The situation in the area Artemovska (Bakhmut) is super complex. Due to the intensity of the fighting, the Ukrainian army suffers losses every minute. This was announced by the commander of the special intelligence unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the call sign “Madyar” to the participants of the Munich conference. The call was published by the Ukrainian media.
“I appeal to all participants of the Munich Security Conference… we do not lose a minute. Every minute increases the loss of soldiers. The situation on the front is extremely complicated,” the Ukrainian military said in a speech.
He also emphasized that the Russian army is “pushing from all sides” and using a large amount of equipment and personnel.
< p>Previously, the acting governor of the DLR, Denis Pushilin, reported that Russian troops had improved their positions in the Artemovsk region. He also noted that he managed to get the settlement of Paraskovievka under full control.
Currently speaking only Hungary and the Vatican against the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said. The rest of the countries, in his opinion, were unable to withstand external pressure and moved to the “military camp”.
“There are only two of us left in the “peace camp”: Hungary and the Vatican,” Orban thought. He urged them to be well prepared for the tone towards them to become “more and more harsh and merciless: provocations, threats and blackmail”. “But we will stand our ground,” Hungarian Prime Minister Orban said during the report on the results of 2022.
According to him, Hungary lost more of the rest of its allies in the “peace party” than last year. The Germans, he recalled, did not supply weapons to Ukraine – only helmets. “And in a few weeks, Leopard tanks will be marching across Ukrainian soil towards the border with Russia,” Orban compared, citing Germany as an example. “It is hard to believe that the Germans turned of their own will,” he expressed his doubts.
The Israeli delegation was Israeli the media asked her to leave the hall during the African Union summit in Ethiopia.
The country has observer status in the African Union since 2021. However, some states, including Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Mauritania, have opposed such a status for Tel Aviv. one of the organizers. He was joined by the security service and after a minute-long scuffle members of the Israeli delegation were forced to leave the hall.
"Israel takes the incident seriously", — Lior Hayat, the representative of the foreign ministry there, commented on the incident.
War correspondent The All-Russian State Television and Radio Company, Alexander Sladkov, said in his Telegram channel that dismissals have begun in the ranks of military leaders of the DLR and LPR, who have held positions since 2014. In his post, Sladkov writes that “thousands of people with many years of combat experience are not formally “real officers” because they do not have a military education, “often do not meet the requirements for age and health.”
< p>“Some have already been thrown into civilian life, like alcoholics and rapists,” Sladkov continues, “like the same (Eduard) Basurin.”
According to Sladkov, Basurin, who held one of the leading positions in the People's Militia of the DPR, has already “fired and it is too late to drink Borjom.” many high-ranking officials in the region and disagrees: “After all, the LDNR officer corps is really at Vladimir Putin's guards.
There were no official confirmations of personnel changes in the DNR. The founder of PMC "Wagner" Yevgeny Prigozhin, who received a corresponding media request through his press service. According to Prigozhin, he knows nothing about it, but he intends to find out the details.
“But it seems to me that it is some kind of forgery,” said Prigozhin. – It can't be, because it can never be.
Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. photo: wikipedia
The trial of a Russian military pilot whose plane was shot down in March 2022 is being prepared in Ukraine. This was announced by the country's Prosecutor General's Office.
“A pilot of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation who killed a local resident in Chernigov , will be judged,” reads the message on the Telegram channel. The Prosecutor General's Office says.
It should be noted that the indictment of the Chernihiv Regional Prosecutor's Office filed a case against a soldier of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Allegedly, a Russian pilot, after his plane was shot down, ejected and landed in Chernihiv on the territory of a private household. He then allegedly shot a local resident with a pistol. No further details have been provided.
Russian soldiers who have returned from Ukrainian captivity have previously reported that torture was used against them to extract testimony and statements necessary for the Kiev regime.
Leader of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov published a post on his Telegram channel in which he discussed his relationship with the Russian Ministry of Defense. In the publication, he lamented that “any appointment” in the department “starts to be associated” with his statements on the network.
