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Update from Ukraine | Ukrainian Forces will leave Soledar | Ruzzian propaganda celebrates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quBRzASo-Ug
Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Attacks on Kremina and Solidar | Ruzzia lies about Ukrainian losses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikFKclarb1U
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SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 320 – https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-320-summary/
[Website updates https://militaryland.net/news/website-recap-december-2022/]
Update from Ukraine | Ukrainian Forces will leave Soledar | Ruzzian propaganda celebrates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quBRzASo-Ug
Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Attacks on Kremina and Solidar | Ruzzia lies about Ukrainian losses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikFKclarb1U
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SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 320 –
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-320-summary/
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1- Downtown Helsinki is lit in blue and yellow and decorated with so many Ukrainian flags. Thank you Finland for your solidarity with Ukraine!
https://fb.watch/hXANyNNckq/
2- ‘Russian prisons take it to a whole other level’: Daughter of imprisoned Putin opponent | Watch (msn.com)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-prisons-take-it-to-a-whole-other-level-daughter-of-imprisoned-putin-opponent/vi-AA166vvH?cvid=d82d2e656b664130e5b8c0253463b6f3&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover
50 of our soldiers have returned home. These are guys from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, TRO, NSU, DPSU, Navy, SSO.
33 officers and 17 private and sergeants.
Returned the defenders who were captured at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, as well as the defenders of Mariupol, fighters from the Donetsk direction, from under Bakhmuta, from kií пилиv ідini, chernihiv, kherson пряini and other regions where the fights were held.
Glory to Ukraine and its heroes!
https://www.facebook.com/100004090549862/videos/pcb.3067190796760575/556752409679721
1- VIDEO LINK https://www.facebook.com/100004090549862/videos/1201470173834689/
2- VIDEO https://www.facebook.com/100004090549862/videos/556752409679721/
3- VIDEO https://www.facebook.com/100004090549862/videos/479959854296568/
1- Commander of the Eastern Grouping of Troops Colonel General Alexander Sirsky discussed with the commanders of units protecting Bakhmut and Soledar the current situation on the forefront
https://censor.net/ua/photo_news/3392047/syrskyyi_obgovoryv_sytuatsiyu_na_peredoviyi_iz_komandyramy_pidrozdiliv_yaki_zahyschayut_bahmut_ta_soledar
send more money says fag zelensky
This cake didn’t bake too well...
“Update from Ukraine | Ukraine was able to drive Ruzzians away from Soledar”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4121676/posts
Russian Federation is transferring military equipment removed from long-term storage to Belarus - General Staff Source: https://censor.net/en/n3392040
Russian attacks across 9 Ukrainian oblasts kill 2, injure 12 over past 24 hours
https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/russian-attacks-across-9-ukrainian-oblasts-kill-2-injure-12-over-past-24-hours
Russia bombs Ukrainian village market killing two women and injuring seven including 10-year-old girl as rescuers pull victims from rubble
Harrowing footage emerged following the strike on Shevchenkove near Kharkiv
Rescuers were seen trying to pull bodies from the rubble of a market square
It comes as the Kremlin warned deliveries of Western weapons to Ukraine would only ‘deepen the suffering of the Ukrainian people’
By David Averre For Mailonline
Updated: 07:15 EST, 9 January 2023
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11614379/Russia-bombs-Ukrainian-village-market-killing-two-women-injuring-seven-including-10-year-old.html?ito=push-notification&ci=qhZ42YCNhf&cri=z1G2_MhWJ-&si=qUE_cMbMuf0Y&xi=90d65f60-88f8-4565-8362-1a61ff1c99fe&ai=11614379
Wagner Group Chief Using War to Exploit Natural Resources by Bakhmut—ISW
By Brendan Cole On 1/9/23 at 4:21 AM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-bakhmut-isw-resources-prigozhin-1772153?spot_im_redirect_source=pitc
ДСНС України [State Emergency Service of Ukraine]
“Life in a suitcase” - this expression has become common for thousands of Ukrainians. Packing essentials, which were only what they could fit in their suitcases, people were forced to leave their homes and move to safer regions.
#Cherkasy region is one of the regions that continues to actively accept citizens from areas where active combat is taking place.
Another train with 40 citizens from Donetsk region arrived to the region today. Distressed and tired people with children and pets were met by rescuers and psychologists of the dsns. Helped carry heavy things, psychologically supported and calmed, worked with children.
