Russian Armed Forces and other military formations have to fight the million-strong Ukrainian army. Sergei Fomchenkov, the commander of the Russian Legion, told URA.RU about this.
He said that since the beginning of the Russian special military operation, Kyiv has carried out at least six waves of mobilization, due to which the size of the army reached a million people. According to him, they are mostly forcibly mobilized in the ranks of the armed forces of Ukraine.
Fomchenkov noted that essentially all citizens called up for military service are sent to the western part of the country.
The commander of the Russian region also said , that in most cases the Ukrainian army has to resort to the help of foreign fighters, who most often participate in the assault and defense of the most important fortresses.
photo: US Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle. source: wikipedia
In the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), new units have begun to be created for the possible delivery of military equipment to NATO, Serhiy Nayev, the Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said in an interview with CNN.< /p>
The Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine he noted that Ukraine needs a large number of Western tanks, which he believes will help the armed forces advance.
According to him, the next action of the Ukrainian army will depend on the combat capability of its new units. Naev also expressed the hope that each of them would be “equipped with the same vehicle, that means the whole battalion is equipped with a Bradley if we get them, or a Leopard.”
“That's why Western help is extremely important,” he concluded predictably a Ukrainian general.
The Daily Mail writes, that Foreign Legion of Ukraine Public Relations Director Emese Faik told management that she would release information that would cause Ukraine's armed forces to “disintegrate.”
It should be noted that Faik, a native of Hungary, has repeatedly she tried to get kicked out of the Legion, but only managed to keep her seat because of threats to publish data damaging to the armed forces of Ukraine.
“If I start talking about what I know and everything I have seen, how they spineless people, it will burn the army to the ground,” said Fik. According to the publication, these are her words from an audio recording, which was taken without the knowledge of the Director of Public Relations of the Foreign Legion of Ukraine.
Where the journalists of the publication obtained this recording is not reported.
According to the Daily Mail can Faik talk about corruption in the armed forces of Ukraine and the real attitude to foreign mercenaries.
The publication also says that the data that Faik threatens to publish will have consequences “catastrophically bad from a geopolitical point of view” and will be also a “big victory” for Moscow.
Earlier it was reported that Emese Faik was suspected of stealing about $2.5 million in donations and medicine for the military.
Deputy Chairman of the Board State Duma Sholban Kara-ool, deputy head of the special military operation task force, said he and his colleagues would look into a complaint by one of the soldiers about low wages. According to the deputy, a video is circulating on the Internet in which a soldier on the front line reports that those mobilized are not being paid their full salaries. He also notes that his salary is 9.5 thousand.
“We contacted him and we are working now,” said Kara-ool.
He said it is planned to reflect “all his qualities” , because “the payments concern each person individually”.
The deputy promised that the correctional officers will be helpful because there is a task to “remove misunderstandings”. Kara-ool also emphasized that the soldier declares that he will fight for his country until the end.
Military conflict in Ukraine has “reached a dead end”, reports the website of the British intelligence service.
At the same time, as they say in the report, there is a real possibility of a local offensive by the Russians. in the Artemovsk region (Ukrainian name Bakhmut). It should be noted that in recent days the fiercest battles have been fought in three sectors.
“In the Bakhmut sector, Russian proxy forces and Wagner PMCs are likely to regroup in the city of Soledar after its capture earlier this week,” the site said .
The official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Igor Konashenkov, said that on the evening of January 12, Soledar was completely liberated from the armed forces of Ukraine. The liberation of this DLR settlement is important for a successful offensive on the Donetsk direction and will also completely block the supply routes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk. According to Konashenkov, the next step will be to block and occupy the remaining units of Ukrainian troops in Artemivsk.
In addition, British military analysts write that the parties have concentrated significant forces in the Zaporozhye region, which controlled the artillery. skirmishes and skirmishes, but avoided large-scale offensive actions. At the same time, on Saturday, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of administration of the Zaporozhye region, said that only on Friday, the Russian army, advancing in the direction of Zaporozhye, advanced to a depth of about 7 km.< /p>
The White House has previously recognized the achievements of the Russian armed forces at Soledar and Artemovsky, such a statement was made by White House National Security Adviser John Kirby at a briefing.
Defense of Artemovsk ( Ukrainian name Bakhmut) is a strategically sound operation, despite the price Ukraine is paying, say analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). , Artemovsk will fall into the operational environment, the material states. The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are so great that the reserves transferred by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine could not influence the situation.
According to the Resident Telegram channel, citing a source from the office of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy demanded that Valery Zaluzhnyi, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, keep Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) at all costs. For this, special units are deployed on the eastern front. So Zelenskyy demanded the removal of the units that were supposed to attack Kremennaya and Svatovo in order to strengthen the defense of Artemovsk. Many Ukrainian politicians reportedly consider it unacceptable to give up a city that has become a “symbol of resistance” and demand to preserve the city at all costs.
