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2023 Doomsday Clock Announcement - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxB9dM0u4mU
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Doomsday Clock set at closest ever time to midnight after Ukraine invasion

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jan/24/russia-ukraine-war-live-zelenskiy-flags-more-changes-in-corruption-purge-german-defence-group-offers-to-send-tanks-if-needed

In Russia, seeking justice is a crime
Leader Of Group Of Mothers And Wives Of Russian Soldiers Detained En Route To Moscow
Olga Tsukanova, the leader of the Council of Mothers and Wives of Russian Soldiers, was detained on January 22. She was on her way to Moscow, where she planned to hand to the Prosecutor-General's Office complaints from around 700 women in connection with what is happening with their sons and husbands who have been sent to fight in Ukraine. Tsukanova was released by police hours later but ordered to return for questioning. She says she may face a charge of discrediting the Russian armed forces.

[Video on Twitter] - This day exactly 8 years ago. January 24, 2015. The first Russian terrorist mass missile attack on Mariupol. 31 people died, 117 were injured.
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Unfortunately, at the time, the international community did not pay enough attention to this Russian terrorist attack.

Top Ukrainian officials quit in anti-corruption drive

Their departures come as Ukraine launches a broad anti-corruption drive. Recently, authorities have seen bribery claims, reports of officials buying food at inflated prices and one figure accused of living a lavish lifestyle.
Senior aide Mykhailo Podolyak said Mr Zelensky was responding to a "key public demand" that justice should apply to everyone.

Ukraine takes corruption seriously, one more sign that Ukraine has nothing to do with Russia!

Meanwhile in Russia, Prigozhin, one of the pillars of the Russian invasion, supplies the Russian soldiers with rotten food. 'Putin's Chef' Sued 560 Times for Supplying Russian Army With Rotten Food 👍🤣

[Twitter] - After months of debate, Chancellor Scholz decided to deliver battle tanks to Ukraine. - Spiegel.
Reportedly, Germany will deliver Leopard 2A6, it should be at least one company of tanks.

Many other European countries also plan to hand over Leopard tanks to Ukraine. This will make a significant number of Leopard tanks for Ukraine. 🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆

[Twitter] - The US is leaning toward sending a «significant number» of Abrams M1 tanks to Ukraine and an announcement of the deliveries could come this week, U.S. officials said. - The Wall Street Journal

Losses of the russian army as of 25.01.2023, +910 liquidated personnel!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDiMoSLpMuU
Announcement of Abrams tanks being send to Ukraine has dropped.

As the tanks are finally approved, I feel the necessity to write about this as well:

Warning! The film and story in the links below contain scenes of destruction and death and may not be suitable for all audiences.

20 Days in Mariupol | 2023 Sundance Film Festival
Meet the Artist 2023: Mstyslav Chernov on “20 Days in Mariupol”

Ukrainian filmmaker and journalist Mstyslav Chernov offers a window into the practices of conflict zone reporters and an unflinching, anguishing account of the 20 days he and colleagues Evgeniy Maloletka and Vasilisa Stepanenko spent covering Mariupol.

Context:

20 days in Mariupol: The team that documented city’s agony

Mstyslav Chernov is a video journalist for The Associated Press. This is his account of the siege of Mariupol, as documented with photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and told to correspondent Lori Hinnant.

The brave coverage of Chernov, Maloletka, and Stepanenko is something that should be never forgotten. There were news snippets with their reports during those nightmarish days, but that was only a fracture of 30 hours of video material that Chernov has filmed in the city. A documentary presented at Sundance is his way of showing the rest to the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGzRfvgnS_s
This is why the Russians are going to have to fear the Leopards.

Ukraine hit by Russian missiles day after West's offer of tanks

Eleven people died and 11 others were injured after 35 buildings were struck across several regions, the state's emergency service said.
... Moscow launched 55 air and sea-based missiles on Thursday ... 47 of them were shot down, including 20 around Kyiv.
Earlier, Ukraine's air force said it had downed a cluster of Iranian-made attack drones launched by Russian forces from the Sea of Azov in the south of the country (24 out of 24 "Shahed" kamikaze drones were downed).

The previous wave of missiles was 12 days ago. With at least 46 people killed in the Dnipro residential building.

