destruction of NATO equipment in the Kursk region. By the end of the year, the Kursk adventure had surpassed the "counteroffensive on Rabotino" in terms of the volume of armored vehicle losses.
Читать полностью…🇸🇾The Kurds have hit two more Turkish SERHAT-DUAL counter-battery radars and an ACV-15 IFV near Manbij using FPV drones.
Interestingly, in the first case, Turkish soldiers lined the windshields with sandbags to increase protection. In the second case, it appears that the drone was detonated by a tree branch, although if the cumulative jet had been successfully formed, it could still have reached the armored vehicle and hit it.
The new SERHAT-DUAL radars are based on the Otokar Cobra armoured vehicle chassis and are said to be capable of detecting not only mortar shells, but also artillery shells, missiles and small drones.
The ACV-15 IFV is a deeply modernized American M113A1 APC with a turret with a 25-mm autocannon, similar to the Bradley, and reinforced armor.
🏴❌🇦🇷❗️ — Argentinean media reports that an Unknown armed group raided the Infantry base of the Third Regional Unit in Eldorado, Misiones, near the aeroclub, and stole its weapons.
➡️ During the assault, they killed Mauricio Miñarro, a non-commissioned officer who was on guard duty at the site.
➡️ According to reports, at the time of the attack, the victim was alone, since his colleagues were not present.
➡️ The attackers took FAL rifles and shotguns, and investigations suggest that they could be of foreign origin, presumably from Paraguay and Brazil.
➡️ A major security operation is currently underway, involving 1,600 police officers, drones and helicopters, to locate those responsible.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Russia and Ukraine have conducted a prisoner exchange according to the formula 150 for 150, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
Following the exchange, Russian servicemen are now in Belarus, where they are receiving the necessary assistance, the Russian Ministry of Defense noted.
🇸🇰🇺🇦Slovakia called Zelensky's words that "Putin instructed Fico to open a second energy front" against Ukraine "nonsense".
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇺🇦The $2.5 billion aid package for Ukraine announced by Biden is divided into two parts and will not be delivered in full at once, the White House clarifies.
Half of it, $1.22 billion, is being provided through the United States Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), a program that invests in weapons production that Ukraine may receive months or even years later.
These are the last funds available under this program.
The second part of the package - $1.25 billion - will be transferred in weapons in the near future.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Russian military liberated the settlement of Novoolenovka in the DPR, the Defense Ministry reported
Читать полностью…🇵🇱🇷🇺❗️In 2025, Poland will build a road to the border with the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation to enable the rapid transfer of troops and security forces if necessary.
This was reported in an interview with FT by Deputy Minister of the Interior Duszczyk.
🇷🇺🇺🇦It is reported that the small farmstead of Agronom , located just a couple of kilometers from the eastern outskirts of Sudzha , has been liberated.
Military personnel from the North Korea took part in the battles for the settlement.
🇺🇸Former President Jimmy Carter, who died yesterday, criticized the United States for its constant wars and advised Trump to end them.
Carter, who once initiated détente between America and China, wrote a letter to President Trump in 2019 outlining his views on the China issue (Trump was using harsh anti-Chinese rhetoric at the time).
Following this letter, the current president called the former, and they had a conversation that Carter himself later recounted to the parishioners of his home church (Carter was an active Baptist).
He said Trump complained to him that China was "getting ahead of us."
"And you know why?" Carter said. "I normalized diplomatic relations with China in 1979. Did you know that since 1979, China has been at war with anyone? None. And we have remained at war," he said (note that China and Vietnam did fight a brief border war in early 1979).
Carter also said the United States is "the most belligerent country in the history of the world" because of its desire to impose American values on other countries, and suggested that China was putting its resources into projects such as high-speed rail rather than into defense spending.
"How many miles of high-speed rail do we have in this country?" Carter asked. "Zero," the congregation responded.
"I think we've wasted three trillion dollars," Carter said, referring to American military spending.
“China hasn’t spent a dime on war, and so they’re ahead of us. In almost every way. And I think the difference is that if you took $3 trillion and you put it into American infrastructure, you’d probably have $2 trillion left over. We’d have high-speed rail. We’d have bridges that don’t collapse. We’d have roads that are maintained. Our education system would be as good as, say, South Korea or Hong Kong,” the former president added.
It should be noted that Donald Trump also regularly positions himself as a president under whom America does not wage wars, but ends them. He promised to end the war in Ukraine, and, according to Western media, this has become his most frequently repeated promise over the past year.
🇷🇺A robotic dog with a camera is being tested by Russian Railways to inspect carriages.
Читать полностью…🇺🇦🇸🇾Meanwhile, an official Ukrainian delegation will arrive in Damascus today to meet with the new Syrian leadership.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺Russia to lift moratorium on deployment of medium- and shorter-range missiles with nuclear warheads – Lavrov.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦Our drone operators are catching and destroying wandering enemy infantry in the Kursk region.
Читать полностью…🇺🇦Footage from Odessa, where five TCC employees are chasing a guy. Unfortunately, they were able to catch up.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦Another German tank "Leopard 1A5" was destroyed in the Shevchenko area (south of Krasnoarmeysk).
Читать полностью…🇮🇱🇸🇾Israeli Merkavas and David armored vehicles in the Syrian town of Madinat al-Salam (formerly Madinat al-Baath) in the Quneira province in the Golan Heights.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇸🇾The reason for the "degradation of the situation" in Syria was Bashar al-Assad's inability to cope with social problems in the country in the context of a protracted civil war (c) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
As I wrote earlier, Assad won the war, but lost the peace.
🇭🇷In Croatia, the incumbent president, Zoran Milanovic, won the presidential elections.
He was noted for his constant criticism of arms supplies and spending money on Ukraine. He is considered to be close in views to Orban and Fico.
But unlike them, in Croatia he has far fewer real powers.
🇺🇸🇺🇦Pentagon in process of transferring 'hundreds of thousands' of artillery rounds and thousands of missiles to Kyiv, Biden says
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺US to Provide Ukraine with $15 Billion in Future Income from Frozen Russian Assets — Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmyhal
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦The enemy reports that the Russian Armed Forces have driven the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of the railway station in Chasov Yar.
Читать полностью…🇵🇱🇺🇦Polish MP calls for not allowing Ukrainian soldiers into Poland after the war ends.
Confederation MP Witold Tumanowicz said that there are two priority issues for Poland: firstly, "not a single Polish soldier in Ukraine", and secondly, "ensuring that regular Ukrainian soldiers do not come to Poland".
"We know very well what happens to soldiers who are no longer at the front. Unfortunately, they tend to create organized crime, so we cannot allow them to come to Poland," the MP said.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Two FPV kamikazes operating on fiber optics against another M109 self-propelled gun of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk border area.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦In the morning, the enemy acknowledges the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the western part of Kurakhovo in the area of the Kurakhovskaya thermal power plant and the garage cooperative. The Ukrainian space in Kurakhovo is inexorably shrinking.
The Russian Armed Forces also continue to press to the south and southwest of Kurakhovo in the direction of the Constantinople-Kurakhove highway.
To the northwest of Kurakhovo, the Russian Armed Forces are expanding the control zone in the Shevchenko area.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Minus the BMP together with the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier. Kursk border area.
Читать полностью…🇰🇷The second Jeju Air plane, like the one that crashed on December 29, suffered a landing gear malfunction but was able to return to the airport, Yonhap reported.
South Korean authorities have ordered an inspection of the country's entire fleet of Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Destruction of a Ukrainian AMX-10RC wheeled tank using an ATGM in the area of the Sukhie Yaly River in the Kurakhovsky direction.
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