Daily Report from the Ukraine Field for 2023-02-21
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‼️ Vladimir Putin's statements during the announcement of the message to the Federal Assembly:
▪️I speak at a difficult and milestone time for Russia, at a time of cardinal changes all over the world;
▪️Step by step, we will carefully and consistently solve problems within the framework of the SMO;
▪️Donbass believed and waited for Russia to come to the rescue;
▪️Russia did everything possible to solve the problems of Donbass by peaceful means.
▪️The promises of the West about striving for peace in the Donbass turned into a cruel forgery and lies, these countries were engaged in chicanery;
▪️Western countries trained officers of the Ukrainian national battalions and supplied weapons, Kiev negotiated with the West on the supply of weapons before the SMO;
▪️The Ukrainian regime did not solve the problems of Donbass, but simply played for time, committed political assassinations, and mockery of believers;
▪️Kiev made attempts to get nuclear weapons;
▪️About the countries of the West: the method of deception was tested by them before, they cannot be washed off from shame, and the concept of honor is not for them;
▪️Russia firmly defends not only its own interests - the world should not be divided into "civilized" countries and the rest;
▪️Western elites have become a symbol of total unprincipled lies;
▪️The Russian Federation was open to a constructive dialogue with the West and for many years offered to work on a joint security system;
▪️No other country in the world has such many military bases abroad as the United States has - there are hundreds of them, and the whole planet is covered;
▪️ They decided to hide behind an umbrella from us (on actions to expand NATO);
▪️Russia received a direct refusal on all its fundamental security proposals;
▪️By February 2022, it became obvious that everything was ready for the next punitive action of Kiev in the Donbass;
▪️It was they who unleashed the war, and we use force to stop it;
▪️We protect our homes and people's lives, and the goal of the West is unlimited power;
▪️About spending the West on the war: "Where is the talk about the fight against poverty?"
▪️Those who planned attacks on Donbass planned Crimea and Sevastopol as their next target;
The West has already spent more than $150 billion on aiding Kiev and supplying it with weapons;
▪️It seems that the accusations against Russia are to make everyone forget what the West has done by plunging entire regions into chaos
▪️On the politics of the West: trillions of dollars are at stake and the ability to continue to rob everyone, planting totalitarian principles
▪️The West in the 1930s opened the way for the Nazis to power in Germany, and in our time makes Ukraine "anti-Russia";
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Soledar direction
situation as of 20.00 February 21, 2023
🔻In the north of Bakhmut, assault detachments of PMC "Wagner" advanced to the Bakhmut non-ferrous metal processing plant , where Ukrainian formations dug in. The assault on the territory of the enterprise is complicated by the presence of a developed network of underground utilities.
▪️Using the bridgehead in the Stupka area, the "Wagnerites" advanced towards the village of Yagodnoye and entrenched themselves along the road from Berkhovka . Fighting continues on the hill adjacent to the settlement.
▪️Fighting is also taking place on the northern and eastern outskirts of Berkhovka, as well as near Dubovo-Vasilevka . According to some reports, the assault detachments entered Berkhovka and are trying to push through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an important logistical point of the Ukrainian group near Bakhmut.
▪️The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fear the intensification of the offensive in the direction of Zaliznyansky and Minkovka . Reinforcements have been deployed to Minkovka, where the forward command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is located.
🔻 Positional battles continue in Bakhmut. Among the members of the Ukrainian formations, there is talk of preparing a defense line in Chasov Yar and the surrounding settlements, including Novodmitrovka , in case Bakhmut is abandoned.
🔻In the south-west of Bakhmut, units of the 113th brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine resumed the assault on the positions of the Wagner PMC, three kilometers south-west of Krasnoe .
▪️Tactical aircraft and artillery support the advancing forces. Up to 200 tons of ammunition are transported daily from the Grodovka station to Bakhmut.
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Fortress within a fortress — Wagner PMC assault teams in Artemovsk are advancing through the northern regions towards the AZOM plant
Stormtroopers continue their offensive in the northern suburbs of the city - at the moment it is known about the battles already in the center of Berkhovka and on the outskirts of Yagodnoye, reports of the capture of which turned out to be premature. The general direction of the blow through these villages is the village of Artemovskoye (Khromovo), from where the highway and not yet cut road to Chasov Yar (marked with the number 1 on the map) goes.
At the same time, an offensive is underway in the northern districts of the city in the direction of the center. Here, on the way of the “orchestras”, there is a large industrial zone crowned with the “Artemovsky Metal Processing Plant”, which is a large facility with dense industrial buildings, underground utilities and mines tens of meters deep.