Update a day later: Russia launched 70 missiles at Ukraine on Thursday, 47 of which were intercepted. Moscow's forces also carried out 44 airstrikes, including 18 using Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones. All self-detonating drones were shot down. https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-1-27-23/h_26df37541382cb4e47793936877b6fed

[Video on Twitter] - Solovyev wants to go to the frontlines. Dreams should come true, I think.

Months later, when the Russians see that Solovyev is still not fighting on the front line, maybe the Russians will understand what is wrong with Solovyev.

On the competence of Russian tank crews
[Video on Reddit] - Russian's proceed to knock their fellow soldiers off of their vehicle with a turret.

Senior EU official calls for a ‘Radio Free Russia’ to help exiled media | European Commission | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/27/senior-eu-official-calls-for-a-radio-free-russia-to-help-exiled-media

🤔It is an unfortunate time when Russia is riddled with fake news.
Ukraine has been victimized for almost a year now by Russians led by fake news.

It seems that Russia is a country where people do not trust the government since the Soviet era and where people have a relatively large number of radios purportedly for reasons of national security.
Correct information may be a good suggestion and sign that will lead to normalization of Russia and good results for Ukraine and the world.

Russia Outlaws Meduza, a Leading Independent News Site - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/world/europe/russia-media-meduza.html

In this situation, it is natural to consider it necessary.

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Russian alternative reality - Russian propagandists see Nazis everywhere 🤦‍♂️

• [Video on Twitter] - Attention Germans, Simonyan wants to liberate you!
  Simonyan is the editor-in-chief of the Russian state-controlled media organisations RT. Propagandist Simonyan said "It's not the German people. The German people are 94% against, as reported by German radio. It means that the leadership of the German people is so, it means that the German people have been overrun by fascists again. And shouldn't we liberate the German people from the Nazis? And what else should we think about all this?"
• Putin’s No. 1 Cheerleader Rips into Russia’s War Failures
  Putin’s favorite propagandist lost it on his latest TV show. Propagandist Solovyov said "I’ve been saying it for a while, these bastards will also rehabilitate Hitler in our lifetime... this is where everything is going... WWIII is underway and the West has returned to its Nazi roots. Germany got tired of concealing its Nazi nature and America finally openly acknowledged its own Nazi ways."

Russian invaders target the town of Vuhledar

• [Video on Twitter] - Vuhledar, Donetsk region. Russian forces intensified their attacks there in the past few days.
• [Video on Reddit] - The City of Uhledar. Russia is shelling the city with the use of heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A "Solntsepyok"

Poland will send 60 more tanks to Ukraine, prime minister says
Poland plans to send 60 more modern battle tanks (30 of them are PT-91) to Ukraine in addition to the 14 Leopard 2 tanks it has already pledged, according to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

U.S. Deploys 100 New Tank Transporters to Move M1 Tanks Quickly in Europe - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYkgs8gBQ1o

Jan 28, 2023
tank m1abrams m1a2

Deployed about a hundred "M1300/M1302 Enhanced Heavy Equipment Transporter Systems (EHETS)" for a convoy of M1 Abrams tanks, in the U.S. Army Prepositioned Stock-2 site in Zutendaal, Belgium.
The EHETS will replace the M1070/M1000 Heavy Equipment Transporter System (HETS) and consists of an M1300 tractor (M1070A1 modified to reduce and relocate weight to achieve European road permits) and an eight-axle M1302 semi-trailer capable of worldwide transport.
The EHETS primary mission is to transport an M1A2 Abrams tank and other combat vehicles weighing up to 90 tons.

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It seems that the "Normandy landings" of our time are just around the corner.

“20 Days in Mariupol” wins The Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary at 2023 Sundance Film Festival.

This seems like a good thread to leave the link to a Steam Curator set up by PlayUA.net to mark games by russian developers and russian publishers that you may want to avoid if you don't want to help finance the aggressor.

I finally went through my library and wishlist last week, unwishlisted everything on that list, uninstalled everything on that list that I had installed, and moved everything in my library on that list into a separate category. (Some I had been really looking forward to play, but now I just can't stomach it anymore.)

