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Update from Ukraine | Why Wagner lost in Soledar? Prigozhyn's Victory was stolen | End of Drama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3msby0KF1HE
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1- 13 Jan: Russian Squad GETS DEMOLISHED in Brutal Crossfire | War in Ukraine Explained
1-13-2023 6:00 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OXxJ2J_K4I
2- “Putin is crazy”: after the warming of relations - China in a sharp turn against Russia
1-13-2023
https://www.jforum.fr/poutine-est-fou-net-virage-de-la-chine-contre-la-russie.html
JFORUM.FR
https://www.jforum.fr/poutine-est-fou-net-virage-de-la-chine-contre-la-russie.html
Chinese officials claimed that China believes that Russia will fail in the war against Ukraine and that it will be presented after the defeat as a “small power” with a negative image.
China believes that Russia will lose the war against Ukraine and leave it as a “small power”, Chinese officials said today (Thursday).
Officials attacked Russian President Vladimir Putin, called him “crazy” and warned that Beijing should not “follow in Russia’s footsteps” and blindly support the war in Ukraine.
The sources claimed that they believed that Russia would not be able to win the war in Ukraine – and that the “expensive and deadly” conflict would make Moscow a “small power” with a weak economy and a negative image vis-à-vis the countries of the world.
The officials’ words mark an important turning point in friendly relations between Russia and China – only about a month after the two countries pledged to deepen bilateral relations.
It now seems that President Xi Jinping should do his best through his officials to distance himself from Putin and the war, as he now strives to improve his diplomatic relations with the West.
JForum with press agencies www.maariv.co.il
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Kremlin realizes that attack on Soledar was very costly - US State Department
13.01.23
Censor
https://censor.net/en/news/3393221/kremlin_realizes_that_attack_on_soledar_was_very_costly_us_state_department
“Obviously, the Russian multi-month campaign has led to extraordinary, huge losses of personnel.” Thousands of unprepared and poorly-equipped Russian conscripts were killed,” the State Department representative said in a comment on the situation on the front in Ukraine.
The situation around Soledar continues to be difficult, but the Kremlin has already realized that the attack on this Ukrainian city cost them very much.
Deputy Spokesman for the U.S. Department of State Vedant Patel said this at a press briefing in Washington.
“It’s clear that Russia’s months-long campaign has resulted in extraordinary, enormous casualties. Thousands of untrained and poorly equipped Russian conscripts have been killed,” the State Department spokesman said in a commentary on the situation at the front in Ukraine.
Patel stressed that this offensive cost the Russians a lot: “The Kremlin itself has admitted that its decision to attack Soledar came at a high price.”
PMC “Wagner” recruits women prisoners for war, they are already being sent to the front, - human rights activists
Censor.
13.01.23
https://censor.net/ua/news/3393219/pvk_vagner_verbuye_na_viyinu_uvyaznenyh_jinok_yih_uje_vidpravlyayut_na_front_pravozahysnyky
Olga Romanova, a journalist and head of the Rus sitting Foundation, expressed the opinion that Wagner PMC has started recruiting female prisoners in Russian prisons.
As the Censor informs.No, this became known from the LRT website.
Olga Romanova states that PMC Wagner has started recruiting female prisoners in Russian prisons:
“According to our data, women are already being sent to the front, the first batch was taken from the Krasnodar Territory at the end of December, but we do not yet know anything about their future fate,” she said.
In particular, she also added that their organization “Rus sitting” began to receive letters from women asking for assistance in sending them to war since the beginning of the war.
In addition, she also added that after the New Year, recruitment of prisoners to the Wagner PMC began in Chechen prisons, although previously mercenaries were not noticed in this region, in addition, there are many political prisoners in prisons in Chechnya.
“Chechnya is such an extraterritorial entity that no one knows what is happening there,” the journalist stressed. “I don’t think that politicians will be taken to war, because first of all, Kadyrov’s opponents are sitting in dungeons.”
Romanova notes that Chechnya was the last subject of the Russian Federation where there was no recruitment of mercenaries, and there was no mobilization.
