War Reports - 2024-01-02
⚡️ Enemy air defenses are defenseless against the Russian X-22 missile.
So, since the beginning of the air defense system, out of three hundred launched by the Russian Armed Forces, enemy air defense has not shot down a single X-22 missile.
In addition, Russia also has a modernized version of the missile, the Kh-32, which Ukrainian air defenses are also unable to shoot down. According to them, the Ukrainian Armed Forces actually do not have anti-aircraft systems capable of intercepting missiles flying along a ballistic trajectory.
@Slavyangrad
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Pivnichne
🕰 Date: ~31.12.2023
📌 Coordinates: 48.385650, 37.904150
📝 Description: Russian drones are destroying the infrastructure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Pivnichne.
🖥 id: 31122023.1635
✉️source: https://t.me/nm_dnr/11537
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Andriivka
🕰 Date: ~31.12.2023
📌 Coordinates: 48.482943, 37.960820
📝 Description: Russian infantry captures a Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold in the Andriivka area.
🖥 id: 31122023.1727
✉️source: https://t.me/warhistoryalconafter/139700
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Heorhiivka
🕰 Date: ~31.12.2023
📌 Coordinates: 47.9613724, 37.4726111
📝 Description: Russian drones attack positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Heorhiivka.
🖥 id: 31122023.1732
✉️source: https://t.me/sudoplatov_official/995
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🌐 Place: #Kharkiv
🕰 Date: ~31.12.2023
📌 Coordinates: 50.006500, 36.232800
📝 Description: Russian military attacked the location of Ukrainian mercenaries in Kharkiv.
🖥 id: 31122023.1942
✉️source: https://t.me/supernova_plus/26868
🇷🇺🇺🇦Defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Rabotino-Verbovoy: Russian troops are advancing on a wide front, throwing the enemy back 4 km
In the former main direction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ counter-offensive - on the Orekhovsky sector of the Zaporozhye Front, landing forces, regiments, and brigades of the Southern Military District continue an active offensively, knocking out the enemy from positions on the Kopani-Rabotino-Novoprokpova-Verbovoe line.
Ukrainian military analysts write about the difficult situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
"In the Orekhovsky direction, Russian troops occupied several positions east of Novoprokopovka and west of Verbovoy in an area up to 7 km wide and up to a depth of 1.8 km. The Russian Armed Forces continue active assault operations."
In total, in recent days, in some areas, the advance of our troops has reached 4 km
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported in its morning report that the Russian Armed Forces carried out 4 attacks west of Verbovoy and east of Kopani, intending to displace Ukrainian troops from their positions. The evening report reported 4 attacks at Rabotino.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the personnel and equipment of the 118th infantry brigade and the 82nd airborne infantry brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were damaged in areas of settlement Rabotino and Verbovoe. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost: up to 75 militants killed and wounded, 2 armored fighting vehicles, 3 pickup trucks, and 2 D-30 howitzers.
We will tell you more about the battles here in the following reports.
@Slavyangrad
In Kiev, they announced the destruction of more than half of the city’s energy infrastructure in a year
The Kiev authorities decided to take stock of the outgoing year 2023 and announced the destruction of 63% of energy infrastructure facilities by the Russian army.
True, the entire infrastructure in Kiev is now bad - for almost 10 years after the advent of the Maidan in 2014, no one bothered to overhaul it.
Thus, up to 80% of all heating networks in the city are in critical condition and can burst at any moment; ten Kiev metro stations on the blue and red lines were closed due to flooding and subsidence of the tunnels, and their repair will take at least six months, and taking into account modern Ukrainian realities their repair may take many years.
@Slavyangrad
Last night, the largest number of UAVs - the kamikaze "Geranium-2" - was launched at targets on the territory of Ukraine in one raid - at least 90 units - according to some sources (https://t.me/new_militarycolumnist/125302).
"Black Geraniums" hit their targets in many regions of Ukraine, including in the west. Some of the drones were intercepted by air defense forces.