Webpage with more info: https://playua.net/my-stvoryly-steam-kuratora-yakyj-dopomozhe-unykaty-rosijskyh-igor/ (in Ukrainian)

Their curator to warn against russian developed/published games: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42985013/

Their other curator, highlighting Ukrainian-made games: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43011665/

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Russian alternative reality

• [Video on Twitter] - Commercial break! Yes, this is a commercial break in a propaganda TV show, during which they advertise another propaganda garbage mixed with religion and conspiracy theories.
  The propaganda break talks about prophecies, satanic Europe, Nazi Ukraine, gates of hell, demons around Kyiv, and Banderites. 🤣🤣🤣
• [Video on Twitter] - "We must tear down European and American Nazism" - Solovyev.
• More cognitive dissonance from Russia (cognitive dissonance is a mental conflict that occurs when your beliefs don't line up with your actions)
  [Video on Twitter] - "I am pro peace. So let's strike something!"
  Instead, if the Russian invaders want peace, they can return to Russia.
• Again cognitive dissonance from Russia
  [Video on Twitter] - "With love for Ukrainians we are showing humanism for 11 months" - that is how Skabeyeva calls what Russia does in Ukraine.

[Video on Twitter] - Yet another complaint from Russian mobilized men who were sent to the frontlines without any training and provisions. Yet they do nothing to stop the criminal authorities who send them there. They just whine.

These mobilized Russians are probably used in the Russian 'meat waves' tactic. They are pushed forward to try to exhaust Ukrainian defense forces and ammunition, and also expose Ukrainian firing positions. Wagner's prisoner fighters were used as meat waves, but now most of them are dead, so it's the turn of the mobilized to die.

[Video on Reddit] - Clip showing the effects of a TOW 2B (which is mounted on a Bradley) vs a Russian T-72 tank
Although the Bradley's 25mm autocannon is not the weapon of choice for engaging tanks, its TOW 2B missiles prove very effective against tanks.

A Ukrainian child from Mariupol shares her story
[Video on Twitter] - "My grandpa and almost all of my friends died" - Angelina Balakireva, Mariupol
"a classmate of mine was walking in the yard. He saw something shiny, he didn't know it was a mine. He just picked it up and it exploded in his hands."
Ukrainian children have to face the war thanks to Russia. 💔

A bit of Russian madness

• [Video on Twitter] - "You woke this up in us" - Simonyan reads a poem about killing everyone. "Do you like that?" she asks, addressing the West.
  Simonyan uses a poem with murderous intentions. Nothing surprising. Simonyan and her fellow propagandists have been promising nuclear armageddon for months.
• [Video on Twitter] - "I will bring those of you who get good grades, a cut off ear of a Ukrainian soldier from Azov" - Russian soldier recorded a motivation message for Russian school kids.
  Psycho killer as motivational coach for school children. This is Russia.

[Video on Twitter] - Russians are holding nearly 20,000 ordinary Ukrainians captive. Alina's mother, who suffers from epilepsy and seizures, has been detained and held for almost a year because she is allegedly a sniper.
The detention of civilians wrongly accused of being soldiers is part of Russia's plan to re-educate Ukrainians.

Russians keep shelling civilians they once vowed to protect
Russian shelling kills at least 3 people and wounds 6 in Kherson, city council says

Russia's drone supplier recently had some fire issues
Drone attack on Iranian weapons factory was phenomenal success - sources

There were four large explosions at the military industry factory, documented on social media, against a facility developing advanced weapons. The damage goes far beyond the “minor roof damage” that the Islamic Republic claimed earlier Sunday and has falsely claimed in past incidents.

[Videos on Twitter] - Bright evening in Iran: Various media reports about supposedly a drone attack on the center for the production of ammunition for the Iranian Defense Ministry in Isfahan city. And also, according to media reports, an oil processing plant in another city caught fire.

NV visits Ukrainian camp for Russian prisoners of war - Ukraine news / The New Voice of Ukraine
https://english.nv.ua/nation/nv-visits-ukrainian-camp-for-russian-prisoners-of-war-ukraine-news-50300593.html

Sometimes spam claims that all Russians are going to be killed.
Recently, a Ukrainian news organization did an exclusive interview with a "prisoner of war camp" and if you want to check the situation, this article is for you.

The article also includes a question-and-answer interview with a former mercenary about whether the Russian government has explained to him that mercenaries are not recognized as "prisoners of war" and that they are essentially in a position to be killed.
These facilities are visited by international human rights organizations at any time, so no abuse or massacres have occurred. Russians can safely surrender to Ukraine and escape from the futile battlefield to the safety of the camps.

