A Skeptic Reports - 2025-02-03

‼️🇺🇦🇷🇺NATO Secretary General: Ukrainian "front is moving in the wrong direction"

▪️Ukraine's allies must ensure that Russia does not achieve its goals, says NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte

➖ "Our task is to make sure that they never achieve their goals. So no: Ukraine is not losing. And we must support them so that they take a position of strength," he said.

▪️However, when it came to Trump's intentions to strengthen his influence in Greenland, Rutte noted that this was a completely different issue.

➖ "It's about defense in the Arctic, Trump is right. I think it's really good that the Danish prime minister immediately started negotiations with President Trump. In essence, it was about the urgent need for defense in the High North," Rutte explained.

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🇺🇦⚔🇷🇺 Zaluzhny proposed to attack Belgorod in 2022

▪️The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine developed various options for transferring the war to Russian territory, in particular, in 2022, Zaluzhny proposed an offensive on Belgorod to protect Kharkov, but this idea was rejected at the time.

▪️General Nazarov, his former adviser, spoke about this in an interview with British media.

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Footage of liberation (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19194) of Novovasilevka in Donetsk People's Republic

In the course of offensive actions, assault detachments of the 27th Guards Motorised Rifle Division as a part of the Tsentr Group of Forces performed a forced foot march over open parts of a mined area to reach Novovasilevka in Donetsk People's Republic. A cover group protecting the assault detachments deployed attack UAVs to wipe out firing points of Ukrainian militants, thus supporting offensive actions.

Unable to withstand the onslaught of Russian units, the AFU garrison defending the settlement was unable to continue holding the defence.

🔹 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 (2 February 2025)

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 and one air assault brigade of the AFU near Liptsy and Volchansk (Kharkov region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 20 troops, two motor vehicles, and four field artillery guns.

▫️Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of five mechanised brigades and one tank brigade of the AFU near Kondrashovka, Kolodeznoye, Kislovka, Monachinovka (Kharkov region), and Makeyevka (Lugansk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 295 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, 11 motor vehicles, one MLRS combat vehicle, and four field artillery guns. Two ammunition depots and one electronic warfare station were destroyed.

▫️Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Losses were inflicted on formations of two mechanised brigades of the AFU and two territorial defence brigades near Ulakly, Belogorovka, Verkhnekamenskoye, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 200 troops, two motor vehicles, one MLRS combat vehicle, and seven field artillery guns, including two NATO-made guns. Four AFU field ammunition depots were destroyed.

▫️Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued to engage in active offensive operations. Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, two jaeger brigades, one assault regiment of the AFU, and one Lyut Assault Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine near Dzerzhinsk, Druzhba, Lysovka, Nadezhdinka, Shevchenko, Uspenovka, Andreyevka, and Kotlino (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 515 troops, one tank, six armoured fighting vehicles, ten motor vehicles, and six field artillery guns, including one NATO-made gun.

▫️Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of the enemy's defences. Losses were inflicted on formations of five mechanised brigades, one air assault brigade of the AFU, and one marine brigade near Veseloye, Burlatskoye, Razliv, Razdolnoye, Rovnopol, Novoselka (Donetsk People's Republic), and Kalinovskoye (Dnepropetrovsk region).

The AFU losses amounted to more than 140 troops, one tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, and two motor vehicles. Five field artillery guns, including one NATO-made gun, were wiped out.

▫️Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade and two coastal defence brigades of the AFU near Rabotino, Primorskoye (Zaporozhye region), and Antonovka (Kherson region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 60 troops, three motor vehicles, three field artillery guns, and two electronic warfare stations. One ammunition depot was wiped out.

▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces struck infrastructure of military airfields, fuel depots used by AFU, as well as engaged manpower and hardware of Ukrainian armed formations in 153 areas.

▫️Air defence units shot down one U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectile and 44 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

▫️In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 42,139 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,997 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,513 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,129 field artillery guns and mortars, and 31,127 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.

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⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry reports on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region (2 February 2025)

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

▫️In the course of offensive operations, units of Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of one heavy mechanised brigade, six mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, and one territorial defence brigade of the AFU near Ivashkovsky, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Mikhaylovka, Sverdlikovo, and Sudzha. Two counter-attacks launched by enemy units were repelled.

▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the enemy near Baranovka, Ivolzhanskoye, Nizy, and Khoten (Sumy region).