“The fact that recruiters were allowed to enter Chechen prisons is a matter of personal agreement - Prigozhin and Kadyrov. Prigozhin contributes to the liberation of Chechen authorities, and, of course, Kadyrov will supply PMC Wagner with people, “said the head of the Rus sitting Foundation.
Russian students need to pray for good grades,
as they risk Russian conscript mobilization for the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.
GUR Intercept Calls - “I don’t buy anything, or they’ll poison me!” (English Translation)
1-13-2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHfyJ2_kUUw
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Russia tried to claim months ago it destroyed American-made armored vehicles that the US didn’t even offer Ukraine until last week
Jake Epstein
www.businessinsider.com
Jan 13, 2023, 2:32 PM
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-claimed-destroyed-bradleys-us-hasnt-sent-them-to-ukraine-2023-1
A video that has recently surfaced online shows a Russian defense official claiming Moscow eliminated four US-made armored vehicles in Ukraine. The problem is that the US only offered the vehicles to Kyiv last week, and they haven’t even arrived yet.
The video, which began making the rounds on social media this week, shows Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov claim that Ukraine at one point lost 17 infantry fighting vehicles — including four Bradleys “made in the USA” — on the battlefield.
The months-old video is from a Russian defense ministry briefing in early September, but it has since resurfaced given that the White House announced last week that it intends to send Bradley infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine.
Konashenkov’s false claims also appear in a September 4, 2022 report that was published to the Russian defense ministry’s official Telegram page.
“During the day of hostilities in this direction, the enemy lost 11 tanks, 17 infantry fighting vehicles, including four US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 10 other armored combat vehicles, 5 pickup trucks with heavy machine guns and more than 150 military personnel,” the defense ministry said.
At that point in time — early September — Ukraine was pressing forward with a lightning-fast counteroffensive in the country’s northeastern Kharkiv region, which saw the country liberate thousands of square miles of territory from under Russian occupation.
There had been no mention of a forthcoming transfer of Bradleys from the US to Ukraine at that time.
The US only announced last week that it would send Bradleys to Kyiv, along with NATO allies Germany and France, which are expected to deliver Marder infantry fighting vehicles and AMX-10 RC armored fighting vehicles. These weapons, long sought-after by Ukraine, are expected to give the country a significant ground combat mobility and firepower boost.
But the Bradleys won’t arrive in Ukraine for a while, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters at a Thursday briefing.
While he could not provide a specific date, he said “those vehicles will go to Germany first so that the Ukrainians can train on them as part of the combined arms and Joint Maneuver Training that we’re conducting,” adding that this will happen in “weeks, not months.”
Moscow’s claims in September are part of a repeated pattern of fabricating kills and victories throughout the war in Ukraine which, nearly 11 months in, has not gone the way that Russian President Vladimir Putin has planned.
For example, as recently as this week Russia claimed that its forces killed hundreds of Ukrainian troops in a strike carried out in revenge for a deadly attack that Ukraine executed during the New Year holiday using US-provided High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). However, journalists and local officials who visited the site of the Russian strike said there was no evidence of a single casualty.
Russia has also claimed to have knocked out numerous HIMARS, but so far there hasn’t been any evidence to back up any of those claims either.
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Praying they overthrow Putin
PRAYER FOR RUSSIA
Pray for God’s protection for those protesting the Ukraine invasion.
Pray that so many people show up to protests that prisons cannot hold them all.
Pray for Russian troops to lay down their arms, rather than be involved in continuous fighting.
Pray for people of Russia who have lost loved ones becuase of the megalomaniac needs of Putin
Pray that God would be near to all who are grieving.
MOST OF ALL... Pray that Putin will put the well-being of both the Russian and Ukrainian people before his political ambitions and stop this invasion. Amen
“Praying they overthrow Putin”
Amen.
your posts are a laugh riot!
“your posts are a laugh riot!”
Most on both sides detest the killing of both Russian and Ukrainian troops.
However, you also are entitled to your personal freedom to enjoy.