Taking into account the experience of the special operation, according to which the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine actively use industrial complexes as fortifications to conduct defense from them (Azovstal in Mariupol, Azot in Severodonetsk, Knauf in Soledar, as well as mines, and so on), we can expect that the battle in this area will not be easy, unless, of course, the next insiders come true about the withdrawal of militants from the semi-encircled Artemovsk .
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Annual message of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin to the Federal Assembly - part 1
🔻About the course of the special military operation:
▪️Western countries were preparing for this conflict in advance, negotiating with Ukraine on the supply of weapons and preparing the Ukrainian army.
▪️Now the West is almost openly calling the Minsk Agreements a bluff.
▪️The Ukrainian authorities, even before the start of the SMO, were preparing a strike against the Donbass, and later on the Crimea.
▪️The “anti-Russia” project is revanchist in relation to Russia. The idea is to direct aggression to the East and create pockets of instability around the country.
The West seeks to transfer the conflict in Ukraine into a phase of global confrontation.
▪️NATO in January demanded a return to inspections under the START Treaty, this is a theater of absurdity.
The West is directly involved in plans to strike at Russias strategic targets.
🔻Socio-economic support for military personnel:
▪️It is necessary to create a special state fund in all subjects of the Russian Federation, which will provide targeted support to SMO participants and their families.
▪️It is necessary to give each fighter a vacation of 14 days every six months, excluding travel time.
🔻About the army and the defense industry in general:
▪️Officers and sergeants who have shown themselves to be competent, modern and decisive commanders will be promoted to higher positions on a priority basis.
▪️Not all issues of supplying Russian fighters have yet been resolved, we need to understand every issue.
▪️The degree of equipment of nuclear forces reaches 91%, it is necessary to achieve such indicators in other areas.
▪️It is necessary to provide preferential prices for rental housing for employees of defense industry enterprises and stimulate the construction of such residential buildings.
🔻Part 2🔻
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Annual message of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin to the Federal Assembly - part 2
🔻About the Russian economy:
The Russian economy turned out to be much stronger than the West expected.
▪️Russia will build new logistics corridors both inside and outside the country, as well as develop ports on the Black Sea.
This will expand and deepen cooperation with China, India, Iran and other friendly countries.
▪️The free gasification program will be valid for citizens on an ongoing basis.
▪️Maternity capital is indexed by more than 11% and extends to new regions of Russia for children born in 2007.
▪️It is necessary to prepare more than a million workers for an innovative economy, including the nuclear industry and the construction of robotics.
▪️In higher education, it is necessary to synthesize the best Soviet practices and incorporate with the modern ones and train specialists from 4 to 6 years.
▪️No one in Russia felt sorry for those who lost money in Western banks, yachts and so on. They were also reminded of the privatization of the 1990s, when enterprises went for next to nothing, and the ostentatious luxury of the new elites.
🔻About Western countries and relations with them:
▪️Russia suspends the Strategic Arms Reduction and Limitation Treaty with the United States (START). The Ministry of Defense and Rosatom must ensure readiness for nuclear tests.
▪️The elites of the West are going crazy - the inhabitants of these countries understand that they are being led to a spiritual and moral catastrophe.
🔻About new regions:
▪️We have already begun work on the socio-economic restoration of new subjects of the Russian Federation.
▪️One of the goals is the restoration of industry, the construction of infrastructure and modern housing in these territories.
🔻 General points:
▪️Those who embarked on the path of betrayal of Russia will be held accountable under the law, but we will not organize a “witch hunt”.
▪️Russia is an open, independent country and civilization, it was handed down to us by our ancestors, and we must preserve it and pass it on.
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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev meets with Wang Yi, Head of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee
🔻Key points:
▪️The development of a strategic partnership with China is a priority of Russia's foreign policy.
▪️According to Nikolai Patrushev, Western countries are acting against the interests of Russia, China, and other developing countries.
▪️ Moscow and Beijing stand for a more just world order and welcome the increase in the number of countries that choose the path of free and sovereign development.
▪️The deepening of Russian-Chinese cooperation in the international arena is of particular importance. Work is underway along the lines of the SCO and BRICS.
▪️Russia supports China's position on Taiwan, Tibet, Hong Kong and Xinjiang, which are used by the West as an excuse to discredit China.
The United States is replacing the universal norms of international law with the so-called "rule-based order".
The Wall Street Journal published an article according to which Chinese President Xi Jinping is preparing a visit to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the coming months.
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