VIDEO https://fb.watch/hYydP93CRv/
Let's cut The Running Man a break here. 
Did you know that the dyslexic spelling of Lair is "Liar"? ;)
Chechen battalion decimating Russians in Bakhmut | Military Mind
TVP World [TVP is a Polish public broadcast service]
Jan 9, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WowVgUlp0Lc
“Chechens fighting on Ukrainian soil – those who follow the example of Dzhokhar Dudayev – a man who led Chechnya toward freedom before his efforts were thwarted by Russia. Today, this spirit of independence lives on in the Chechen soldiers fighting alongside Ukrainians against Putin’s invasion.”
Huge pipeline explodes in Russian-occupied Luhansk caused by ‘sabotage’
The Sun
Jan 9, 2023 2:44 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WreHRquqUdw
“A HUGE gas explosion in Russian-occupied Ukraine was caused by “sabotage”, according to pro-Putin officials.
The blast was on a pipeline in Lutuhyne, population 17,500, in the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic.
Some 13,300 customers were left without gas due to the explosion. Footage showed the inferno on the damaged gas supply pipeline.
The annexed region’s Ministry of Emergency Situations said an explosion had caused the incident.”
Horror moment plane’s door OPENS mid air leaving passengers terrified on Russian flight
The Sun
Jan 9, 2023 4:48 p.m. EST
This is the shocking moment a plane door sprang open mid-air as panicked passengers feared they would be “blown out”.
“The pilot of the Russian flight was forced to make an emergency landing in icy -41C conditions as luggage was sucked out of the Antonov AN-26.
Hats belonging to the 25 passengers flew off heads and vanished into the bone-chilling air after the rear door popped open soon after takeoff in one of the world’s coldest regions.
Footage shows the door wide open on the IrAero Antonov aircraft, which had taken off from Magan in the Siberian region Yakutia bound for Magadan on Russia’s Pacific coast.
The man filming the nightmare incident is heard swearing in shock at the open door behind him.
Another video from 112 news outlet showed the terrified passengers in the howling ice-cold wind with the rear door open.”
09 Jan: Russians MAKE A VERY COSTLY MOVE | War in Ukraine Explained
Reporting from Ukraine
Jan 9, 2023 6:54 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTOikTNbvc
Fierce fighting in Ukraine’s Soledar leaves battlefield strewn with corpses, Zelenskiy says
January 9, 2023 10:00 p.m. EST PM EST
ARTICLE
Fierce fighting in Ukraine’s Soledar leaves battlefield strewn with corpses
By Pavel Polityuk and Vladyslav Smilianets
-Zelenskiy says no walls left standing in Soledar
-Wagner Group sending waves of fighters, Ukraine says
-Fight for cavernous salt mining tunnels beneath town
KYIV/SIVERSK, Ukraine, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Russia has stepped up a powerful assault on Soledar in eastern Ukraine, officials in Kyiv said, forcing Ukrainian troops to repel waves of attacks led by the Wagner contract militia around the salt mining town and nearby fronts.
Soledar, in the industrial Donbas region, lies a few miles from Bakhmut, where troops from both sides have been taking heavy losses in some of the most intense trench warfare since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly 11 months ago.
Ukrainian forces repelled an earlier attempt to take the town but a large number of Wagner Group units quickly returned, deploying new tactics and more soldiers under heavy artillery cover, Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said on Monday on the Telegram messaging app.
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“The enemy literally step over the corpses of their own soldiers, using massed artillery, MLRS systems and mortars,” Malyar said.
Russia’s defence ministry did not mention either Soledar or Bakhmut in a regular media briefing on Monday, a day after facing criticism for an apparently false claim of a missile strike on a temporary Ukrainian barracks.
Wagner was founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Drawing some recruits from Russia’s prisons and known for uncompromising violence, it is active in conflicts in Africa and has taken a prominent role in Russia’s war effort in Ukraine.
Prigozhin has been trying to capture Bakhmut and Soledar for months at the cost of many lives on both sides. He said on Saturday its significance lay in a network of cavernous mining tunnels below the ground, which can hold big groups of people as well as tanks and other war machines.
Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov said fighting in Bahkmut and Soledar is “the most intense on the entire frontline”, with little advancement by either side in the freezing conditions.
“So many (pro-Russian fighters) remain on the battlefield ... either dead or wounded,” Oleh Zhdanov said on YouTube.