Rifts in Russian military command seen amid Ukraine fighting
By The Associated Press
As Russian troops wage a ferocious house-to-house fight for control of strongholds in eastern Ukraine, a parallel battle is unfolding in the top echelons of military power in Moscow, with President Vladimir Putin reshuffling his top generals while rival camps try to win his favor.
The fighting for the salt mining town of Soledar and the nearby city of Bakhmut has highlighted a bitter rift between the Russian Defense Ministry leadership and Yevgeny Prigozhin, a rogue millionaire whose private military force known as the Wagner Group has played an increasingly visible role in Ukraine.
Putin’s shakeup of the military brass this week was seen as a bid to show that the Defense Ministry still has his support and is in charge as the troubled conflict nears the 11-month mark.
Prigozhin declared Wednesday that his mercenary force had captured Soledar, arguing the prize was won exclusively by Wagner. The Defense Ministry waited until Friday to announce its capture, saying that it became possible thanks to air and artillery strikes and airborne forces’ maneuvers. A Ukrainian army spokesman denied that, saying Kyiv’s troops were still in Soledar.
The Defense Ministry initially didn’t mention the private contractor, but after Prigozhin accused the military of “constantly trying to steal Wagner’s victory,” it acknowledged his group’s “courageous and selfless action” to storm the city.
The 61-year-old Prigozhin, who was known as “Putin’s chef” for his lucrative catering contracts and was indicted in the U.S. for meddling in the 2016 presidential election, has expanded his assets to include Wagner, as well as mining and other spheres. He has scathingly criticized the military brass for blunders in Ukraine, saying Wagner was more efficient than regular troops.
He has found a powerful ally in Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who has deployed elite troops from his southern Russian region to fight in Ukraine and also assailed the military leadership and the Kremlin for being too soft and indecisive.
While both have pledged loyalty to Putin, their public attacks on his top generals openly challenged the Kremlin’s monopoly on such criticism, something that Russia’s tightly controlled political system hadn’t seen before.
In the reshuffle announced Wednesday, the Defense Ministry said the head of the General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, was named the new chief of Russian forces in Ukraine, while the former top commander there was demoted to Gerasimov’s deputy after only three months on the job.
The Washington-based Institute of the Study of War saw the reshuffle as an attempt by the Kremlin to “reassert the primacy of the Russian Ministry of Defense in an internal Russian power struggle,” weaken the influence of its foes, and send a signal to Prigozhin and others to reduce their criticism.
Prigozhin and his allies have repeatedly criticized Gerasimov, the main architect of the Russian operation in Ukraine, and held him responsible for military defeats.
Russian troops were forced to retreat from Kyiv after a botched attempt to capture the Ukrainian capital in the opening weeks of the war. In the fall, they hastily pulled back from the northeastern Kharkiv region and the southern city of Kherson under the brunt of a swift Ukrainian counteroffensive.
The former commander in Ukraine, Gen. Sergei Surovikin, directed the retreat from Kherson, the only regional center captured by Russia, and was credited for shoring up command and increasing discipline in the ranks. But a Jan. 1 Ukrainian missile strike in the eastern town of Makiivka killed scores of Russian troops and tainted his image.
Political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya observed that Gerasimov’s appointment marked yet another attempt by Putin to resolve his military problems by shaking up the brass.
“He is trying to reshuffle the pieces and is therefore giving chances to those who he finds persuasive,” she wrote. “But in reality, the problem is not with the people, but with the tasks at hand.”
Stanovaya argued that Gerasimov could have asked for “carte blanche in the heat of verbal battles against the background of some very tense discussions.” For Putin, ”this is maneuvering, a tug-of-war between Surovikin (and sympathizers like Prigozhin) and Gerasimov,” she added.
Gerasimov, who began his military career as a Soviet army tank officer in the 1970s, has been chief of the General Staff since 2012 and was seen at the start of the conflict in February sitting next to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a very long table with Putin. His appointment to directly lead the forces in Ukraine drew stinging comments from some Russian hawks.
