A Skeptic Reports - 2025-01-29

▫️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region. The Sever Group of Forces liberated (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19105) Nikolayevo-Daryino.

▫️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19103) the infrastructure of military airfields, drone manufacturing workshops, POL bases.

▫️ The Russian Defence Ministry shows Uragan (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19095) MLRS crews, a 120-mm mortar, (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19111) UAV (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19104) pilots, T-72B3 (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19109) tank crews, and Su-35s (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19107) aircraft in action.

▫️ The 4th-gen nuclear submarine Arkhangelsk, Yasen-M Project, has arrived (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19097) at the home port of the Northern Fleet.

#TopNews

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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Southern California Eaton Fire possible cause

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Useless. Maybe if the US just quit fucking with everyone, we’d be good.

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End of Neutrality in Europe

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #Nikolski

🕰 Date: ~27.01.2025

📌 Coordinates: 51.304064,35.208990

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: As a result of a strike by a Russian FPV drone, a Ukrainian Armed Forces tank was destroyed in Nikolski.

🖥 id: 28012025.0709

✉️source: https://t.me/vremjazov/1730

Map: militarysummary.com (https://militarysummary.com/#/map)

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #KurskRegion

🕰 Date: ~28.01.2025

📌 Coordinates: 00:50(51.235167,35.343725)

01:25(51.298045,35.328925)

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: Russian FABs are burning out the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region.

🖥 id: 28012025.1601

✉️source: https://t.me/kamerton_press/652

Map: militarysummary.com (https://militarysummary.com/#/map)

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#UkraineRussiaWar

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the town of Dvorichne was taken by the Russians 🏘⚔️.

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #PokrovskDirection

🕰 Date: ~28.01.2025

📌 Coordinates: 48.279028,37.147820

48.065334,37.078725

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: Footage of destruction of Ukrainian equipment by Russian FPV drones in the Pokrovsk direction.

🖥 id: 28012025.1606

✉️source: https://t.me/sashakots/51564

Map: militarysummary.com (https://militarysummary.com/#/map)

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #Zhuravka

🕰 Date: ~28.01.2025

📌 Coordinates: 51.2117733,35.0183112

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: Russian FPV drone hit a CV-90 infantry fighting vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Zhuravka.

🖥 id: 28012025.1620

✉️source: https://t.me/lost_armour/4335

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⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry reports on the progress of the special military operation (28 January 2025)

Part I (see Part II (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19119))

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

▫️In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU and one territorial defence brigade near Liptsy and Volchansk (Kharkov region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 25 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, and two motor vehicles. Two field artillery guns and one ammunition depot were neutralised.

▫️As a result of decisive actions of the Zapad Group of Forces, Dvurechnaya (Kharkov region) was liberated.

Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of one tank brigade, two mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of the AFU and two territorial defence brigades near Topoli, Zapadnoye, Peschanoye, Lozovaya, Kopanki, Zeleny Gai, Krasnoye Pervoye (Kharkov region), Makeyevka (Lugansk People's Republic), Yampol, Grigorovka, and Ivanovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 330 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, to include two U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, and six motor vehicles. Four field artillery guns, to include three of Western-made, two electronic warfare stations, and two ammunition depots were eliminated.

▫️Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Formations of two mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades were hit near Verkhnekamenskoye, Yantarnoye, Zelenovka, Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Chasov Yar, and Dachnoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 220 troops, two American HMMWV armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one U.S.-made 105-mm M119 gun. One ammunition depot was wiped out.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry reports on the progress of the special military operation (28 January 2025)

Part II (see Part I (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19118))

▫️Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences. Manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, two national guard brigades, and one territorial defence brigade were hit close to Shcherbinovka, Dzerzhinsk, Lysovka, Krymskoye, Zverevo, Novoyelizavetovka, Vozdvizhenka, Yasenovoye, Novovasilyevka, and Kotlino (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 600 troops, two tanks, two armoured fighting vehicles, to include one U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, seven motor vehicles, and one field artillery gun.

▫️Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences. Formations of one mechanised brigade of the AFU, one national guard brigade, and one territorial defence brigade were hit near Bogatyr, Vremevka, and Rovnopol (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to more than 115 troops, one tank, two motor vehicles, and four field artillery guns, to include one manufactured by Western countries.

▫️Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have engaged manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade, one coastal defence brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade close to Stepnogorsk, Novopokrovka, Rabotino (Zaporozhye region), Antonovka (Kherson region), and Kherson.

The AFU losses were more than 40 troops and three motor vehicles.

▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike UAVs, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged the infrastructure of military airfields, drones and uncrewed surface vehicles manufacturing workshops and depots as well as clusters of enemy manpower and hardware in 152 areas.

