One According to the Vladivostok state television and radio company, one of the leaders of the Primorsky partisans gang, Alexander Kovtun, died in the zone of a special military operation.
Kovtun was an active member of the group, whose members were found guilty of killing four residents of the village of Kirovsky and a series of attacks on law enforcement officers, as a result of which two law enforcement officers were killed and six injured.
According to the publication, Kovtun received a life sentence in a colony with a strict regime, which was later replaced by 25 years.
According to the publication, Kovtun signed a contract with Wagner PMC.< /p>
Former CIA adviser James Rickards in In in an interview with Daily Reckoning, he said that the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, is preparing a terrible end to the Ukrainian conflict.
According to him, it is most likely that Biden will send troops to Western Ukraine.
“It is quite likely , that such a move could lead to a direct war between Russia and the United States, and not the indirect one that is currently underway,” said Rickards.< /p>
He specified that the White House has turned the Ukrainian conflict into an existential crisis for America and the North Atlantic Alliance.
Rickards added that Russia is likely to win militarily because Western aid can only prolong the fight but cannot affect the final outcome.
American journalist Seymour Hersh, the author of the investigation into Washington's involvement in the Nord Stream explosions, believes that the United States and Europe are facing serious consequences because of what happened. He said this in an interview with the Democracy Now program.
According to him, the incident showed Europe that it can become completely dependent on America. It could undermine NATO. Europeans have to spend a lot more money on electricity and heating.
For the U.S., the political consequences of what happened will be “colossal,” he said.
“The political consequences for us [for the U.S. ] we will see in the long term – until the potential withdrawal of some countries from NATO, because Biden is not afraid to keep them in the cold, it is more important for him to continue with the military a conflict in which he will not win. I'm just amazed,” said Hersh.
Recall that on September 26, Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 were sabotaged. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has opened proceedings in the matter of international terrorism.
Source in Russian The military-industrial complex announced that ground tests of the Tramp transport drone, which is manufactured on the territory of the Russian Federation, have begun at this moment. At the same time, the first flight of this UAV will take place in April.
It is specified that this drone can transport up to 250 kilograms of cargo over a distance of over 600 kilometers. At the same time, the drone's travel speed can reach 195 kilometers per hour.
“Now the developers are testing TraAMP on the ground. They check the operation of the system, control mechanisms and other parameters. A number of runs will soon be carried out without leaving the track to clarify the calculated parameters,” the source added.
Myśl Browser Polska Piotr Panasyuk said that Poland is currently threatened by “false myths” about the need for financial and military support for Ukraine.
“Now the most common story has become the myth about the need of all kinds. about helping the Zelensky regime,” noted the author.
He clarified that this myth is not only false, but also dangerous for both Warsaw and Kyiv. The “Ukrainian myth” was created from several elements, for example, in Russia's insidious armed attack on Ukraine that took place last year.
At the same time, according to him, the so-called conflict was actually caused by Euromaidan, organized by employees of various Western special services.
Another element is the “phantasmagoria of Russia's weakness”. It is necessary to convince other countries to supply weapons to Ukraine.
Assistant Secretary of the US of State Victoria Nuland called military installations on the Crimean peninsula “legitimate targets” for Kiev.
“These are legitimate targets, Ukraine is targeting them and we support that,” said the US representative at a virtual Carnegie Event at the center.< /p>
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Nuland said that “there are massive military installations in Crimea that Russia has turned into important logistics points.”
MK broadcasts events in Ukraine online. The 358th day of the special operation is underway. A day earlier, Yevgeny Prigozhin said that Bakhmut could be encircled in March-April this year, but the delivery of heavy weapons to the armed forces of Ukraine may affect the timing. The media wrote about the preparations for the meeting between the American and Ukrainian presidents Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelenskyi in Poland. Defense Minister of Ukraine Reznikov announced that he will remain in his post, and Zelensky asked him to do so.
Photo by pixabay.com In conclusion, the White House physician said that mental health head state is in good health, has no neurological disorders.
“A detailed neurological examination confirmed again that there are no signs of a brain or other neurological disorder (stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, ascending lateral sclerosis).” said the doctor.
According to him, the changes in the walking of the President of the United States, which have caused the concern of many citizens, are connected with arthritis. spine and feet.
Vladimir Zelensky. Photo: Office of the President of Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy answered a question about the start of a new Russian offensive in an interview with the BBC.
“Russian attacks are already coming from several directions,” Zelenskyy said.
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Zelensky believes Ukrainian forces can continue to resist Russian advances. In the future, according to the Ukrainian leader, the armed forces of Ukraine will go on a counter-offensive themselves.
At the same time, the president of Ukraine repeated the call to provide additional military assistance to Kiev.< /p>
“Of course, modern weapons accelerate peace. Weapons – this is the only language that Russia understands,” Zelenskyy said.
Previously, Russian Deputy Representative of the OSCE Maxim Buyakevich said. the transfer “to Kiev of weapons, satellite and intelligence data, participation in the planning and execution of military operations makes the NATO countries a partisan conflict”. He added that the goal of NATO's aggressive plans is “to establish the global dominance of the West in the form of a world order based on its hegemony.”
Attacks are now preceded by serious air reconnaissance
On the night of February 16, another series of attacks on Ukraine's critical infrastructure was launched. By morning, some details of the new attack were known. Firstly, the strike was carried out just 5 days after the massive strike on February 10th. So something is wrong with the thesis of Ukrainian propagandists that Russia is running out of missiles.
Photo: Press Service of the Ministry of Defense
Ukrainian songs about “reliable air defense” are also apparently out of place. Andriy Yermak, the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, admitted with regret that infrastructure facilities in the north and west of the country, as well as in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kirovograd regions, were hit at night. He noted that the Russians have changed the tactics of using strikes.
The essence of the changes is that first a survey is carried out, for this “false targets” or in other words “dummies” are used. They help to reveal the location of Ukrainian air defense installations before the actual strikes are carried out.
Russian military experts agree with Yermak in this case. According to experts, the tactics of using air strikes of the Russian Air Force have been seriously modified. Rocket attacks are now increasingly carried out at night. They are preceded by a serious aerial survey using drones and balloons. The Ukrainian air defense is forced to work actively on these imaginary targets while unmasking the positions of its systems and shelling expensive ammunition, which has been in short supply for a long time.
And then, when the deployment of the Ukrainian air defense was opened, the location of its complexes is known, the second wave is kamikaze drones and cruise missiles, which no longer meet the powerful resistance of Ukraine's air defenses. This allows them to achieve their goals more successfully.
Kiev authorities are forced to admit this fact and usually state that Ukrainian air defenses have of course destroyed a large number of targets. But few people believe that anymore. As a number of Ukrainian websites note today, kamikaze drones attacked targets in the Poltava, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Lviv, Nikolaev, Cherkasy and Odesa regions at night, and almost all of them hit the targets intended for strikes.
In Kyiv, they claim that not only the Russian Geran-2, but also Kalibr, Kh-101, Kh-55 guided missiles participated in the raid. In addition, tactical air strikes were carried out directly along the entire battle line, including the borders of the Kharkiv and Belgorod regions.
