War Reports - 2023-12-14

The United States recommended that Ukraine consolidate its current positions within a year and increase its own weapons production, sources told The New York Times.

The goal is to create “a sufficiently credible threat that Russia could consider the possibility in meaningful negotiations at the end of the year or in 2025.” American officials believe that the Ukrainian leadership does not understand the instability of US aid and is asking for weapons that do not exist.

“What’s in America’s best interest is to accept Ukraine is going to have to cede some territory to the Russians"

"The idea that Ukraine was going to throw Russia back to the 1991 border was preposterous.

Nobody actually believed it."

Senator J.D. Vance,

https://twitter.com/arktinentuuli/status/1734295296559968533?t=YNexMSQgDjZ77KorPK30mQ&s=19

Washington TimesThis is just a hypocritical attempt to save for America what is left of Ukraine, so as not to lose everything. Naturally, with what remains, the United States will again prepare a springboard for a war with Russia. Moreover, there is a reason for war - to return the territories.

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📌#Artemovsk

⚠️ The Russian Armed Forces continued their offensive within the locality of Bogdanovka, and also pushed towards the H20 Highway codename 'The Road of Death' in the Chasovoy Yar Direction. .

🔻 In the village of Bogdanivka, the RF Armed Forces conducted localised offensives in order to stabilise the front. A small amount of area was taken however the advance itself was strategic.

🔻 Elsewhere, from Artemovskoye to Ivanovskoye, our forces are conducting offensives in order to reach the Road of Death, thus, having an established road route to Chasovoy Yar.

🔻 Fighting continues in Kleshcheyvka (with small changes in favor of our troops). Fighting continues in other settlements with no changes.

Nabrezhnye

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The Russian hacker group Solntsepek took responsibility for a large-scale hacker attack on the largest mobile operator in Ukraine, Kyivstar.

Hackers report that they destroyed 10 thousand computers, more than 4 thousand servers, and all cloud storage and backup systems. They hint that some “caring” employees of Kyivstar helped them in this. Also, other sources reported the receipt of personal data of the operator’s subscribers.

The reason for the attack is the participation of Kyivstar in providing communications to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, government agencies and law enforcement agencies of Ukraine.

In turn, Kyivstar denies the loss of personal data and the destruction of computers with the company’s servers. The SBU reports that the operator’s digital infrastructure suffered “critical damage”, but they plan to partially restore work today.

In any case, the real extent of the damage caused will become clear by how quickly the enemy can restore the operation of its operator and its infrastructure.

@Slavyangrad

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Advancement of assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces in the Rabotino area. Just yesterday, the Ukrainian Armed Forces posted a video of crossing the “Surovikin Line.” Already today, the enemy has been driven back behind the first line of “dragon’s teeth”

@Slavyangrad

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Our forces took one of the largest fortifications south of Marinka after moving a kilometer

@Slavyangrad

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🔴 Urgently

Also, our army has gone beyond the western administrative borders of Marinka and is moving towards Georgievka to the west. The enemy’s defenses have been broken through in the direction towards Kurakhovo.

@Slavyangrad

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📌#Seversk

⚠️ The RF Armed Forces continued offensive operations in Spornoye & Vesele. Success was found in the latter settlement (Veseloye).

🔻 Near the village of Veseloye, the RF Armed Forces continued to attack along the railway using the cover of the treelines. The obvious goal is to flank the Ukrainian garrison at Spornoye, thus creating an operational encirclement.

Nabrezhnye

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Kupyansk direction.

In the forest zone south of Liman First, our army restored the situation, regaining the positions lost last week.

🇷🇺 Sofa General Staff (https://t.me/jnb_news/40031)

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