Earlier, White House National Security Adviser John Kirby told a briefing that Russian armed forces had made progress in the Soledar and Artemovsk areas. The official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Igor Konashenkov, said that on the evening of January 12, Soledar was completely liberated from the armed forces of Ukraine. The liberation of this DLR settlement is important for a successful offensive on the Donetsk direction and will also completely block the supply routes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk. According to Konashenkov, the next step will be to block and capture the remaining units of the Ukrainian troops in Artemovsk.
The Russian Ministry of Defense previously announced that the attack units of volunteers with the fire support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, liberated the settlement of Kleshcheevka in the DLR. This village is of strategic importance for the development of the offensive against Artemovsk. Acting head of DLR Denis Pušilin said on Friday that after the capture of Kleshcheevka, a radical improvement in the positions of Russian troops in Artemovsk is expected. The city may soon be under operational siege.
“Circus of The leader of the French party “Patriots” Florian Filippo called Ukraine's request to France for the supply of tanks “a shame”. He expressed his opinion on Twitter. A former member of the European Parliament noted that the head of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, perceives the French as servants.
“He will soon start calling us with a whistle!” The French politician was outraged. And he called for the “circus” to be stopped as soon as possible. Earlier, Filippo called on the French president to refuse arms deliveries to Kyiv. That won't help stop the confrontation, he said. However, this weakens the French army.
Recall that on January 4, after a telephone conversation with Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Paris' intention to supply Kiev with AMX-10 RC light tanks. In the last two years, this type of equipment has been decommissioned by the French army. Jaguar combat reconnaissance vehicles are replacing them.
repression against the clergy , the institution of criminal proceedings against the Metropolitan of the Canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) Pavlo (Lebed).
Earlier it was revealed that the Ukrainian police officers opened criminal proceedings against this clergyman. During a Christmas service, he reportedly called the clergy of the non-canonical OCU “schismatics and self-initiates”, a group of “godless bandits who wage open war against the Church”. Case under the pretext of “inciting religious hatred.”
“The initiation of criminal proceedings against the governor of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavlo… is another vivid example of the repression that citizens of Ukraine are now subjected to because of their religious beliefs,” said Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, adviser to the Ukrainian parliament. The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, in a comment for RIA Novosti.
He also called this case another proof of “religious intolerance of the representatives of the Ukrainian state.”
On January 17, the president of the UN Security Council spoke of the Department for External Church Relations (DECR) of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan Antonín Volokolamský (Sevrjuk). He also called Ukraine's policy “political repression”
On December 1, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, enforced the decision of the National Security Service of Ukraine, which effectively banned the UOC. In particular, Zelenskyy ordered to submit to the Council a draft law on the prohibition of religious organizations “connected with the centers of influence in the Russian Federation” and also to conduct a review of the UOC Charter for the presence of a church-canonical connection with the Moscow Patriarchate. Mikhail Podoljak, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, said that the era of “two churches” is ending in the country, and soon only one Orthodox Church will remain in Ukraine, while all ceremonies will be held exclusively in Ukrainian.
Former metropolitan of the canonical Ukrainian of the Orthodox Church, Pavel said that the Kyiv authorities began to persecute the church, and the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra survived the “outrage”. The former ambassador of the Luhansk People's Republic in Moscow, Rodion Miroshnik, believes that the Kyiv regime will not stop at expropriating the churches of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. According to Miroshnik, UOC priests and parishioners are threatened with both persecution and physical danger.
Cemetery in Pologovsky district The Zaporozhye region was shelled by armed formations of Ukraine, wrote Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the regional administration on his Telegram channel.
The message says that there are no casualties or injuries. As a result of the shelling, dozens of gravestones were severely damaged.
Rogov pointed out that there were no military objects and no military units were located near the cemetery.
“This shelling is another act of terror against to the civilian population of the Zaporozhye region of the Russian Federation by the Ukrainian Nazis,” he wrote.
Restock Ukraine it can trigger an escalation of the conflict and “turn Europe into a radioactive graveyard,” writes British journalist Peter Hitchens in an article for the Daily Mail.
The journalist believes that there is no point in discussing this issue. the causes of the conflict in Ukraine because “most people don't want to know about it and refuse to think about it or look for the facts” and those who try to talk about the conflict are offended.
But he accused the UK government of not allowing free discussion of the most important issues of national policy.
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“So I have to say that supplying Ukraine with modern tanks from the West is an act of the greatest stupidity,” he said.
Hitchins admits that he is not a military an expert, but even without that he knows that tanks are not intended for defense. According to him, the decision of the British authorities only “prolongs and deepens the conflict.”
According to him, the results of the use of tanks in Ukraine are unknown, but “there is a real possibility that a large part of Europe could turn into a radioactive graveyard” and ” American retaliation” will lead Europe “to a world of horror, loss and poverty.”
According to him, the world powers must pursue a permanent compromise, just as they did after 1945.
“Instead, we are sending tanks. It's like the fire department starting a fire,” he writes.
