A Skeptic Reports - 2025-02-07

The clock struck 2 AM on Jan 21, 2025.

In Treasury's basement, fluorescent lights hummed above four young coders. Their screens cast blue light across government-issue desks, illuminating energy drink cans and agency badges. As their algorithms crawled through decades of payment data, one number kept growing: $17 billion in redundant programs. And counting.

"We're in," Akash Bobba messaged the team. "All of it."

Edward Coristine's code had already mapped three subsystems. Luke Farritor's algorithms were tracing payment flows across agencies. Ethan Shaotran's analysis revealed patterns that career officials didn't even know existed. By dawn, they would understand more about Treasury's operations than people who had worked there for decades.

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Yars systems are on march

In the Yoshkar-Ola formation of the Strategic Missile Forces, Yars mobile land-based nuclear missile launchers set off on combat patrolling routes.

Yars mobile land-based missile system crews undergo training in marching up to 100 kilometres, deploying units with repositioning and technical equipment of field positions, organising camouflage and battle outposts. Also, servicemen carry out tasks of countering sabotage and reconnaissance groups.

In the course of the manoeuvring actions, missile units conduct the tasks of dispersing in the forest area in order to increase the stealthiness of the Yars launchers. Scheduled combat training activities allow servicemen to check readiness of personnel, weapons, and hardware for long-term duty on combat patrol routes.

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

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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation (6 February 2025)

Part I (see Part II (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19294))

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

▫️In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces hit formations of two territorial defence brigades close to Volchansk and Okhrimovka (Kharkov region).

The AFU losses amounted to more than 25 troops, four motor vehicles, and one field artillery gun. One ammunition depot was destroyed.

▫️The Zapad Group of Forces' units improved the tactical situation and delivered strikes at manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, one mountain assault brigade of the AFU, and one national guard brigade close to Peschanoye, Novaya Kruglyakovka, Zeleny Gai, Zagryzovo (Kharkov region), Shangdrigolovo, Novoye, Yampolovka, and Kolodezi (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to more than 200 troops, one tank, five armoured fighting vehicles, to include three U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, seven motor vehicles, five field artillery guns, two of which were Western-made. One electronic warfare station and four ammunition depots were destroyed.

▫️Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Formations of two mechanised brigades, one assault brigade, one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades suffered losses near Predtechino, Katerinovka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Nikolayevka, Zelenovka, Sukhiye Yaly, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 180 troops, three motor vehicles, one self-propelled artillery system, and one ammunition depot.

▫️The Tsentr Group of Forces' units improved the situation along the front line. The Russian troops inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two heavy mechanised brigades, five mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade of the AFU, and the Lyut Assault Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine near Druzhba, Shcherbinovka, Udachnoye, Novopavlovka, Tarasovka, Dzerzhinsk, Vodyanoye Vtoroye, and Kotlino (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to more than 505 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, to include one U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, two motor vehicles, and seven artillery guns, to include one Western-made self-propelled artillery system.

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

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‼️ 🇺🇦🇷🇺Due to Russian attacks: Ukrainian Energy Ministry announces gas deficit of 1 billion cubic meters

▪️ The department emphasized that due to attacks from Russia, the oil and gas sector continues to experience difficulties.

▪️ Energy Minister Galushchenko said that by the end of the year Ukraine will need an additional volume of gas in the amount of at least 1 billion cubic meters, but now it is necessary to think about accumulating gas for the next heating season.

➖ "Of course, we need gas imports. We will need them to get through this winter and prepare for the next one. As for volumes, we will see what we come out of this season with. We will see, but I think that at least 1 billion cubic meters will definitely need to be imported by the end of the year," Galushchenko said.

t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #Pishchane

🕰 Date: ~05.02.2025

📌 Coordinates: 48.2375223,37.1198347

48.23152, 37.11313

👩‍🚀 Squad: #Sudoplatov

📝 Description: Footage of the destruction of Ukrainian Armed Forces armored vehicles by Russian FPV drones near Pishchane.

🖥 id: 06022025.0903

✉️source: https://t.me/sudoplatov_official/4093

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

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Help! We need a few more paid subscribers to keep up our pace. Are you able to help? We have numerous source subscriptions to pay, and a very small part time staff to keep fed with coffee and donuts!