While I'm back to reading Meduza after the Kremlin watchdog formally declared it an undesirable organization¹ a couple of days ago, Meduza has released an interview with Slavoj Žižek. Finally, a noticeable left-wing philosopher that makes sense [of current events].
I guess they will translate the whole interview into English in a week or so.

¹ Undesirable organization means, among other things, that people who post links to such media can be charged criminally in russia.

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on the russian people

• [Video on Twitter] - Mother of a Russian soldier recorded a video message for Putin. It never ceases to amaze me that these women do not protest against their sons and husbands being drafted. They protest they are not informed about their death and not paid compensation.

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• [Video on Twitter] - "Why in the world do Donetsk and Luhansk receive Russian pensions? Russia supports everyone except its own pensioners", complains this Russian woman.
  The problem does not come from the people of Donetsk and Lugansk. Russia is unable to support its own soldiers or pay compensation to their families when they are dead.
• [Video on Twitter] - "It's so bad in Germany with water, heat, people are freezing, they save on everything. In Russia, everything is better".
  This is the conclusion of the video after showing the shitty living conditions in Novosibirsk, Russia. The propaganda did a great job on this old woman.

some gems of Russian propaganda

• [Video on Twitter] - "Nothing should be considered civilian infrastructure during the war, even hospitals. Anything can be struck"
  It seems that this Russian propagandist is tired of covering up Russian war crimes.
• [Video on Twitter] - Meanwhile on Russian TV: State Duma member Andrey Gurulyov, former deputy commander of Russia's southern military district, argues that striking America with nuclear weapons is the only way forward, because Russia brings peace and calm everywhere it goes.
  At the end, Andrey Gurulyov suggests that Russia in 1945 should have invaded all of Europe. This time, he suggests to keep pushing, for Russia's safety.

[Video on Twitter] - Aleksandr Rutskoy, ex vice-president of Russia, Major General of aviation, said he doesn't see a military victory for the Russian army. He said that the army was led by incompetent people.

[Video] - Boris Johnson says Putin made missile threat
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson said Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike in a phone call last year prior to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
"He threatened me at one point and said, 'You know, Boris, I don't want to hurt you, but with a missile it would only take a minute. Or something like that. You know...jolly," Johnson said in an interview with the BBC.
"I think that from the very relaxed tone that he was taking, the sort of air of detachment he seemed to have, he was just playing along with my attempts to get him to negotiate."
The war began three weeks after the call.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3erP-78S4yI
It seems that a Ukrainian tactical withdrawl from Bakhmut is coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh9l3s8-jQ0
A new Caspian report
Can Ukraine take back Crimea?

A popular video on Twitter (viewed 1M Times)
[Video on Twitter] - Destruction of Russians with a death ray
Maybe it was a Stugna-P using anti-tank missiles

[Video on Twitter] - Destruction of the command post and ammunition of Russians by Ukrainian servicemen of the 28th brigade together with aerial reconnaissance of the 4th brigade
These vatniks get what they deserve.

A video appeared online that is allegedly recruiting US army veterans into the Wagner group. The video's authenticity has not been verified. Funny to watch.
[Video on Twitter] - Prigozhyn is trying very hard to get an American veteran or two on Wagner group for propaganda purposes.

[Video on Twitter] - "Putin always tells the truth!"
But Putin's truth keeps changing.
Listen to the video to hear what Putin said in previous years.

"February and March will be very active" [LINK]

Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence believes that the war is “on the edge” of a “very active” period.
"We are on the edge of a very active phase of hostilities, February and March will be very active,” Andriy Yusov, representative of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence, said on national television.

Ukraine war: Russia planning 24 February offensive, Ukrainian defence minister says

Ukraine's defence minister has said Russia is preparing a major new offensive, and warned that it could begin as soon as 24 February.
Oleksii Reznikov said Moscow had amassed thousands of troops and could "try something" to mark the anniversary of the initial invasion last year. The attack would also mark Russia's Defender of the Fatherland Day on 23 February, which celebrates the army. Mr Reznikov said Moscow had mobilised some 500,000 troops for the offensive.
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Mr Reznikov said Ukraine's commanders would seek to "stabilise the front and prepare for a counter-offensive" ahead of the rumoured Russian advance.
"I have faith that the year 2023 can be the year of military victory," he said, adding that Ukraine's forces "cannot lose the initiative" they have achieved in recent months.