▫️Air defence systems have shot down 15 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 64 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

▫️In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 41,635 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,870 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,022 field artillery guns and mortars, and 30,853 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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⚡️Russian Defence Ministry reports on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region (28 January 2025)

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region.

▫️During the offensive, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on formations of one tank brigade, one heavy mechanised brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, one marine brigade, and three territorial defence brigades of the AFU close to Viktorovka, Gogolevka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Zaoleshenka, Pervy Knyazhy, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolayevka, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Sverdlikovo, Sudzha, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. Five enemy counter-attacks were repelled.

▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery strikes engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Bogdanovka, Zamostye, Kazachya Loknya, Pervy Knyazhy, Kolmakov, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Lebedevka, Loknya, Martynovka, Melovoy, Mirny, Nikolayevka, Yuzhny as well as Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Vodolagi, Glukhov, and Zhuravka in Sumy region.

▫️Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 280 troops, one tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, six armoured fighting vehicles, and 20 motor vehicles.

▫️Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 55,470 troops, 322 tanks, 239 infantry fighting vehicles, 184 armoured personnel carriers, 1,642 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,664 motor vehicles, 392 artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, eight transport-loading vehicles, 103 EW stations, 14 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 32 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, nine armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.

The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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Ukranian keep using POWs to train drone pilots and film propaganda.

They trapped a Russian POW to “break in” a new drone pilots. You can see it’s not combat, there is a camera on the solider and a separate drone, that is not in a hurry like in a combat situation. That’s because it’s an untrained pilot, who needs to be desensitized for combat use. Ukrainian army not only does such atrocities, but they also proudly brag about it online. The Russian solider in a last act of defiance showed them the finger.

Lord Bebo

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Attempt to hide failed

The Sever Group of Forces' FPV drone team wiped out one Kozak armoured fighting vehicle of the AFU in the border area of Kursk region.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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🗓 Top News Today

▫️ As a result of decisive actions of the Zapad Group of Forces, Dvurechnaya (Kharkov region) was liberated. (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19118) Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov has congratulated (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19120) command and personnel of the 25th Separate Guards Sevastopol Red Banner Motorised Rifle Brigade named for the Latvian Riflemen on successful combat missions during the liberation of the settlement.

▫️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19122) the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region. The AFU has lost more than 280 troops, one tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, six armoured fighting vehicles, and 20 motor vehicles.

▫️The Russian Ministry of Defence published the footage of the liberation of Novoyegorovka. (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19124)

▫️The Russian Defence Ministry shows Msta-S (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19115) self-propelled howitzers, Giatsint-B (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19116) guns, T-90 'Proryv' (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19128) tanks, UAV (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19127) operators, and engineer troops (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19125) in action during the special military operation.

▫️Two Tu-160 strategic missile carriers have performed (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19126) a scheduled flight in airspace over neutral waters of the Arctic Ocean.

#TopNews

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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Fwd from @NeoficialniyBeZsonoV

American Operation Northwoods, developed in 1962 by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, provided for provocations under the Cuban flag with mass casualties among its own citizens. The goal of the operation was a pretext to attack Cuba.

The plan included:

- Explosion of an American ship in Guantanamo;

- Terrorist attacks in Miami and other cities in Florida;

- Destruction of a civilian aircraft;

- Attack on a US military base bordering Cuba.

Kennedy did not sign this plan, and a year later he was assassinated. Can you imagine how many such operations with the goal of attacking other countries and governments were carried out by the United States after 1962?

NeoficialniyBeZsonoV Original msg (https://t.me/NeoficialniyBeZsonoV/43284)

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Yankwashing: How the Empire Erases Truth

The U.S. doesn’t just rewrite history, it deletes it by design. The brainwashing is so thorough that Americans live in a constant state of historical amnesia, blind to their country’s failures, overstating its victories, and erasing the contributions of others. From 1812 to World War II, Vietnam, and Iraq, the truth is either reduced to a footnote or buried altogether. The result? A population that cheers for endless wars while clutching a false narrative of moral and military superiority.

Take the War of 1812. In Canada, it’s a cornerstone of national history: a David-and-Goliath tale where British and Canadian forces not only repelled an American invasion but marched into DC and burned the White House. Yet in American textbooks? It’s barely a footnote, and when it is mentioned, it’s Yankeewashed as a “draw.” A draw? The U.S. had every advantage: manpower, geography, and resources. Britain, preoccupied with the Napoleonic Wars, sent limited resources across the Atlantic, yet even with these constraints, British and Canadian forces decisively crushed the U.S. invasion. By 1814, with Napoleon defeated, Britain unleashed fresh reinforcements, delivering the final blows and marching into DC to burn the White House. But the empire prefers its citizens to believe their flag was heroically waving, not that it survived by begging for mercy.