One of our subscriptions is to translate stuff like this:

«Американские компании заработали миллионы... Эта война принесла миллиарды доходов, кроме всех негативных вещей, которая она принесла нам. Более того, США получила от Украины опыт. Опыт современной, большой, наземной войны».

to stuff like this:

"American companies have made millions... This war has brought billions in revenue, in addition to all the negative things it has brought us. Moreover, the US has gained experience from Ukraine. Experience of a modern, large, ground war."

Your support does a lot!

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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation (6 February 2025)

Part II (see Part I (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19293))

▫️Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defences. Formations of one tank brigade, three mechanised brigades of the AFU, and three territorial defence brigades were hit near Burlatskoye, Novoselka, Novopol, and Rovnopol (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 135 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, two field artillery guns, to include one U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system.

▫️Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces launched strikes at manpower and hardware of one mountain assault brigade and three coastal defence brigades of the AFU close to Shcherbaki (Zaporozhye region), Dneprovskoye, Yantarnoye, and Nikolskoye (Kherson region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 45 troops, two motor vehicles, and one uncrewed surface vehicle.

▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces engaged the infrastructure of military airfields, storage and training sites for the launch of unmanned aerial vehicles as well as clusters of manpower and hardware of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 142 areas.

▫️Air defence systems have shot down two French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs, ten U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, and 106 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

▫️In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 653 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 42,569 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 21,047 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,513 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,292 field artillery guns and mortars, and 31,239 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.

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

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Fwd from @dva_majors

Morning Summary on February 6, 2025

▪️ Overnight, our strike UAVs targeted locations in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa and Poltava Regions.

▪️ In Rostov Region, our air defenses destroyed UAVs in Kamensk, Donetsk, Kamensk, Millerovo and Chertkovo districts.

▪️ No changes in Kursk Region. The "North" grouping of troops is engaged in fierce battles to liberate Kurylivka. Reports of fighting in Maryivka and Pohrebky. A missile strike was carried out on an enemy concentration near the village of Stetskovka in Sumy Region. The enemy has redeployed a consolidated SOF group of 220 personnel to the Sudzha border area.

▪️ In the north of the Kupiansk direction, the Russian Army is crossing the Oskol River (https://t.me/dva_majors/63890) and creating new bridgeheads on the right bank: the settlement of Novomlyns'k in Kharkiv Region has been liberated, reports of advances southwest and south of Topoli, success developing near Dvurechnoye and Zakhidne.

▪️ In the Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmiisk) direction, the Russian Armed Forces continue offensive actions near Yelyzavetivka, in the area of Lysovka, Zverevo, Kotlyne, Udachne, Nadeyivka, Sribne and Andriyivka. The enemy is taking countermeasures to slow the advance of our troops.

▪️ In the Konstantynopil direction, fighting is ongoing in Dachne. There are reports of success of our units in the settlement.

▪️ On the Zaporizhia front, the Russian Armed Forces are destroying the enemy's "Starlinks" in the Orikhiv direction by dropping from UAVs. Our aviation and rocket artillery are striking the enemy's rear areas near Mala Tokmachka and Orikhiv, where the enemy is concentrating manpower and armor. The enemy is striking civilian targets. The town of Polohy was attacked: a UAV strike hit a private residence. In the village of Shevchenkove in Kuibyshev district, two people were wounded by shrapnel in an attack by the AFU. In the village of Tavriya in Tokmak district, on the Zaporizhia-Berdyansk highway, an enemy drone attempted to attack civilian vehicles. Yesterday morning, three drones attacked the territory of a school in the village of Shevchenkove. There were 27 children in the school at the time of the attack. There were no casualties.

▪️ In Kherson Region, in the evening Henichesk was hit by AFU drones. Three residential houses were damaged.

▪️ In Belgorod Region, in the Rzhavets farm in Shebekino district, a construction trailer caught fire due to the detonation of an FPV drone. In Belgorod district, on the Oktyabr'sky - Bessonovo road section, a drone struck a cargo vehicle. In Belgorod, a civilian was wounded by falling drone debris. In the village of Dvuluchnoye in Valuyki district, an FPV drone struck a passenger car. In Shebekino district, in the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, a house was damaged by an incoming projectile.

Summary compiled by: Two Majors (https://t.me/dva_majors/) Original msg (https://t.me/dva_majors/63936)

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💥AFU uncrewed surface vehicle wiped out

The Dnepr Group of Forces' reconnaissance units detected one AFU uncrewed surface vehicle loaded with explosive ordnance near the Dnepr–Bug estuary.

