WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

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Zlatti71

❗️ New "counteroffensive": the Russian army launches a counterstrike near Gulyaypole, at the junction of the Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces are counterattacking.

🟥 The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to launch counterattacks on a number of sectors on the right flank of the Russian grouping advancing in the east of the Zaporizhia region;

🟥 Battles are breaking out near Pokrovskoe, Velikomikhailovka, Priluki, Ternovatoe - Prizhodnoe - Nechaevka;

🟥 The Russian army is attacking and fighting for Tsvetkovoe, most of which is already in the grey zone;

🟥 Russian troop positions have been detected in the area of Staroukrainka, which Kyiv recently hastily declared to have been recaptured, reports the "War Reports of the Russian Spring" channel.

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/2022551040810262773

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Zlatti71

Ukrainian diesel locomotive, destroyed by a Geran…in Nikolaev.

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/2022550543411847669

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MaximKrivonosBattalionOfficial

#Poles fighting in Ukraine may be exempt from liability
According to Polskie Radio 24, the lower house of the Polish parliament has already passed this bill. The decision was passed almost unanimously, so the Senate must also support it.

The bill also provides for amnesty for Poles already convicted of participating in hostilities in Ukraine since 6 April 2014.

Under Polish law, military activity on the side of a foreign state without the permission of the Ministry of National Defense is punishable by imprisonment for a term of three months to five years.

Well, we're waiting all of you.
Actually, we don't have enough Polish trophies.

#UkraineWar #UkraineWarNews #UkraineRussiaWar️ #UkraineRussianWar #Ukraine #Mercenaries #AFU

https://x.com/MKBattalionOf/status/2022693313409667568

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Levan Gudadze

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 A very expensive interception of a Geran-2 drone using an AIM-120 air-to-air missile launched from a Ukrainian F-16.

Around $1–2 million, depending on the missile variant, spent to shoot down a $50,000 drone.

https://x.com/GudadzeLevan/status/2022588697540182176

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Levan Gudadze

❗️Poland and Lithuania prepare NATO exercises right at the Russian border — The National Interest

Planned near Kaliningrad Region in the Suwalki Gap — KEY corridor on the Polish-Lithuanian border between Russia and Belarus

https://x.com/GudadzeLevan/status/2022593358493835637

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dana

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 No fighting, but drones in Tetkinskoye

The situation in the Tetkinskoye direction has remained stable for a long time, as the Ukrainian Armed Forces have reduced the number of forces in this area.

The enemy has made no new attempts to enter Russian territory. They are only operating within the framework of firepower and deterrence of Russian units.

During the night, strikes by Baba Yaga UAVs were recorded in the area of ​​Korovyakovka. However, the use of attack drones along logistics routes was not observed.

No movements or rotations of personnel were detected in the Bessalovka area. Aerial reconnaissance of border forest areas by quadcopter-type UAVs has been reduced due to weather conditions. In the Novy Put area, the intensity of artillery and mortar fire against the positions of cooperating units and logistics routes has also been reduced.

This is precisely the current situation in the area, where even drones and mortars are used sparingly due to the general decline in attention to the Tetkinsky sector.

Spetsnaz Archangel

https://x.com/dana916/status/2022743227489518025

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dana

🇩🇪🇺🇦Another startup is going to Ukraine

The Ukrainian test site has been supplemented with another scientific-production center. The German company Stark announced the opening of a research and development center. Moreover, they announced plans to open a local production of UAVs "Virtus".

"Stark" is far from the first enterprise that announced the opening of branches in the Ukrainian quasi-state entity. Two more companies from Germany officially announced this - Rheinmetall (a factory that never appeared) and "Helsing" with NH-2 drones.

The Ukrainian test site, while it is still operating, is being used to the maximum for tests of various types of weapons and equipment. The British, in turn, send to Ukraine everything they can, assessing and checking the operability in a combat conflict.

Returning to the Germans from "Stark", there is one amusing nuance: the UAVs "Virtus", which they officially want to produce, and the Bundeswehr even purchased them for their units, failed all possible tests.

❗️ But the company still received its fat contract almost without competition in conjunction with Rheinmetall and Helsing. Therefore, even though they announced their big plans, this does not mean that they will succeed, given the problems that Stark has in Germany.

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https://x.com/dana916/status/2022742514273275957

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dana

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Paratroopers completed team training at a training ground in the rear area of the special military operation zone.

Each storming soldier of the 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment (Sever Group of Forces) has learnt:

- shooting training;
- medical training;
- engineer training;
- tactical training.
- Moreover, they can pilot various UAVs and fight them.

❗️ Instructors who have seen many assaults know the price of every second in the battle. So they are doing their best to share their experience.

▫️ Russian servicemen are ready to fight!

