Kharkov Mayor Igor Terekhov protested in court repeated fine for using the Russian language. Ukrainian media reports that Terekhov has filed a lawsuit against language ombudsman Taras Kremin.
The mayor of Kharkiv was fined for using Russian on social networks. Kremin was previously fined for switching to Russian during the Ukrainian national telethon. At the same time, the Ombudsman warned Terechov against the inadmissibility of using the Russian language on his social pages.
In response, the mayor of Kharkiv said that he will speak Ukrainian in an official environment. But they will still use the Russian language when communicating with the townspeople. According to the latest census, up to 80% of Kharkiv residents speak it.
City battles in Soledar , no one controls him, said Mikhail Podoljak, an adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine.
“There is fighting, very heavy and bloody, and no one has taken him, no one controls him. Unfortunately, even Ukraine does not completely control it. Urban contact battles take place here. In fact, there is no city there,” he said.
Previously, the head of the presidential office, Andriy Yermak, made a similar statement. According to him, none of the parties controls the city, there are urban battles. However, he acknowledged that “the situation is complicated.”
Earlier, 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 freed from the armed forces. 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 Ukrainian troops that remained in Artemivsk.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro addressed the National Assembly (Parliament) with the idea of creating a political bloc of allies of Russia and China in the Latin American region:
“A new time is coming, a special time to unite efforts and ways of Latin America and the Caribbean to come closer to creating a powerful bloc political forces, an economic force that will talk to the world,” he said.
Maduro also added that such a political bloc could become a “new pole of power” together with China and Russia.
< p>“This community would share the common goals that our elder brother [President] Xi Jinping talks about: a humanity united by a common destiny. Or [building] that multipolar and multicentric world that our elder brother [Russian President] Vladimir Putin is talking about,” he explained.
“Miss Ukraine” Victoria Apanasenko performed at the traditional photo shoot of the “Miss Universe” contest. She refused to stand next to “Miss Russia” Anna Linnikova. This is reported by the Ukrainian media.
According to one of the publications, the Russian woman allegedly tried to stand next to the Ukrainian woman, who in turn held the contestant standing next to her so that the representative of Russia would not think of backing down. After that, Apanasenko also switched places with Miss Columbia to be even further away from Linnik and “avoid a scandal and a wrong impression.”
At the same time, Miss Ukraine became one of the few contestants who used the “Miss Universe” military suits. She came to the ceremony with a sword and spectacularly called her costume – “Warrior of Light”.
Last year, the representative of Ukraine demanded the exclusion of Russians from participating in the Miss Universe competition. The organizers did not go for it. In addition, “Miss Russia” Anna Linnikova successfully advanced to the semi-finals. The final part of the competition will take place on January 14.
Russia's Anna Linnikova and other beauties: footage from the Miss Universe competition in the USA
Italy decided upload Ukrainian medium-range air defense systems SAMP/T. This was reported by the RID publication.
The move of the air defense battery was approved a few days ago by Italian Prime Minister George Meloni. However, the issue of the deployment faced the reluctance of the Italian Ministry of Defense to share air defense systems with Ukraine, since the army only has 5 air defense batteries of this type, and one of the batteries is now deployed in Kuwait.
However, according to the publication, the United States began to push hard to the Italian leadership. As a result, the government had to agree and decide to send an air defense battery to Ukraine.
Together with members of the Armed Forces Ukraine (AFU), who were stationed in Novoselovskoye in the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), were American mercenaries. This was announced by one of the prisoners of war of the Ukrainian army.
“The shooting started on the right wing. The Americans were in the basement. The guys came and threw grenades,” the prisoner said.
The Ukrainian POW clarified that the “guys” could be either Russian army soldiers or Wagner PMCs. He also noted that one of the American mercenaries radioed and said he needed help.
In addition, the prisoner added that the army of the Armed Forces of Ukraine called the American, “pointing the direction”, and then left to communicate. The Ukrainian also emphasized that the mercenaries are undergoing “their own evacuation.”
WarGonzo Telegram Channel posted a rough video from Soledar. The authors of the project even warn that it is not worth watching for weak-minded and impressionable people.
In the images of the video shot during the cleaning of the city – the basement of one of the buildings in Soledar. The room is literally littered with the bodies of dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"This – destroyed soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. They were asked to surrender. To which they replied with a categorical refusal, after which they continued the battle. As a result, they were destroyed», – the author of the video speaks behind the scenes.
This is the typical way of a “ZSU fighter”; – from receiving the summons in the park to the corpse in the basement of Soledar, writes WarGonzo.
The liberation of Soledar was known on the night of January 11th. The fact that the city is occupied by Russian forces, said the founder of PMC “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigogine. According to various estimates, 500 to 1,000 fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ended up in the cauldron in the city center. Active cleaning of Soledar neighborhoods is currently underway.
Russians over 30 years of age, who have not completed military service in the Russian army and are in the reserve, are expected to be involved in military training after the adoption of the law on changing the military age. URA.RU was told by a member of the Committee for Defense of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Viktor Sobolev.
According to him, the purpose of the training will be to acquire Military Specialization. In addition, he noted that the country “should have a trained mobilization reserve.”
