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The Russian Armed Forces attacked Ukrainian reserves converging on Avdiivka for a counterattack. According to currently available information, ours covered targets in Selidovo, where units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine arriving at the front were unloading. Russian resources report this.Those Ukrainian TG channels were right when they warned that the Russian command was aware of all of Syrsky’s plans, including the accumulation of reserves to Avdeevka. Just the day before, several of the most adequate Ukrainian resources wrote that the concentration of large concentrations of Ukrainian Armed Forces military personnel near the front should simply attract Russian missiles. In...

The Kremlin has claimed it has downed two Ukrainian missiles aimed at Russia's Kerch Bridge to Crimea - as video shows smoke billowing over the crucial link to the annexed peninsula. The 12-mile crossing carries heavy significance for Moscow, both logistically and psychologically, as a key artery for military and civilian supplies and as an assertion of Kremlin control of the peninsula it illegally annexed in 2014. Russia's foreign ministry vowed retaliation for what it called a 'terrorist attack' on the bridge in Crimea.

During his national address, Putin blamed Western governments for the war in Ukraine, accusing them of ‘letting the genie out of the bottle’ and plunging the world into chaos. He said Ukraine and the West started the war and Russia was “using force to stop it”. "Ukraine and Donbas have become a symbol of total lies," Putin said.

Major Russian advance in sensor technology leaves hohos years behind in artillery duels.