WWII is another glaring example. The sacrifices of the Soviet Union are minimized to prop up the myth of America as the sole savior of freedom. Trump recently claimed that “70 million Soviets died to help the Americans,” which is absurd on many levels. First, the actual number is closer to 26 million. Second, the Soviets didn’t “help” the Americans, they won the war. The Red Army destroyed more than 75% of Nazi forces, fighting the Wehrmacht’s best divisions on the Eastern Front while the Allies faced second-tier troops - Hitler Youth and middle-aged conscripts in Normandy. But you won’t hear that in American classrooms, where D-Day is lionized and Stalingrad is an afterthought.

And then there’s Vietnam: a war most Americans couldn’t even locate on a map, let alone justify. The empire sold it as a crusade against communism, but in reality, it was an illegal invasion and occupation. Millions of Vietnamese civilians were slaughtered, their villages carpet-bombed, their land poisoned with Agent Orange. Yet many Americans still cling to the fantasy that they were the victims. The same script played out in Iraq, with fabricated WMDs and media cheerleading a war that killed a couple million civilians and destabilized an entire region. Americans still ask, “Why do they hate us?” as if the answer isn’t written in the rubble of Baghdad.

Meanwhile, the U.S. lectures its vassals about not paying enough into the NATO protection racket, demanding they spend 5% of GDP on defense. For what? What kind of return on investment does the U.S. get for its trillion-a-year defense spending? To be humiliated by rice farmers in Vietnam and terrorists in sandals in Afghanistan? No empire that loses to barefoot guerrillas has any business lecturing anyone about military spending. The U.S. military is the most pathetic, bloated, and overhyped force in modern history, a protection racket made in the image of Tony Soprano. History will remember the US as the accidental empire.

This brainwashing is no accident. The Deep State and its Mockingbird media allies have perfected the art of Yankwashing, crafting a narrative where the U.S. is always the hero, never the aggressor. The goal is to hide the truth and weaponize ignorance, to ensure the American public cheers for the next invasion, the next “intervention,” the next imperial adventure.

How long can an empire survive on a foundation of lies? Because as the multipolar world rises: Russia, China, the Global South - the truth is becoming harder to bury. History will eventually judge the United States not as a benevolent superpower but as a crumbling empire that burned the world while lying to its own people.

- Gerry Nolan

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Fwd from @dva_majors

Morning Summary for January 28, 2025

▪️ In Kursk Region, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that units of the "North" grouping of forces, during offensive operations, liberated the settlement of Nikolayevo-Daryino (https://t.me/warhistoryalconafter/204514). The "Northerners" report that our troops are advancing in the vicinity of Sverdlikovo, as well as in the nearby forest belts, with fierce battles ongoing in the Kurilovka area. The AFU transferred a sabotage group on an armored personnel carrier to Belopolye (Sumy Region, 10 km south of Tiotkino), which was detected by our scouts and destroyed by UAV operators. At night, the enemy transferred over 100 of their paratroopers to the Sudzha district, who were immediately sent to counterattack our positions in the Nikolsky farmstead area. Comprehensive fire strikes were delivered against the enemy personnel.

▪️ From Chasiv Yar, reports of battles on the southwest outskirts of the city.

▪️ In Toretsk (Dzerzhynsk), bloody battles are raging on the outskirts of the city, where the AFU hold their last lines of defense. The enemy is remotely mining the terrain and striking with numerous drones.

▪️ West of the liberated Kurakhovo, in the eastern part of the settlement of Andriyivka, heavy battles are underway, with the Russian Armed Forces advancing from the settlements of Shevchenko and Petropavlivka. According to estimates by enemy military channels, Andriyivka is extremely important for the AFU defense: next to it, across the Volchia River, is Konstantynopil, capturing the villages will allow closing the cauldron from Dachne to the Sukhyi Yaly River.

▪️ The capture of Velyka (Bolshaya) Novosilka opens up opportunities for our command to develop success both northward, towards the settlement of Bogatyr (which will allow operating in the remaining part of the DPR south of the Volchia River), and westward, towards the junction of the borders of the DPR, Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk Regions.

▪️ The Zaporizhia front remains without significant changes, while the Russian Armed Forces are increasingly striking the rear of Orikhiv, at the settlement of Preobrazhenske. Our FPV operators disrupt the enemy's logistics, trying to keep the supply routes of the AFU under fire control.

▪️ At night, enemy UAVs were shot down over the Belgorod and Bryansk Regions. From 6 PM to 10 PM Moscow time, air defense forces destroyed five Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles: three UAVs were shot down over the territory of the Republic of Crimea and one each over the territories of the Kursk and Belgorod Regions. From 12:30 PM to 1 PM Moscow time, air defense forces destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the territory of the Belgorod Region.