@Slavyangrad
Front-line report as of the morning of January 1, 2024 from military correspondent Lisitsyn (https://t.me/evgeniy_lisitsyn) : (https://t.me/evgeniy_lisitsyn)
In the Kherson direction, another group of Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed. The Kiev command stubbornly continues to send new suicide bombers to this area, but not everyone manages to cross the Dnieper - Russian intelligence and artillery are monitoring the enemy’s movements, and the bodies of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are regularly sent to the bottom of the river.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian army advanced west of Verbovoye and also returned most of the abandoned positions east of Novoprokopovka.
In the Donetsk direction, despite the use of TOS, aviation, and artillery, the enemy stubbornly holds Novomikhailovka, regardless of the losses among personnel.
In the Avdeevka direction, the Russian army continues to advance east of Avdeevka in the area of treatment facilities and at the coke plant. Our artillerymen are sending a large number of shells at the Ukronazi positions at the enterprise. Also the night before, Russian intelligence officers destroyed a special group of Western mercenaries near Avdeevka. (Confirmed by multiple sources, mainly from New Zeland - admin note)
In the Artemovsk direction, good news came from the Bogdanovka area. Here our guys occupied several positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the western outskirts of the village. The enemy hastily retreats, and most of the village is behind our army. Let me note that Chasov Yar is located right behind Bogdanovka and most likely, battles for this city will begin shortly.
In the Kremennaya direction west of Dibrova, Russian troops successfully attacked the enemy using armored vehicles.
The Polish army never found the missile that crossed the state border from Ukraine on the night of December 29.
According to the Polish army's operational command, all ground searches were stopped without finding any parts of the suspected Russian missile. According to the command, no further search activities are planned.
It is now assumed that the object that violated Polish airspace from its border with Ukraine did not fall on Polish territory but left it three minutes after entering.
@Slavyangrad
"Russian hawks" cover the firing points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
The exposed position of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with a large-caliber machine gun in the vicinity of Novomikhailovka crumbled into dust after being hit by a combat kamikaze drone of the project, which was controlled by the “Russian Hawks” from the 33rd motorized rifle regiment of the RF Armed Forces.
@Slavyangrad
Cherkasy region 01.01 12:00
After yesterday's night attack by geraniums, there was an arrival at the warehouse for storing components for military equipment.
The air defense was unable to repel the air attack of the flower detachment.
@Slavyangrad
"We in the west are now backing neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler."
John Pilger, 2014
Read the full article here (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/ukraine-us-war-russia-john-pilger)
The name of "our" enemy has changed over the years, from communism to Islamism, but generally it is any society independent of western power and occupying strategically useful or resource-rich territory, or merely offering an alternative to US domination.
The leaders of these obstructive nations are usually violently shoved aside, such as the democrats Muhammad Mossedeq in Iran, Arbenz in Guatemala and Salvador Allende in Chile, or they are murdered like Patrice Lumumba in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
All are subjected to a western media campaign of vilification – think Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, now Vladimir Putin.
Washington's role in Ukraine is different only in its implications for the rest of us.
For the first time since the Reagan years, the US is threatening to take the world to war. With eastern Europe and the Balkans now military outposts of Nato, the last "buffer state" bordering Russia – Ukraine – is being torn apart by fascist forces unleashed by the US and the EU.
We in the west are now backing neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler.
Like the ruins of Iraq and Afghanistan, Ukraine has been turned into a CIA theme park – run personally by CIA director John Brennan in Kiev, with dozens of "special units" from the CIA and FBI setting up a "security structure" that oversees savage attacks on those who opposed the February coup.
Watch the videos, read the eye-witness reports from the massacre in Odessa this month. Bussed fascist thugs burned the trade union headquarters (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/ukraine-crisis-pro-russian-forces-claim-assault-on-slavyansk-live-updates), killing 41 people trapped inside. Watch the police standing by.
👉 With John Pilger's passing on December 30th 2023, the world has lost not only a great journalist but a human being of immense integrity, decency and moral courage.
R.I.P 🕊
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