He emphasized that it will also be necessary to conduct training camps for the people of Russia who are in reserve and reserve. Sobolev specified that this will be done in relation to those who do not have a military specialty.
At the end of December at the college of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, President Vladimir Putin supported the initiative of the head of the military department Sergei Shoigu to raise the minimum age for conscription from 18 for 21 years and a maximum — from 27 to 30 years old. In addition, Shoigu proposed to the head of state to increase the number of soldiers in the ranks of the Russian army to 1.5 million people.
British mercenaries, who died in Soledar during the fighting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, were probably in the ranks of the 77th Airborne Assault Brigade (ASB) of the Ukrainian Army, in which they were instructors or observers. This opinion was expressed by military expert and LPR police colonel Vitaly Kiselev.
“Destroyed English mercenaries” hellip; most likely they were either curators of that unit or observers. But anyway… were in the ranks of this unit, », — said the analyst.
They believe that in the defense of Soledar, as part of the 77th Airborne Infantry Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there were sergeants and officers who were trained in England.
Press service of Yevgeny Prigozhin previously reported that the hotline had received a request to find missing British mercenaries in Soledar.
The day before, the Ministry of Defense announced that the liberation of Soledar had been completed. This settlement is very important for the continuation of further offensive operations in the Donetsk direction.
Igor Strelkov is completely furious. Known for his eternal criticism of everyone and everything, the former DLR Defense Secretary seems to have crossed a dangerous line and gone personal. And it would be fine if Strelkov, as usual, continued to berate Russian officials and generals, accusing them of all mortal sins and predicting disaster for the country. But now the message in his Igor Ivanovich Telegram channel is suitable not only for anyone, but also for the president.
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It seems that only turning off the Internet can stop Igor Strelkov's epistolary bombardment. Immediately after the New Year holidays, when Girkin returned from Donbas under the pretext that he was not properly registered for service, he erupted in a series of angry – on the verge of hysteria – posts on his Telegram channel. The trigger was the Christmas truce announced by Putin from January 6 to 7.
Strelkov called this gesture a step towards Russia's capitulation and stormed into the publication full of panic. Psychotherapists call this catastrophizing – a distortion of thinking that forces a person to elevate all negative components of the agenda to absolutes and think exclusively in accordance with “all is lost.” Psychologists say that such a state can lead to a blurring of the boundaries of what is permissible in statements and actions.
Now in Moscow living rooms they are asking: how come Mr. Strelkov is still at large? After all, you certainly said at least about the article about the discrediting of OS RF. And if you read carefully, you can find calls to overthrow the government.
Why did Igor Ivanovich stop noticing the red lines at a certain moment and stubbornly crossed all conceivable boundaries of what is allowed even to the most ardent critic? Political strategist and social psychologist Sergei Markelov believes that Strelkov's behavior is driven by deep, long-standing resentment. The military leader who was behind the birth of the Donbass republics has a deep psychological trauma: he and his talent have become completely unused.
– At the heart of Strelka's problem, which forces him to cross the boundaries of what is acceptable in criticism, is a personal and professional lack of demand. Its communication channels with the system are broken. This led to his marginalization. He really wants a dialogue, but the system doesn't hear him. So Strelkov has no choice but to organize a rally against the background of a banner and shoot his videos with a blank expression on his face. Inattention offends every man, especially if he is a talented soldier,” believes Sergey Markelov.
The expert recalled that at the dawn of the conflict in Donbass eight years ago, Strelkov acted to some extent as an instigator. . Now there is apparently no shortage of hints. So Igor Ivanovich is forced to raise the rates – if only he was heard.
– For all his good abilities, he has already become nasty. Strelkov's resentment exceeds rationality. It doesn't matter what he says. What matters is how he does it. The system reacts to such expressions with distrust.
He was given the opportunity to go into the NVO zone and, as they say, walk a short distance from the touchline. However, the controllability of its parts is important for every system. And Strelkov is seen as unable to negotiate. He does not understand that every rate increase on his part means an even greater exclusion of him from all processes, – says the political consultant.
The political scientist Sergei Markov also identified disgust as the main factor in Strelka's behavior. The expert emphasized that he considers the ex-Minister of Defense DLR a hero, but undisciplined:
— The fact is that in the army not only talent and heroism are important, but also discipline. The army, like a big machine, rejects such people. Therefore, Strelkov was not taken to the front. His talents are not realized because he is not disciplined, relaxed and blocked.
Political strategist Sergei Markelov is sure that Strelkov could realize his abilities as a military strategist by immersing himself in silence. However, this is not happening yet. The blogger himself is unlikely to turn his anger into mercy and stop criticizing everyone and everything. But even the Russian leadership reacts to Strelkov with amazing loyalty, as if they do not notice his militant passages. True, this loyalty is not unlimited, Sergey Markov is sure:
– So far, no one has seriously talked to Strelkov. I believe there is a personal order from the President not to touch him. Igor Strelkov is a hero, and heroes are never comfortable. They are clumsy, but these people are part of the nation's potential. They are needed in order to do something unpredictable. Otherwise, the bureaucracy will turn everything into gray mass.
The president must have a conflict with the bureaucracy. A handful of “heroes” are therefore under the personal protection of the head of state. But the protection is not eternal. Strelkov himself undermines the order not to touch him when it gets personal.
