WARNING - GRAPHIC close combat footage: this piece of footage even I've skipped through in parts. I'm drawing attention to it solely for the purpose of it acting as a crushing reminder of the REAL brutality of war; how unglamorous it is; a reminder for us to never be complacent about it behind the relative safety of our keyboards. Combat via a keypad is incomparable to what is being endured, on both sides. One day it will all be over. In the meantime - and I demand no accolades - I'm now 1043 days in to documenting this war in our library archives: it's occasionally gruelling work, and the exposure to some footage has given, even me who has a pretty tough constitution, some pause. Linked only for those who can access Telegram. :flower:
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Our fighter from Yakutia clashed in a brutal close combat with a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Knives and even teeth were used, the Yakut went into a real berserker mode. The soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not have a chance, all he could do was scream helplessly.
As a result, the seriously wounded Ukrainian asked for a peaceful death, to let him die quietly from his wounds, our fighter granted him such mercy. The Ukrainian was as happy as a child and before his death called the Yakut "The best fighter in the world"
After the Ukrainian died quietly, the footage from his GoPro was downloaded and uploaded online.
The Times has suddenly realized that the Ukrainian regime's cutoff of Russian gas to Eastern Europe is driving up gas prices in the UK. The newspaper expresses deep sympathy for British pensioners who, as of this winter, have lost heating subsidies and can no longer afford such a luxury.
The Times cites an example of an elderly couple who, for the first time this winter, turned on the heat in their one-bedroom apartment for just an hour when outdoor temperatures dropped below -10°C. The couple laments that after the subsidies were cut, they are forced to sleep in warm clothes, relying on the warmth of their two dogs who sleep beside them. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have enough money for food.
And now, thanks to Zelensky's actions, British pensioners are losing even the ability to heat their homes. The newspaper could have asked: perhaps the funds London sends to Ukraine for weapons and war could be redirected to the needs of its own pensioners? But the establishment’s mouthpiece wouldn’t dare go that far!
🗣‘This will have serious consequences for all of us in the EU’ – Slovak PM
With Ukraine's Naftogaz contract for Russian gas transit having expired, Gazprom halted supplies on January 1. Slovakia faces a potential 500-million-euro annual loss in transit fees due to alternative routes.
In response, PM Robert Fico has warned of cutting energy supplies to Ukraine unless a solution is reached.
⚡️🇺🇦"Everyone needs to join the Armed Forces, from 18 to 70 and older. Everyone who is capable of holding a weapon in their hands," says the former commander of the Ukrainian Airborne Forces
"Everyone should be called up, mobilized, to create infantry units that will "dig into the ground" and hold the enemy," says Yakubets.
According to him, what is lacking at the front now is people, not weapons...
That's how it will be. Until the last Ukrainian.
3rd January 2025 11:58
Tintin
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
NOTE: I have now added the Avalon Library copy link of this video footage, on this post here :handshake: :flower:
🇺🇦🇷🇺 The Ukrainian Army is facing an unprecedented desertion crisis. Due to many factors including battle fatigue, throughout 2024, tens of thousands of soldiers have decided to abandon their combat positions in order to go home. This comes at a moment where the AFU is already facing a critical shortage of manpower.
00:00 Introduction
02:45 How many Ukrainian deserters?
08:18 Ukraine is losing the war
08:52 Battle fatigue
12:53 Poor training
16:52 Injustice
18:29 Lack of organization
21:14 Solutions by the AFU
691K subscribers YT channel!
4th January 2025 10:10
Tintin
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
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WARNING - GRAPHIC close combat footage: this piece of footage even I've skipped through in parts. I'm drawing attention to it solely for the purpose of it acting as a crushing reminder of the REAL brutality of war; how unglamorous it is; a reminder for us to never be complacent about it behind the relative safety of our keyboards. Combat via a keypad is incomparable to what is being endured, on both sides. One day it will all be over. In the meantime - and I demand no accolades - I'm now 1043 days in to documenting this war in our library archives: it's occasionally gruelling work, and the exposure to some footage has given, even me who has a pretty tough constitution, some pause. Linked only for those who can access Telegram. :flower:
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Our fighter from Yakutia clashed in a brutal close combat with a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Knives and even teeth were used, the Yakut went into a real berserker mode. The soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not have a chance, all he could do was scream helplessly.