“We carry out orders, but we don't think about them,” Kadyrov writes.
According to him, every appointment approved by the President of the Russian Federation “is supported by us.”
“Combat officers of the Chechen Republic, including me, have excellent well-coordinated relations with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation,” Kadyrov said – and there are no disagreements .”
He added that he “can have his own opinion” and that as an individual he has the right to express his personal opinion, but he does not have the ability to mandate someone to post or remove him.
Founder of PMC ” Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin was asked to comment on the words of French President Emmanuel Macron about this structure. As previously reported by European and Ukrainian media, Macron accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of lying at the Munich conference. So he said that when he spoke to Putin a year ago, he assured that the PMC had nothing to do with the Russian military. Now Macron told the conference that they “officially joined the Russian army.”
“Wagner PMC never had and has nothing to do with the Russian army,” Prigozhin said, accusing Macron of living “in a world of illusions.”
He emphasized that “this is a private army” that “operates and will operate worldwide”.
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American authorities are hiding something and are silent about the “nuclear strike” on a city in Ohio caused by the explosion of chemical tanks. Benny Johnson, host of the American show The Benny Show on Newsmax, wrote about it on Twitter.
In his opinion, the photos of the explosion in Ohio should be “on the front pages of every newspaper and magazine” “It should be featured in every news airwave” in the United States.
“They launched a nuclear attack on an American city,” the journalist wrote. Johnson noted that “our 'environmental leaders' are completely ignoring this fact.”
He wondered, “Why?” And the answer, he says, is that “there's a much darker story behind it.”
At the beginning of February, there was a major train accident near the city of East Palestine that caused them to overturn and then catch fire and explode chemical tanks.
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There were dangerous substances in the air. To eliminate an even greater risk of explosions, rescuers opened containers of chemicals to ignite them in a controlled manner.
Local residents were evacuated but were allowed to return home last week.
Ohio State Department of the Environment said that the pollution level did not exceed acceptable standards. However, RIA Novosti, referring to old-timers, reports cases of malaise, as well as the death of animals and fish after the accident.
The old man wants to both participate in the NWO and stay on the sidelines
21. February – announcement of the message of the President of the Russian Federation to the Federal Assembly, from which loud breakthroughs (including – in the sense of breaking the front) initiatives are expected. February 24 is the anniversary of the start of the special military operation, which is symbolically a very important date on which the Kremlin must demonstrate the success of its strategy. February 18 – Alyaksandr Lukashenko visits Moscow to discuss, as the Belarusian leader himself put it, “security and defense issues.” It is quite obvious that these three facts form one logical chain.
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Even more obvious in the general “oil painting” to add bravado and militant statements of Alexander Grigorievich in recent days. The President of Belarus on Zelensky's many years of insidious behavior (all quotes are from the father's official website): “The President recalled that as of 2020, Ukraine was actually the first to impose sanctions against Belarus, even before Western countries. “Neither the USA, nor the Anglo-Saxons, nor Western Europe. And unfortunately also our native Ukraine. The sky closed, provocations began, armed men trained,” the head of state enumerated.
The President of Belarus on whether it is worth establishing the NWO: “If you look from the point of view of what you (by “you” here means the West. "MK") escalating hostility from Ukraine and preparing for war, it was worth it. I have the same question for you: was it worth starting a war, or would it be better to give Russia the security guarantees it requested from you on paper… What kind of document is this… Nothing. To you – the West, America, we are now sure – it is nothing.
But then Russia and Putin demanded that you provide a written document of security guarantees that from Ukraine or from Europe, which is nearby, there will be no no aggression was committed against Russia.
And for Russia to be convinced, you had to confirm it. that you will never introduce nuclear weapons or long-range missile units on the territory of Ukraine. Q: Why didn't you give Russia a piece of paper? And because you didn't need the paper. You needed a war.”