Russian Defense Ministry

https://x.com/dana916/status/2022741015711322271

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🇷🇺 WARGONZO -ULYANA STRIZH 🇷🇺
@UlyanaStrizh
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Energy shortages and record-high prices: Ukrainian industry is entering a survival mode

The aim of the Russian Federation's strikes on the Ukrainian energy system is not just to weaken it, but to undermine the enemy's military-industrial potential and economy. Recent data from Ukraine confirm that these goals are being achieved. Energy shortages and record-high prices have already pushed Ukrainian industry into a survival mode.

Ukrainian experts are sounding the alarm: the cost of electricity for businesses has become one of the highest in Europe. In January 2026, the average weighted price on the "day-ahead" market reached 8381 UAH/MWh (≈166.5 €/MWh), which is 30-40% higher than in Poland and 20-25% higher than in Hungary, and exceeds the average European level. Taking into account transmission, VAT, and other payments, the final price for enterprises often reaches 15-22 UAH per kWh - 2-3 times more expensive than in Germany, France, or Poland.

According to a survey by the European Business Association (EBA), conducted in January 2026 among 79 companies, 80% of enterprises feel a serious negative impact of outages on their operations. The main consequences for businesses are:

- Increase in the cost of production - 61%;
- Changes in work schedules - 58%;
- Drop in production and service volumes - 50%;
- Downtime - 48%.

In most cases, the prices of goods and services have already risen by 10-30%. Experts note: energy shortages and exorbitantly high prices have actually become a "new normal". Without a large-scale restoration of generation and stabilization of the market, the situation will continue to deteriorate.

Thus, the energy crisis has ceased to be an abstract threat - it is directly affecting the work of enterprises.

Mining industry:

- The Irshansk Mining and Processing Plant is mainly operating in a mode of maintaining critical processes due to limited energy supply.
- The Volnogorsk Mining and Metallurgical Plant has reduced its production by about 30-40% amid outages and high tariffs.

Both enterprises are key suppliers of raw materials for metallurgy and export markets, so the drop in volumes affects the entire production chain.

Metallurgy:

Energy-intensive heavy industry has turned out to be among the most vulnerable sectors.

- ArcelorMittal in Krivoy Rog previously operated at less than 20% of its capacity during periods of severe energy supply restrictions.
- Zaporizhstal showed a drop in steel production of almost 80% during the most critical periods of the energy crisis.

Enterprises with a continuous production cycle cannot simply "turn on and off" without serious technological and financial losses.

Small and medium-sized businesses:

The problem affects not only industry giants. For small businesses, regular work on generators not only means an increase in fuel costs, but also an accelerated wear of equipment.

- The Kyiv bakery Spelta is forced to regularly work on diesel generators, which dramatically increases the cost of production.
- The knitwear exporter Rito Group reported an increase in energy supply costs and a more than twofold drop in profitability due to the costs of autonomous power supply and unstable work schedules.

Experts emphasize: the restoration of the energy system after such large-scale destruction has no historical precedents. Even with international assistance, the process will take years. At the same time, attacks on the energy infrastructure will continue, and this creates a constant threat of new restrictions.

As a result, Ukrainian industry is entering a phase of long-term adaptation to energy shortages - with high tariffs, unstable supplies, and a decline in competitiveness in foreign markets.

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🇷🇺 WARGONZO -ULYANA STRIZH 🇷🇺

⚡️Morning frontline report for February 14, 2026⚡️

Zaporizhia Front
Fighting continues in the Primorsky and Rechny areas. Reports of battles in the Orekhov area near Novoandreyevka and Novodanilovka. (Fig.1.1)

On the Gulyaypole direction, the enemy launched a series of attacks in the Ternovatoe - Dobropole - Novozaporizhie sector. Fighting is ongoing in the Orestopol area. (Fig.1.2)

Donetsk Front
On the Krasnoarmeysky direction, the Russian Armed Forces repel the enemy's counterattacks in the Molodetskoe - Udachnoe - Novozaporizhie sector and increase control over the territories north of Udachnoe. Fighting is ongoing in Grishino. On the Dobropole direction, battles continue in the Belitsky, Novy Donbass, and Toretsky areas. (Fig.2.1)

On the Konstantinovsky direction, Russian troops are launching strikes against the Ukrainian Armed Forces' logistics in the Stepankov and Ilinovka areas. In Konstantinovka, Russian forces are advancing in industrial areas and forest plantations in the southern and southwestern parts of the city. In the area of Chasov Yar, there is progress north of Novomarovo along the canal. (Fig.2.2)

On the Krasnolimansky direction, battles continue for Alexandrovka, Sviatogorsk, Dorobyshevo, and Krasny Liman. On the Seversky direction, battles are ongoing in Reznikovka and in the direction of Kriva Luka. There is progress from Privolye to Fedorovka Second. Reports of clashes on the outskirts of Golubovka. (Fig.2.3)