As a result, the seriously wounded Ukrainian asked for a peaceful death, to let him die quietly from his wounds, our fighter granted him such mercy. The Ukrainian was as happy as a child and before his death called the Yakut "The best fighter in the world"
After the Ukrainian died quietly, the footage from his GoPro was downloaded and uploaded online.
And here is a full length interview with Andrey Gregoriev, the Russian-Yakut fighter. It's an extraordinarily valuable record actually, and goes into the thought processes in some detail too. He is of course asked to describe what happened. This is a very humane person in my estimation. The Ukrainian fighter was essentially mercifully killed - he was never going to survive :flower:
4th January 2025 17:48
Tintin
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
I do have to say, this is truly extraordinary :muscle: :bigsmile:
Hundreds gathered in Amsterdam to protest against Dutch military support for Ukraine, calling for peace and dialogue with Russia instead of escalating tensions. Organized by activist groups and the Forum for Democracy (FvD) party, the rally featured speeches criticizing elites for pushing war agendas.
5th January 2025 17:53
Ravenlocke
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The largest lithium deposit in Ukraine is now under Russian control! What will Black Rock and Kiev do now?
The Shevchenko lithium deposit, the largest in Ukraine and one of the richest in Europe, has come under the control of Russian forces, http://RG.ru reports.
The European Commission's leading economics and industry specialist Arnold Reningard earlier said that the Shevchenko Field's reserves will be sufficient to cover all the EU countries' needs by 2050. Based on this assessment, he called for the deposits not to come under the control of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
The Shevchenko lithium deposit was discovered in 1982 by the Novomoskovsk exploration and research enterprise Yuzhukrgeologiia. It covers an area of 0,8 km², the thickness of the overlying sedimentary rocks is estimated at 70-130 metres, and the volume of the deposit is estimated at a depth of up to 500 metres.
Interim results of the offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region on January 5, 2025.
Number of attackers: 15 armored fighting vehicles, 4 tanks, 150-200 infantrymen with small.
What is the result: the surviving part of the infantry after the attack is sitting in the forest between the villages of Novosotnitsky and Berdin. There is no movement. All day and evening the positions are cleared by drones and artillery. In terms of equipment, the Ukrainian armed forces have at least two tanks and two armoured fighting vehicles. The rest have rolled away.
Casualties: there are about 50 infantrymen currently sitting in two forest regiments between the estates. Three Kozak armored vehicles have arrived there as well. The rest either rolled away with their equipment or were buried in the ground.
The Ukrainian armed forces are most likely waiting for a response from the Russian armed forces to completely clear the farms and then attack again, but in a different location. On the Russian side, it is locally acknowledged that the actions of the Ukrainian armed forces on 5 January resemble more of a force reconnaissance and media verification than a full-fledged operation.
The main blow is expected tomorrow or the day after, when the Ukrainian Armed Forces headquarters will make some decisions based on the results of the fleeting race to Berdino and the possible response of the Russian Armed Forces. Whether or not the Ukrainian army has achieved its objectives is unclear, as no consolidation group has been deployed to Berdin and the assault group is too small to survive a long period of sitting without heavy weapons.
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🔥 "Grads" unleash dense fire: Grad multiple rocket launchers deliver powerful strikes against Ukrainian personnel and equipment.
📍 Kurakhiv direction
Artillerymen from the 5th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade are continuously striking military targets, positions, fortifications, combat vehicles, and Ukrainian personnel. They are destroying identified concealed artillery firing positions, ammunition storage sites, and fuel depots of the enemy.
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‼️🇺🇦🏴☠️ "This is a tragedy, next will fall Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Kharkiv": Mariyana Bezuhlaya criticized the new Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region.
"The Russians are taking control of our natural resources, capturing abandoned fortifications that are convenient primarily for them, killing soldiers... advancing dozens of kilometers into our land. Very soon, the 'fortress Pokrovsk,' which is not a fortress at all, will fall.