Russian servicemen immobilised the vehicle with the first strike drone, and neutralised it with the second one.

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

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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region (6 February 2025)

⚡️ On the morning of 6 February, Ukrainian armed formations attempted to counterattack in the direction of Cherkasskaya Konopelka and Ulanok in Kursk Region. For this purpose, the AFU used up to two mechanised battalions on armoured vehicles. Assault groups of the enemy launched several waves of attacks in the designated direction.

The Sever Group of Forces' units detected the enemy in time, and the Group's units supported by aviation inflicted fire damage on the AFU assault groups.

⚡️As of 14:00, the attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been repelled and the settlements are under the control of the Russian troops.

The AFU losses amounted to six tanks, three counterobstacle vehicles, three infantry fighting vehicles, and 14 armoured fighting vehicles. The neutralisation of the AFU units is in progress.

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

▫️Over the past 24 hours, units of the Sever Group of Forces during the offensive actions inflicted fire damage on formations of one heavy mechanised brigade, six mechanised brigades, three air assault brigades, one marine brigade, four territorial defence brigades of the AFU, and one national guard brigade of Ukraine close to Bogdanovka, Viktorovka, Gogolevka, Guyevo, Daryino, Zazulevka, Kazachya Loknya, Kolmakov, Kositsa, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Makhnovka, Nikolayevka, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Oleshnya, Pogrebki, Rubanshchina, Sverdlikovo, Staraya Sorochina, Sudzha, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, and Yuzhny.

▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the enemy near Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Zhuravka, Ivolzhanskoye, Iskriskovshchina, Mirlogi, Miropolye, Mogritsa, Sadki, Stetskovka, Yunakovka, and Yablonovka in Sumy region.

▫️Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to up to 205 troops, three tanks, one armoured personnel carrier, 15 armoured fighting vehicles, and 17 motor vehicles were neutralised.

▫️Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction, the AFU losses amounted to more than 57,860 troops, 337 tanks, 244 infantry fighting vehicles, 194 armoured personnel carriers, 1,759 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,844 motor vehicles, 409 artillery guns, 45 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 17 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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💥 Long-range gun hits enemy

Artillerymen of the Dnepr Group of Forces continue to destroy artillery, equipment, fortified positions, and UAV command posts of the AFU in Kherson region.

This time, a 152-mm Giatsint-B self-propelled artillery gun eliminated one UAV command post and AFU manpower by precise strikes.

🎮 Reconnaissance units detected AFU militants moving by car to the building, where an antenna for controlling FPV drones soon appeared. The coordinates of the Ukrainian nationalists' UAV command post were transmitted to the artillery.

🗺 In a matter of minutes, the artillerymen deployed the gun, aimed it, and neutralised the AFU UAV command post by a precise strike.

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

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🇷🇺🔥🏴‍☠ Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers who defected to Russia are burning (https://t.me/freeukrainianrepublic) Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and other enemy equipment en masse while advancing near Pokrovsk and Toretsk

▪️ Fighters of the Maksim Krivonos detachment destroy military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the approaches to Pokrovsk and in the Toretsk area.

▪️This time the guys destroyed:

➖ BMP "Bradley" and BBM "Kozak-2" of the 425th separate assault regiment "Skala" in the area of ​​the settlement Peschanoye.

➖ car in the area of ​​the village of Grishino;

➖ self-propelled artillery unit in the area of ​​the settlement of Aleksandro-Kalinovo.

➖BMP-2 in the area of ​​the settlement Novoaleksandrivka;

➖ UAV "Baba Yaga" in the area of ​​the settlement Lysovka;

➖Tank T-72 in the area of ​​the settlement. Novosergeevka.

t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Storming of Chasov Yar: Russian army took commanding heights and most of the city

▪️Heavy fighting continues for high-rise buildings in the west of the city.

▪️ Ukrainian military analysts again acknowledge the successes of the Russian Armed Forces:

▪️The blocks in the southwest and west have been taken by the Russian army: one completely, another one - 80%.

▪️"The Ukrainian Armed Forces still control 1.5 blocks. There is heavy fighting in other places.

▪️ Ukrainian troops had to retreat from the stadium - now the Russians have the opportunity to advance into the Shevchenko microdistrict and/or bypass it through Workshop No. 2 of the refractory plant.