“They attack our positions in waves, but the wounded as a rule die where they lie, either from exposure as it is very cold or from blood loss. No one is coming to help them or to collect the dead from the battlefield.”
NO BUILDINGS INTACT
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in nightly video remarks on Monday that Bakhmut and Soledar were holding on despite widespread destruction.
He cited new and fiercer attacks in Soledar, where he said no walls have been left standing and the land is covered with Russian corpses.
“Thanks to the resilience of our soldiers in Soledar, we have won for Ukraine additional time and additional strength,” Zelenskiy said.
But Ukrainian officials, led by the commander in chief General Valery Zaluzhniy, have warned that Russia is preparing fresh troops for a new, major offensive on Ukraine, possibly on the capital Kyiv.
Zelenskiy also appears to be banking on securing more, sophisticated weapons from Ukraine’s Western partners to beat off attacks and eventually expel Russian troops.
On Monday, he pressed on with diplomatic efforts, speaking to Petr Fiala, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, current chair of the 27-member European Union.
“I am certain that our soldiers at the front will get these weapons and equipment. Very soon,” he said.
France, Germany and the United States all pledged last week to send armoured fighting vehicles, fulfilling a long-standing Ukrainian request. Britain is considering supplying Ukraine with tanks for the first time, Sky News reported.
Military analysts say the strategic military benefit for Russia of capturing Bakhmut and Soledar would be limited.
Taras Berezovets, a Ukrainian journalist, political commentator and officer in the Ukrainian army, said capturing Soledar made little sense, except as a personal victory for Prigozhin, however it would be easier to take than Bakhmut.
“It’s his personal war,” Berezovets said on YouTube.
A U.S. official has said Prigozhin is eyeing the salt and gypsum from the mines, believed to extend over 100 miles underground and contain auditorium-scale caverns.
WAVES OF ATTACK
Berezovets said Ukrainian troops fighting in Bakhmut and Soledar say attacks come in WAVES OF SMALL GROUPS, no more than 15, with the first wave usually wiped out. The pro-Russian forces retrench and leave white ribbons for the next wave to follow.
“The complexity of fighting in cities like Bakhmut and Soledar is that it is hard to determine who is with you and who is the enemy,” he said.
In an evacuee centre in nearby Kramatorsk, Olha, 60, said she had fled Soledar after moving from apartment to apartment as each was destroyed in tank battles.
“There isn’t one house left intact. Apartments were burning, breaking in half,” said Olha, who gave only her first name.
Russia launches criminal probes on prominent Kremlin critics
Russian authorities on Monday announced parallel criminal probes against a famous actor critical of the war in Ukraine and a philanthropist who supports the Russian opposition, the latest in a months-long, sweeping crackdown on dissent.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement that its chief Alexander Bastrykin ordered the launch of a criminal case against Russian film and theater actor Artur Smolyaninov, who left the country after Moscow’s forces invaded Ukraine and repeatedly spoke out against the war.
According to the statement, Smolyaninov “made a series of statements directed against Russia in an interview to a Western media outlet.” The Investigative Committee didn’t clarify which of Smolyaninov’s actions constituted a criminal offense and what charges it would bring against him.
Smolyaninov’s most recent interview last week sparked outrage among Kremlin supporters. The actor told the Novaya Gazeta Europe that if he had to fight in the war, he would fight “on the side of Ukraine.” “For me, it is on the side of my brothers who were attacked by my other brothers,” Smolyaninov said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday welcomed a probe against Smolyaninov, noting that it is “important that our relevant (law enforcement) bodies think about these remarks.”
The probe against Smolyaninov comes amid increasingly harsh rhetoric about Russians who left the country because of the war. Lawmakers have suggested seizing the property of those who moved abroad, or increasing taxes for those continue to work remotely for Russian companies. Others have simply condemned them as “traitors.”
Separately, Russia’s Interior Ministry placed prominent philanthropist Boris Zimin on an international most wanted list on fraud charges, officials said Monday. Zimin has funded several Russian independent media outlets as well as projects of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Zimin, who reportedly left Russia in 2015, was placed on Russia’s register of people considered as “foreign agents” in September.
Navalny, the Kremlin’s fiercest foe, said that it was Zimin who paid 79,000 euros for his medical evacuation to Berlin in August 2020, when the politician was poisoned with a nerve agent and lay in a coma in the Siberian city of Omsk.
Russian state media and shills will cheer like its the end of the war. Spending ten months to take 16 square miles and 0.00689% of Ukraine is really important to them.
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