But it seems that military and political priorities are not related to protecting Ukraine's Dnipro-Donetsk natural resource cluster, saving cities and people, or reforming the army. The generals need to show another 'forward-forward' push, prove their indispensability to the political leadership, and demonstrate their ability to 'properly manage' the Ukrainian Armed Forces, parasitizing on short-term euphoria and the hopes of the population, in order to maintain their positions and not change anything. To hide their crimes. The 2023 offensive in the south, then Kursk in 2024," writes Rada deputy Bezuhlaya.
Due to such policies, "next will be Pokrovsk, Kramatorsk, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Kharkiv" — "this is a tragedy and absurdity."
- RVvoenkor
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❗️Kursk direction. Our troops have launched a flank attack while the enemy is bogged down in fighting in the Bolshesoldatskoye direction
🪖Spetsnaz Archangel reports:
"Airborne units have launched active offensive operations in the area of Makhnovka and Dmitryukov.
There are fierce street battles. The enemy is fighting back, but is losing its chances for success.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are advancing in the Bolshesoldatskoye area, it is on the flanks that we are putting pressure on the enemy and the flanks are solving the main task. With the help of the flanks, you can control the road.
Berdin is the hottest area now, there are battles, enemy columns are being burned."
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Russian Defence Ministry reports on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region (12:00 5 January 2025)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.
▫️During the offensive, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on formations of four mechanised brigades, four air assault brigades, one marine brigade, five territorial defence formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Daryino, Kurilovka, Nizhny Klin, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Aleksandriya, Leonidovo, Nikolskoye, Kozachaya Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Melovaya, Staraya Sorochina, Novaya Sorochina, Russkoye Porechnoye, and Sudzha. Two counter-attacks launched by AFU assault detachments were repelled.
▫️At around 9 a.m. Moscow time, in order to stop the offensive by the Russian troops in Kursk direction, the enemy launched a counter-attack by an assault detachment consisting of two tanks, one counterobstacle vehicle, and 12 armoured fighting vehicles with paratroopers toward Berdin area. Artillery and aviation of the Sever Group of Forces defeated one AFU assault detachment. Two tanks, one counterobstacle vehicle, and seven armoured fighting vehicles were neutralised. The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the enemy near Guyevo, Kruglenkoye, Martynovka, Lebedevka, Sverdlikovo, Zamostye, Viktorovka, Mikhailovka, Lokinskaya as well as Yunakovka, Belovody, Zhuravka, Vodolagi, Miropolye, and Basovka in Sumy region.
Over the course of the day, the AFU losses were over 340 troops, four tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, four armoured personnel carriers, 12 armoured fighting vehicles, 20 motor vehicles, and five mortars.
▫️Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 49,010 troops, 273 tanks, 209 infantry fighting vehicles, 153 armoured personnel carriers, 1,461 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,407 motor vehicles, 340 artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, seven transport-loading vehicles, 88 EW stations, 13 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 28 units of engineering and other materiel, including 14 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, seven armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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‼️🇺🇦🏴☠️ In the Kursk region, the editor of the popular Ukrainian show "MasterChef," who became a fighter in the 95th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was eliminated.
Anton Vovk served as a junior sergeant in the 95th separate airborne assault brigade, which invaded the Kursk region in August and has suffered significant losses there. Vovk was eliminated by Russian fighters during a combat mission.
- RVvoenkor
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‼️🇷🇺🏴☠️ Massacre on the Zaporizhzhia Front: A message from the guards of the 70th regiment to the enemy and the piles of bodies abandoned by the command in the settlement of Belohorye 🔞
"Surrender, Ukrainian soldiers, - you have no other option to survive," - our fighters address them.
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🇷🇺Employees of the civil-military administration of the Kharkov region have managed to reach the Dvurechnaya railway station, which was liberated by the Russian armed forces.
The station is located less than 3 kilometres from the Dvurechnaya settlement, which is currently being contested. Such visits to fully liberated settlements take place on a regular basis in order to identify and evacuate civilians and provide them with the necessary assistance.