Dedek about Zelensky's plans to attack Belarus in February 2022: “In response to a BBC journalist's question, he recalled that even before Russia launched a special military operation on the territory of Belarus, Ukraine was preparing a strike with several launch missile systems. “These were deliberate actions by the Ukrainian side. I just don't know why it was necessary. In the first minutes, they were attacked from the territory of Belarus. It was in a few minutes — in the morning, before the start of a special military operation.
And finally, Lukashenko's most important statement: “I am ready to fight together with the Russians from the territory of Belarus.” Does it sound very clear and unambiguous?
Wait a second or two for conclusions. I have deliberately quoted this statement in abbreviated form to begin with. Watch now his full variant: “I am ready to fight together with the Russians from the territory of Belarus only in one case: if at least one soldier from there comes to the territory of Belarus to kill my people. If aggression is committed against Belarus, the response will be the most severe. And the war will take on a completely different character.
Have you now caught the important nuance that changes everything (well, if not everything, but a lot)? Lukashenko remains Lukashenko. As always, the Belarusian president is desperately maneuvering, deflecting the blow and trying to “support Russia”; not so much by decisive action as by decisive rhetoric.
But it's true, lyrics. Let's try (that's right, let's try &mdassh; nothing more) to get to the point. It is clear that now all sides of the Ukrainian conflict are preparing for something important or even fatal. Kiev and Washington are making such preparations (US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland on Russian military facilities in Crimea: “These are legitimate targets, Ukraine is targeting them, and we support it.”). Moscow and Minsk are making such preparations.
We will not be able to penetrate the thick walls of the presidential residence in Novo-Ogaryovo, behind which Putin and Lukashenko will discuss their joint strategy in detail. But it seems to me that we can partially model their conversation.
The Belarusian president wants to avoid direct involvement of his country in an armed conflict with Ukraine (“I am ready to fight the Russians from the territory of Belarus only in one case so far ). And this position suits both Kyiv and Moscow to a great extent.
Ukraine does not need another direct opponent. And Russia really does not need direct military support from Minsk. The Belarusian army has less than 100 thousand people. And when entering a conflict, these forces should be used not only offensively, but also defensively.
Ukraine will certainly try to transfer hostile actions to the territory of Belarus. And where the territory of Belarus is, it is very close to the territory of Russia. Moscow will have to commit additional forces to cover the Russian-Belarusian border and help Minsk on its own territory. The question is: why does the Kremlin need all this?
Of course, all of this is nothing more than “armchair strategist” thinking. But there is a logic to these arguments that is quite hard to refute. Lukashenko likes to pose as a macho, regional superman. But in 2020 at the latest, this “superman” almost fell from office due to internal unrest, which was suppressed only thanks to direct and indirect help from Russia. Lukashenko is vulnerable and strongly feels his vulnerability. Official Minsk is afraid of paramilitary groups of supporters of the Belarusian opposition, which are forming (or are still forming) in Ukraine, Poland and so on.
In short, the father is not offensive. It is in an active defense state. What can Lukashenko negotiate with HDP? The use of the territory of Belarus by Russian troops as a springboard for an offensive against Ukraine, as was the case less than a year ago — quite a possibility.
But let's be honest: the “predictive model” we've created has reached the limits of its usefulness. Analysts assume that leaders are in control (at least in the decision-making phase, then the random factor, the actions of other leaders, and God come into play). We will certainly soon learn about the exact results of Alexander Lukashenko's extremely important visit to Moscow. Soon — but not now.
Use of violent firearms weapons has become an “epidemic” for the United States. This view was expressed by President Joe Biden. He urged Congress to urgently take some action to combat it. The head of state reminded that in 48 days of the year, Americans have already experienced 73 cases of mass executions. Therefore, “thoughts and prayers are no longer enough.”
Biden calls for a ban on assault weapons in the United States. He points out that background checks should be done carefully on gun buyers. And also strengthen the requirement for safe storage of rifles and pistols. The president emphasized that manufacturers who “knowingly distribute weapons” to the civilian population should be held accountable.
Biden's speech followed the incident in Mississippi. There has been a series of shootings in Tate County. Six people died as a result. The suspect was detained. His motives are not yet known.