▪️The Russian army also started fighting for the Novoseverny microdistrict and is making progress.

The Russians are also pressing the Ukrainian Armed Forces units defending along the Bakhmut-Konstantinovka highway.

▪️Apparently the end of the fighting in Chasov Yar is still a long way off.

▪️Yes, the city center and the refractory plant (the main workshops) were lost to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and these are commanding heights, but further on the Ukrainian forces still have places to defend themselves.

▪️Russian troops are currently amassing for a dash along the highway in the direction of Stupochki."

t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in fatalities are more than twice the figure that Zelensky cited, - Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier and journalist Boyko

▪️The 45,100 people mentioned by Zelensky are those whose bodies were removed from the battlefield and their identity was established, Boyko says.

▪️However, there are other victims – and this is the majority, whose bodies could not be evacuated and are considered missing:

➖“They will be included in the personnel lists of their military units for three years,” Boyko writes.

▪️According to Boyko, 63 thousand people are currently registered in the Unified Register of Persons Missing in Special Circumstances.

▪️He also emphasizes that Zelensky mentions only the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, forgetting that the National Guard, Border Service and SBU are also participating in the front and suffering losses.

▪️Taking all this into account, Boyko estimates the real losses in killed soldiers at 105 thousand, but not at all at 45 thousand, which Zelensky presents as the maximum.

▪️As for the wounded, the military estimates the number of irreparable losses at 13 thousand people per month.

▪️The issue is especially acute with deserters:

"In Ukraine, 15-20 thousand conscripts are mobilized monthly (mostly by force). And, nevertheless, they cannot compensate for the loss of personnel. Why? The answer is very simple - the rest are deserters or "dead souls" - summed up Boyko.

t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)

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‼️🇵🇱🇺🇦 At the end of each training of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Europe, desertion begins, — Onet

▪️ The Polish newspaper writes that escapes usually occur at the end of each training. The main reason for escapes is the fear of becoming meat due to the lack of personnel and rotation already at the front.

▪️ They also go AWOL because of the proximity of the border with Germany, where Ukrainian deserters will not be sought with the same zeal as is customary in Eastern European countries.

▪️ The number of Ukrainians in such “voluntary” units usually makes up a third of the total number recruited.

▪️ In addition, the condition of such soldiers leaves much to be desired. In addition to the general underdeveloped physical condition, in some cases there are problems with alcohol or drugs.

➖ "Usually it's not the newbies who run away, but those who have been fighting for a long time, they're just tired of it. The escapes have increased because we've started to run out of people and fierce fighting has started. People can't stand it mentally, many are running away," adds the soldier being interviewed.

t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)

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🇺🇦⚔🇷🇺 The enemy launched an offensive on the Kursk Front , throwing armored vehicles into the breakthrough

▪️In the morning, the armored groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces began offensive operations from the direction of Makhnovka, bypassing Cherkasskaya Konopelka and advanced towards Ulanok, with the goal of reaching Plekhovo.

▪️Ahead of the armored groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are the low-bed vehicles, followed by combat armored vehicles with infantry.

▪️On the approaches to Ulank, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost several units of equipment. Fierce fighting is underway.

t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 The enemy lands infantry in the forests, trying to take Ulanok on the Kursk front , armored vehicles bring in new forces for a breakthrough

▪️The 11th Airborne Brigade is holding back the onslaught of the occupiers’ infantry and armored groups.

▪️The enemy is also using mine-clearing equipment, trying to clear additional areas for new attempts at armored vehicle breakthroughs.

▪️On the approaches to Ulank, paratroopers destroy the enemy with artillery and drone fire. Fierce fighting continues.

t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)

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🇺🇦 ⚔️🇷🇺 Enemy offensive on the Kursk front: fierce battles are underway near Ulanka , the occupiers are moving towards Russkaya Konopelka

▪️Ukrainian troops are attacking southeast of Sudzha, bypassing Cherkasskaya Konopelka, in the direction of the villages of Fanaseyevka and Ulanok.

▪️The goal of the strike may be an attempt to retake the recently lost Cherkasskaya Konopelka and reach the rear of the Russian troops advancing in the Guevo area, and at the same time secure the supply route of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Sumy.