▪️ In the Belgorod Region, in Shebekino, as a result of the arrival of an ammunition in a residential building, the roof was pierced, windows were broken, and a fence and a car were damaged. In the village of Kukuyevka of the Valuyki district, a drone struck a parked passenger car. The village of Novaya Tavolzhanka of the Shebekino district was attacked by a UAV of the AFU.

▪️ In the DPR, four civilians in Horlivka were injured by artillery strikes by the AFU using NATO-caliber cluster mun Original msg (https://t.me/dva_majors/63289)

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicles of the special military operation

for January 28, 2025

Russian forces attacked the enemy's energy infrastructure facilities with drones in Uman and the Ivano-Frankivsk area, as well as struck an industrial zone in Kharkiv.

In the Artemivsk direction, Russian troops are fighting in the area of the Dolhoye-2 tract, and are also advancing in the residential areas of Chasiv Yar.

In the Novopavlivka direction, assault teams are fighting in the center of Udachne, advancing towards Dnipropetrovsk Region. The Russian Armed Forces also liberated the village of Nadezhdynka.

🔻Detailed analytical report on events in the Special Military Operation zone is available on our closed channel @rybar_plus_bot

High-resolution maps:

Situation in the special military operation zone (ru; (https://rybar.ru/piwigo/upload/2025/01/28/20250128193458-c1659a0c.jpg) en) (https://rybar.ru/piwigo/upload/2025/01/28/20250128193453-9fdc3dd1.jpg)

Novopavlivka direction (ru; (https://rybar.ru/piwigo/upload/2025/01/28/20250128193456-f6d7e96c.jpg) en) (https://rybar.ru/piwigo/upload/2025/01/28/20250128193455-a25aff54.jpg)

Online maps available by subscription at map.rybar.ru (https://map.rybar.ru/)

#Artemivsk #digest #report #Ivano-Frankivsk #map #Novopavlivka #Russia #Ukraine #Cherkasy #Kharkiv

@rybar

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Zone

Chronicle of events for January 27-28, 2025

In the Gaza Strip, work is underway to clear the rubble and prepare for the establishment of camps for Palestinians. The Israel Defense Forces announced the opening of the Salah ad-Din route for the return of Palestinians to the north through the "Netzarim" corridor.

In the West Bank, Operation "Iron Wall" continues, during which the IDF destroyed a bomb-making laboratory. There are casualties among the civilian population, including a two-year-old child. At the Kalandiya checkpoint in Jerusalem, a militant who threw an explosive device was eliminated.

On the border with Lebanon, the IDF is strengthening its troop presence, blocking roads for the return of Lebanese. Israelis report provocations by Hezbollah supporters, but no escalation has occurred so far.

🔻A detailed analytical report on events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone is available on our closed channel @rybar_plus_bot

High-resolution map (https://rybar.ru/piwigo/upload/2025/01/28/20250128174420-95ab0539.jpg)

English version (https://rybar.ru/piwigo/upload/2025/01/28/20250128174434-af91ebfc.jpg)

⭐️ Online maps are available by subscription at map.rybar.ru (https://map.rybar.ru/)

#digest #report #map #Israel #Palestine

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The Russian Armed Forces (https://t.me/condottieros/8585) continue to align the line of combat contact far west of Kurakhovo, along the Constantinople-Andreyevka line.

The cauldron being formed may include four settlements at once, and the encirclement of Andreyevka already resembles the Russian Armed Forces' operation to encircle and cut Bolshaya Novosyolka.

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Former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken did everything possible in his last two months in office to accelerate the start of a war between the US and Russia, Tucker Carlson said. (https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1883939641499258998?t=DBb0kAkrHjq8397oosl98g&s=19)

"I see his fingerprints everywhere," the journalist emphasized.

In an interview with Matt Taibbi, he noted that he considers the former head of the State Department "evil, and also a dumbass" and admitted that it was Blinken who actually ran the country under the administration of former US President Joe Biden.

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In the Kurakhovsky direction, Russian troops entered and consolidated their positions in Andreyevka — fighting is taking place in the center of the settlement.

Andreyevka is extremely important for the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces: Constantinople is located next to it across the Volchya River, and, apparently, the Russian Armed Forces will try to capture these villages in order to close the "cauldron" from the settlement of Dachnoye (in the area of which fighting is also taking place) to the Sukhie Yaly River.

Victor vicktop55

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The advance of the Russian Armed Forces into the settlement of Chasov Yar

(Bakhmut direction) in the southwest of the urban development is being recorded; Russian servicemen also captured a system of fortifications and a bunker in the forest in the southeast of the city.

Victor vicktop55

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The US has suspended funding for aid programs to review them, and the Biden team has been spending the budget “like drunken sailors,”

The US has lost its leadership.

"Trump considers the rapid development of AI in China, as exemplified by DeepSeek, a "wake-up call" for the US and an incentive to restore leadership in this area" - White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt

the White House press secretary said at a briefing.

Victor vicktop55

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