▫️Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 200 troops, two tanks, four armoured personnel carriers, nine armoured fighting vehicles, 15 motor vehicles, and one field artillery gun.

▫️Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 56,770 troops, 329 tanks, 241 infantry fighting vehicles, 189 armoured personnel carriers, 1,672 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,765 motor vehicles, 398 artillery guns, 45 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, eight transport-loading vehicles, 106 EW stations, 15 counter-battery warfare radars, five air defence radars, 33 units of engineering and other materiel, including 14 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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FPV drones of Rubikon Centre in action

An FPV drone team of the Rubikon Centre wiped out an AFU communication system in the border area of Kursk region.

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Rammed into Baba Yaga drone

An FPV drone operator of the Sever Group of Forces destroyed an AFU Baba Yaga heavy drone in Kharkov region.

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🗓 Top News Today

▫️On 1 February, the Armed Forces of Ukraine committed (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19210) another war crime by launching a targeted missile strike on a boarding school in Sudzha. The AFU attack on the civilian facility once again demonstrated the terrorist and inhuman nature of those in power in Kiev.

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19214) the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region. Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 200 troops, two tanks, four armoured personnel carriers, nine armoured fighting vehicles, 15 motor vehicles, and one field artillery gun. 

▫️The Russian Defence Ministry shows artillerymen (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19218) of the Zapad Group of Forces and FPV drone (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19217) teams in action.

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

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‼️🇺🇦🔥 An enemy enterprise in Kharkov was hit at night .

▪️In the Slobodsky district, 2,000 square meters of an industrial and warehouse building were burning, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reports.

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🇷🇺⚔🇺🇦 The Russian army is rushing towards Pokrovsk and the border of the Dnepropetrovsk region

▪️Russian troops continue their powerful offensive near Pokrovsk, writes the military-analytical resource Deep State, which works for the Main Intelligence Directorate.

▪️"The Russians have not stopped their assault operations on the Pokrovsky section for a single day.

▪️In recent days, Russian troops have been actively attacking Serebryanoye, south of Nadezhdenka, from the south and east to Udachnoye, from the west and east in the Kotlino area, and from the southwest to Zverevo. Partially successful, the situation is becoming clearer in many areas."

▪️A fresh unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly entered Udachnoye (on the way to the Dnipropetrovsk region), replacing one of the exhausted brigades there, which is why the Ukrainians are still managing to hold the village.

▪️The 59th separate assault brigade also continues to stubbornly resist in the areas of Novoelizavetovka and Novovasilyevka, which the Russian army is attacking from the Shevchenko-Dachenskoye area.

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‼️ 🇷🇺🏴‍☠️Battles near Kupyansk: reconnaissance hunts for equipment and infantry of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the approaches to the city

▪️In the Kharkiv region, Russian fighters are tracking down and attacking military equipment and Ukrainian Armed Forces militants in built-up areas and forest belts.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 The onslaught of the "🅾️brave": footage of the liberation of Novovasilevka near Pokrovsk

▪️During the offensive, assault units of the 27th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the Center Forces Group made a forced march through open mined areas to the settlement of Novovasilyevka in the Donetsk People's Republic.

▪️The attack aircraft cover groups, using attack drones, destroyed the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ firing points, thereby supporting the offensive actions.

▪️Unable to withstand the pressure of Russian troops, the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison defending the village was unable to hold its ground.

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‼️🇷🇺🏴‍☠ Defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kurakhovo: 381st Regiment in the battle for the enemy fortress city

▪️A selection of footage of the work of the 381st self-propelled artillery regiment of the 150th motorized rifle division of the 8th Guards Army on manpower, equipment, ammunition depots, headquarters and deployment points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at night during the battles for the city of Kurakhovo.

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🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 Attack by (https://t.me/The_Wrong_Side/21444) "Geran" on an oil depot near Sumy, which supplied the Ukrainian Armed Forces group in the Kursk region

▪️The Geran UAV strike was carried out on an oil depot in the village of Nizy (16 km south of Sumy).

➖The military reports that up to 3,000 diesel fuels have been destroyed.

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🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 Epic destruction: Special forces demolished (https://t.me/yuzhny_front_ZOV/12622) the bridge over which the Ukrainian Armed Forces were transporting troops

▪️Near the occupied city of Seversk in the DPR, scouts from the "South" group uncovered enemy mines on a bridge and struck right at these mines.

▪️After a powerful explosion, the bridge was destroyed, which significantly reduced the logistical capabilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Seversky direction.