500,000 sounds like a lot, but it's mostly unqualified and poorly equipped troops. They are unlikely to have been formed into cohesive formations capable of major offensive maneuver operations. Besides that, I doubt that Russia's logistics have improved.

It's never Russia's fault 🤥
[Video on Twitter] - According to Girkin, the insidious West is forcing Russia into wars in order to destroy it. Sure! It’s the West that forces Russia to make every stupid thing. Who else!

[Video on Twitter] - Russian propagandists believe that the model of North Korea is the best suited for Russia - the omnipotence of the dictator and slavery of the people
These two Russians dream of becoming as independent as the North Koreans. Hmm, good luck with that. 🤨

[Video on Reddit] - “Russian SU34m dropped four high- explosive aerial bombs on residential buildings in the city of Kupyansk, fortunately three of them did not explode”.
This tells you two things, the Russians are terrorists and they use bombs with a 75% failure rate.

[Twitter] - The United States is readying a $2.2 billion package of military aid for Ukraine that is expected to include longer-range rockets for the first time, and other munitions and weapons - according to Reuters
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The clips are real point of view footage made with a GoPro.
They show an attack from Ukrainian side on some evil Russian jerks.
They speak English as the international legion is involved too.
(spoiler: Ukraine wins)
Viewer discretion advised. You don't see people actually dying as the aggressor is behind walls. But still, this is a real POV footage of the war and people died.

In order:
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpx7TWc58PI
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzfgEVwsyOQ
3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOiGJSf5RPE
4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQeyk1BQ7LE

The reason for posting this. To show how horrible war is. And this footage is not even close to the other bad things that happen.
I only see these kind of things in video games. I can't imagine how horrible it is in real. Fighting for your freedom.

Get them guys! I hope the newer equipment will be a game changer in the upcoming battles.

Slava Ukraini!

[Video on Twitter] - Russia is strong, confident in its rightness and victory - Putin.
Putin says "Values, traditions - all that makes Russia different, makes us strong and confident in ourselves, in our rightness and our victory."
A small collection of appropriate memes found on Twitter

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[Video on Twitter] - Russian soldiers complain that they are used as cannon fodder. It is reported that this video was recorded after the retreat.

They complain that even if they run out of ammunition, they still have to wait for the order to withdraw. They are probably used as human decoys.
Also, a hilarious quote from the video: "[You guys are] like Kadyrov's troops - ran away from you position and are shooting video?" 🤣

In just a few days, two Russian Arctic TOR M2DT anti-aircraft missile systems destroyed. Twelve of them were built in 2018, maybe they cost $25 million each.

• [Video on Twitter] - Destruction of Russian Arctic TOR M2DT anti-aircraft missile system by the 406th artillery brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
• [Video on Twitter] - The second destroyed Russian Arctic TOR M2DT anti-aircraft missile system during recent couple of days. According to the author, this one was destroyed today at 16.00-16.30, also in the Kherson region.

Like every day, Russian terrorist attacks on Kherson - 1 person killed as city of Kherson was shelled 18 times, according to local officials

“Since November 20, a total of 1,810 incoming hits have been recorded in the city. During this period, 77 people died, including one child,” according to the statement, adding that a total of 214 people — including six children — have been injured in total.

Kramatorsk death toll rises to 4 after Russian missile strikes

The death toll from Russian missile strikes on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on Thursday has risen to four, with 18 others injured, Ukrainian officials said Friday.
On Thursday, two S-300 missiles were fired at the center of the city in the Donetsk region, landing about a minute apart and less than a hundred meters from a CNN team.
Four others were killed in a Russian missile attack Wednesday in the same area — an entirely residential zone with shops, a hospital and a clinic.

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Remember Igor Mangushev? That nice guy?
He got shot in the back of his head from very close range from pistol, some pro-kremlin telegram channel imply people of their own did this, while Denis Kazanskyi (Ukrainian journalist) suggests some kadyrovites may be responsible for this.
He somehow survived this and is in critical condition in hospital right now, but beforementioned pro-kremlin channel says even if Mangushev survives, he'll be completely paralyzed for the rest of his life.