▪️ Let us recall that in the morning, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' mine clearing trawls began demining, and at 7 a.m., the Ukrainian Armed Forces' armored groups began offensive operations from Makhnovka, bypassing Cherkasskaya Konopelka from the flank and moved towards Ulanok.

▪️Also, one of the armored groups moved towards Russkaya Konopelka.

▪️On the approaches to Ulank, the landing party destroyed several minesweepers and a Kozak armored fighting vehicle. Fierce fighting continues.

t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)

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‼️🇷🇺🏴‍☠️Marines burn enemy columns advancing on the Kursk Front

▪️ The 177th separate guards marine regiment of the Caspian Flotilla, together with the Airborne Forces, is participating in repelling the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk border area.

t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)

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🏳️ AFU POW Maksim Voloshin: '80 per cent of men in Ukraine do not want to fight'

A prisoner of war, who served in a territorial defence formation of the AFU, spoke about the specifics of mass mobilisation.

'Eighty per cent of people don't want to fight, they were just forced to. If you don't want, then you'll be imprisoned, and you'll have to take part in the war anyway. They left us no choice,' Voloshin said.

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

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #Tykhonivka

🕰 Date: ~05.02.2025

📌 Coordinates: 48.700891,37.787300

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: A Russian FPV drone hit a T-64BV tank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Tykhonivka.

🖥 id: 06022025.0834

✉️source: https://t.me/yuzhny_front_ZOV/12693

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #Novoliubivka

🕰 Date: ~05.02.2025

📌 Coordinates: 49.162303,37.947450

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: As a result of the strike by the Russian Lancet, the MLRS of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed in Novoliubivka.

🖥 id: 06022025.0841

✉️source: https://t.me/The_Wrong_Side/21507

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #Slovianka

🕰 Date: ~06.02.2025

📌 Coordinates: 48.076765,37.056575

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: Russian UR-77 bombs Ukrainian Armed Forces positions near Slovianka.

🖥 id: 06022025.1327

✉️source: https://t.me/voen_okrug/153

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#UkraineRussiaWar

🌐 Place: #Dachne

🕰 Date: ~06.02.2025

📌 Coordinates: 47.994168,37.173959

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: Russian military raised the Russian flag in Dachne.

🖥 id: 06022025.1354

✉️source: https://t.me/wargonzo/24686

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kursk Direction: Continuation of the AFU Offensive in Sudzha District

What is known as of 2:30 pm on February 6, 2025

Ukrainian formations continue (https://t.me/rybar/67770) attacks in the direction of Ulanka and Russkaya Konopelka.

🔻Footage is appearing online that allows determining the vectors of the enemy's movement.

▪️Based on footage from objective control, the enemy was able to pass through Cherkasska Konopelka completely, but two armored vehicles were hit by strikes from UAVs of the 177th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion on the road north of Fanaseevka.

▪️The information about the status of Fanaseevka itself is not yet unambiguous, but the loss of Cherkasska Konopelka by Russian troops is confirmed. The majority of footage is appearing from the roads right at this settlement.

▪️In addition, in Makhnovka, an IMR M1150 was hit by a drone strike, and another similar vehicle was attacked in an unspecified location.

▪️There are also already footage of strikes on Bergepanzer 2. And it is the use of scarce equipment, not the total number of armored vehicles, that indicates the rather serious plans of the Ukrainian command for these attacks.

▪️In addition, our sources confirm an attempt to advance a column of the AFU towards Russkaya Konopelka, but there are no details yet on this vector of the enemy's attack.

▪️Another direction of the enemy's attacks is called Kruglenkoe, which is in the area of Malaya Loknya, but from there the information about the AFU attacks has not yet been confirmed.

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🇺🇦🇫🇷 French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced the actual delivery of the first Mirage 2000 fighter jets to the Kyiv regime, previously decommissioned from the air force of the Fifth Republic.

Their transfer was announced (https://t.me/rybar/52200) as early as 2023, and we previously reported (https://t.me/rybar/47927) on the training of flight crews on French territory. In total, the French planned to hand over up to 18 aircraft of this type to the AFU.

The enemy can use the "Mirages" to launch cruise missiles Storm Shadow/SCALP. Their use as air defense in the rear areas to intercept "Geraniums" and X-101 during mass strikes by the Russian Armed Forces is also likely.