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🇺🇦👊🇺🇸 Zelensky continues to blame the Biden regime: Ukraine does not know where 100-200 billion in aid from the US went

▪️In an interview with the Associated Press, he denied the Biden administration's statements about allocating $177 billion to Ukraine.

➖“When I hear, and I have heard before, and today we hear from the United States, that America gave Ukraine hundreds of billions, 177 billion. This was the exact figure that Congress and various organizations supported or voted for.

▪️As the president of a country at war, I tell you that we received more than 75 billion. That is, 100 billion out of these 177 or 200, even some people say, we never received.

▪️When they say that Ukraine received 200 billion during the war to support the army and so on, it is not true. I don’t know where all this money is,” he said.

▪️Earlier, Zelensky spoke about the same thing in an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, asking whether this is corruption, “and whose corruption it is.”

Zelensky also recently criticized Biden, because of whom Ukraine "fought alone."

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🇷🇺🔥🏴‍☠️ Fiery hell for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kursk Pogrebki: "Solntsepyok" burns occupiers

The 34th Mountain Brigade, together with neighboring units, continues its offensive in the Kursk region, clearing Russian soil of Ukrainian Nazis.

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🇷🇺⚔️ 🇺🇦 Key Defense Hub: Russian Army Storms Andreevka on the Road from Kurakhovo to Dnepropetrovsk

▪️ "Russian troops are increasingly focusing their attention on Andreyevka," complains the military-analytical resource Deep State, which works for the GUR.

▪️"North of Andreyevka, the Russian Armed Forces are putting pressure on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Slavyanka and Petrovpavlovka, moving along the gullies to the Yasenovo-Andreyevka road.

▪️Recently, everyone could see a "red enclave" on the northeastern outskirts of Andreevka, some took it for an error or a bug. In fact, this is a reflection of the presence and consolidation of Russian infantry in the vicinity of the village, which attacks from different sides, even through the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Over time, the movement of Russian forces has become more understandable, having made their way from Petropavlovka and are now mainly moving to the village from this area along the dug fortifications.

▪️At the same time, Russian infantry attacked through the village of Shevchenko along the engineering and fortification structures that run between Andreevka and Shevchenko. After the first successful attempts to get into Andreevka, the Russians saw an opportunity to develop this and sent infantry...

▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces are having a hard time defending Andreevka due to a number of problems that have not yet been resolved.

▪️At the same time, the Russians are concentrating their efforts between Ulakly and Dachny, which are south of Andreyevka, which could open up additional opportunities for storming the village."

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‼️🇷🇺🔥Hard footage: Ukrainian Armed Forces militants burn along with their positions near Dachnoye

▪️Soldiers of the 2nd battalion of the 102nd regiment of the 150th division of the 8th Guards Army dropped a high-explosive munition on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the vicinity of the village of Dachnoye - on the way from Kurakhovo to Dnepropetrovsk.

▪️The fire from the explosion destroyed the remains of the position and the personnel of the Ukrainian occupation forces.

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #Novoserhiivka

🕰 Date: ~01.02.2025

📌 Coordinates: 49.3353813,37.8612031

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: Russian FPV drones destroyed a T-72 tank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Novoserhiivka.

🖥 id: 02022025.0936

✉️source: https://t.me/Secrets_of_Vinakos/5294

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #Rozlyv

🕰 Date: ~01.02.2025

📌 Coordinates: 47.970856,36.994830

👩‍🚀 Squad: #11Army

📝 Description: Russian Air Force bombs Ukrainian Armed Forces positions with FABs in Rozlyv.

🖥 id: 02022025.0933

✉️source: https://t.me/voin_dv/13144

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #KasachyaLoknya

🕰 Date: ~01.02.2025

📌 Coordinates: 51.2537989,35.2762443

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: Footage of the destruction of the 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by a Russian FPV drone near Kasachya Loknya.

🖥 id: 02022025.0902

✉️source: https://t.me/lost_armour/4381

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #Nyzy

🕰 Date: ~02.02.2025

📌 Coordinates: 50.771418,34.764875

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: Russian Geran UAV strikes Ukrainian oil depot in Nyzy.

🖥 id: 02022025.1637

✉️source: https://t.me/The_Wrong_Side/21444

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Kiev's Existential Trajectory: Western Tone Shifts Again

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Israel Lost the War - What are the Consequences?

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