Viktor Alksnis, a retired Soviet air force colonel who spearheaded botched attempts to preserve the USSR in 1991, noted that Gerasimov had overseen the action in Ukraine even before his appointment.
“This decision reflects the understanding by our political and military leadership that the special military operation has failed and none of its goals has been fulfilled in nearly a year of fighting,” Alksnis wrote on his messaging app channel. “Replacing Surovikin with Gerasimov will change nothing.”
Mark Galeotti, who specializes in Russian military and security affairs at University College, London, said the appointment handed Gerasimov “the most poisoned of chalices” as he now will bear direct responsibility for any more setbacks.
“Gerasimov is hanging by a thread,” Galeotti said in a commentary on Twitter. “He needs some kind of win, or a career ends in ignominy. This may well suggest some kinds of escalation.”
Galeotti also warned that frequent reshuffling of Russia’s generals could erode allegiance in the officer corps.
“If you keep appointing, rotating, burning your (relative) stars, setting unrealistic expectations, arbitrarily demoting them, that’s not going to win loyalty,” he said.
Prigozhin, meanwhile, has taken advantage of military setbacks in Ukraine to expand his clout by making the Wagner Group a pivotal element of the Russian fighting force, augmenting the regular army that has suffered a heavy attrition.
Ukrainian officials alleged Wagner contractors have suffered massive losses in the fighting in Soledar and Bakhmut, advancing “on the bodies of their own comrades.”
Once convicted of assault and robbery, for which he served time in prison, Prigozhin in recent months went on a tour of Russia’s sprawling network of penal colonies to recruit inmates to join Wagner’s forces to fight in Ukraine in exchange for pardons.
He recently released a video showing about 20 convicts allowed to leave the ranks of fighters after a half-year on the front line, while also making clear that anyone breaking ranks will face brutal punishment.
Footage posted in the fall showed a Wagner contractor being beaten to death with a sledgehammer after allegedly defecting to the Ukrainian side. Despite public outrage and demands to investigate the incident, authorities have turned a blind eye to it.
Observers have warned that by giving Prigozhin a free hand to run Wagner as a private army governed by medieval-style rules, the government has effectively planted dangerous seeds of possible upheaval.
“In the end, there is chaos and the expansion of violence -– extrajudicial and illegal,” predicted Andrei Kolesnikov, an analyst with the Carnegie Endowment.
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Russian occupants are preparing to defend Enerhodar: barracks moved to basements - Energoatom
Censor.NET
13.01.23 https://censor.net/en/news/3393212/russian_occupants_are_preparing_to_defend_enerhodar_barracks_moved_to_basements_energoatom
Russian occupants are preparing to defend the city of Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia region, arranging barracks and ammunition depots in the basements of residential buildings.
This is stated by Censor.NЕТ with reference to рress service of “Energoatom”.
“Rashists are preparing to defend Enerhodar, and local residents are going to be used as human shields.
Russian invaders in the satellite town of Zaporizhzhia NPP are arranging barracks and ammunition depots in the basements of residential buildings. Thus, HIDING BEHIND Enerhodar residents, the Russian invaders are trying to protect their military in case of an offensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Thus, in Enerhodar, there are numerous cases when the Russian military use the basements of civilian buildings as places of permanent deployment, even equipping them with beds.
It is, for example, the basement of the building where the Department of Social Programs is located at 10 Kurchatova Street. About 50 occupants live there now.
In addition, the invaders in Enerhodar constantly bring some large boxes into the basements of residential buildings - probably with weapons or explosives. This happens in the dark, and while the “process” is going on, several occupants are watching the windows of the house to protect themselves from unwanted bystanders. Similar “night works” were noticed in several residential buildings of the fifth and seventh microdistricts.
Realizing that the Armed Forces of Ukraine WILL NOT aim at residential buildings, the racists are arranging their barracks and warehouses with weapons and ammunition in them: to protect themselves and ammunition. We also know about a large number of explosives in the building of the communication center near the city executive committee,” - the statement reads. Source: https://censor.net/en/n3393212
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