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📌 As we have already mentioned, (https://t.me/rybar/64242) such replenishment of the aircraft fleet will strengthen the Ukrainian Air Force, especially against the background of the depletion of the resource of Soviet aircraft. However, the flight crew remains the most "bottleneck" for the enemy.

Over the past three years, the Russian Armed Forces have "knocked out" a large part of the enemy's experienced pilots, which limits the use of the same F-16s, pompously supplied in 2024. And given that the Ukrainian Air Force continues to suffer losses, (https://t.me/voenacher/77302) they do not have a quick solution to the problem.

#Ukraine #France

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🇺🇸🖕🇺🇦 The chance that Kiev will get its nuclear weapons back is between minimal and zero, - Trump's special representative for Ukraine Keith Kellogg,

➖"The likelihood of them getting their nuclear weapons back is somewhere between minimal and zero. Let's be honest, we both know that's not going to happen," he told Fox News.

▪️Earlier, Zelensky stated that, in his opinion, if the process of Ukraine joining NATO is lengthy, Western partners should consider the possibility of providing the country with nuclear weapons.

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🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 Massive rout by the 30th regiment of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, advancing on Ulanok in the Kursk region - part 1

▪️Reconnaissance of the 30th "Moscow Region" regiment in the Sudzhan direction destroys the equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, trying to break through the defense of Russian troops.

▪️ Soldiers of the 30th Motorized Rifle Regiment destroy enemy combat equipment using fiber-optic drones "Prince Vandal Novgorodsky" from the ONF.

❗️Soon new videos of the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at Ulanok. The fighting continues, the enemy is still advancing.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 The Ukrainian Armed Forces began counter-offensive actions in the direction of Cherkasskaya Konopelka and Ulanka in the Kursk region this morning, - a statement from the Ministry of Defense.

▪️On the morning of February 6, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked with forces of up to two mechanized battalions on armored vehicles. The enemy's assault groups launched several waves of attacks in the specified direction.

▪️The enemy was identified in a timely manner by the North Force Group, and the units of the group, with the support of aviation, are inflicting fire damage on the assault groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▪️As of 14:00, the attacks have been repelled, the settlements of Ulanok and Cherkasskaya Konopelka are under the control of Russian troops.

▪️The enemy's losses amounted to 6 tanks, 3 obstacle clearance vehicles, 2 infantry fighting vehicles and 14 armored combat vehicles.

▪️ The destruction of Ukrainian Armed Forces formations continues.

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🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 Tanks and armored vehicles are burning: The 30th regiment mass defeats NATO armored vehicles advancing on Ulanok in the Kursk region - part 2

▪️Reconnaissance of the 30th "Moscow region" regiment in the Sudzhan direction has been destroying combat equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the morning, trying to break through the defense of Russian troops.

▪️ Soldiers of the 30th Motorized Rifle Regiment destroy tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, armored recovery vehicles, NATO armored vehicles and other enemy combat equipment with fiber-optic drones "Prince Vandal Novgorodsky".

❗️Soon new footage of the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at Ulanok. The fighting continues, the enemy is still trying to attack.

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‼️🇷🇺🏴‍☠️Marines burn enemy columns advancing on Ulanok on the Kursk Front

▪️Fighters of the Black Sea Fleet Marine Corps unit as part of the North group of forces destroyed armored vehicles of the enemy assault groups while repelling an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of ​​Cherkasskaya Konopelka and Ulanok in the Kursk region.

▪️The 177th Guards Marine Regiment of the Caspian Flotilla is also participating in repelling the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk border area

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‼️🇳🇱🇺🇦 Ukraine received F-16 from the Netherlands

▪️The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reports this. The number is not specified.

▪️Earlier today, the first French Mirage 2000 fighter arrived.

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‼️🇺🇸 🇺🇦Trump's peace plan will not be presented next week; US to conduct audit of war costs, - Special Representative Kellogg.

▪️Trump's special envoy for peace in Ukraine denied Bloomberg's information that this plan will be presented at the Munich conference. Keith Kellogg will discuss this topic, but Trump himself will present the plan later.

▪️In an interview with Fox News, he announced an audit of the costs of the war in both Ukraine and the United States.

▪️Kellogg also stressed that “elections in Ukraine must be held.”

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Trump Announces 'Levantine Riviera': The Ethnic Cleansing and Terraforming Mega-Project of Tomorrow!

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