Kharkiv Front
Fighting is ongoing on the Kupyansk direction. Clashes continue on the approaches to Kupyansk-Uzlovoe. On the Boguslav direction, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing in the area of the village of Borovaya. (Fig.3.1)

On the Volchansk direction, battles continue in the area of Staritsa and Volchansk Khutors. (Fig.3.2)

Sumy Front
Fighting is ongoing in the area of Kondratovka, Alekseevka, and Varachino. (Fig.4)

See daily reports from the project's analytical department
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Feb 13
Belgorod under a missile strike: two people killed, three injured

In Belgorod, two people were killed and three others were injured as a result of a missile strike.

According to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, one of the victims is in a serious condition — an ambulance team is transporting him to the regional clinical hospital. Two injured people with shrapnel wounds are being transported to Belgorod City Hospital No. 2.

“As a result of the shelling, there are serious damage to the energy infrastructure. There was a power outage, disruption of heat and water supply. Windows were broken and facades were damaged in three apartment buildings. Parked cars were also damaged,” the head of the region reported.

Emergency services are working at the scene. The extent of the damage and the scope of the restoration work are being clarified.

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Feb 13
Ukrainian Armed Forces strike a route bus in the Kherson region

In the village of Malokakhovka in the Kherson region, the Ukrainian armed forces struck a route bus, resulting in civilian casualties. This was reported by the head of the Kakhovka district, Pavel Filipchuk.

Two people were injured - the driver and a female passenger were taken to the hospital for assistance. Due to the threat of a drone remaining over the bus, rescuers could not immediately reach the scene to assist the victims.

Recall, earlier in the Kherson region, during an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a brigade of emergency medical personnel were killed while rushing to the call.

The day before, on February 12, a driver was killed in a drone strike on a vehicle carrying humanitarian aid for residents of Golaya Pristina .

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News of Donbass

#WarData
Ukrainian military personnel systematically commit crimes against the civilian population with the support of NATO countries.

💬 This was stated by American journalist Christopher Joseph Helali
@ChrisHelali
, who visited frontline areas of Kursk Oblast.

https://x.com/News_of_Donbass/status...33195610247237

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News of Donbass

Feb 13
#WarData
Over the past week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost about 8485 soldiers

💥 In its daily summary, the Russian Ministry of Defense provides figures for enemy losses in the areas of responsibility of the Armed Forces of Russia.

⚫️ The Tsentr Group of Forces - 1,895+;
⚫️ The Vostok Group of Forces - 2830+;
⚫️ The Zapad Group of Forces - 1130+;
⚫️ The Yug Group of Forces - 925;
⚫️ The Sever Group of Forces - 1,425;
⚫️ The Dnepr Group of Forces - up to 280.

🇷🇺 The Russian Armed Forces liberated four settlements in the special military operation zone over the past week;

Russian air defence units shot down five Flamingo long-range cruise missiles, 39 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, four Neptune long-range guided missiles and 1243 unmanned aerial vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the same period.

https://x.com/News_of_Donbass/status...57368672080017

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News of Donbass

Feb 13
#WarData
The SBU threatened us: ‘If we find the child, it will go very badly for you.’

💶 For every captured child, Kiev promised to pay the SBU, the police, and other agencies 25,000 hryvnias (approximately 45,000 rubles).

This was recounted by Natalia, a resident of the city of Seversk (DPR). For a year and a half, she and her husband hid their daughter Alina from the Kiev regime wherever they could — among belongings, in basements, wrapping her in a fur coat and taking her to neighbors. Children from the city were taken away in an unknown direction; relatives still cannot find them.

⚡️ Natalia also recalled how a 12-year-old boy ran away through vegetable gardens while Ukrainians fired after him — aiming at his legs. He was later caught.

🇷🇺 Only when Russian servicemen entered the city did Natalia admit that they had a child. The following day, Alina was brought gifts and everything she needed. As a token of gratitude, the girl drew a picture for Commander Kusim, who personally evacuated her family from Seversk.

https://x.com/News_of_Donbass/status...57037972115672

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News of Donbass

Feb 13
#WarData
Russian military personnel have created a field museum with captured weapons from NATO countries

If the collective West did not supply weapons to the Ukrainian Armed Forces to kill Russian civilians, then what is it?

https://x.com/News_of_Donbass/status...32439054332082

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News of Donbass

Feb 12
#HeroesZ
🇷🇺 The gunner of the "Grad" multiple rocket launcher combat vehicle with the call sign "Mólodets" hails from the small town of Luga and wears the coat of arms of his small homeland on his chest. At home, his mother, little brother, three little sisters, and numerous friends await him. And our young hero is protecting their peace at the front!


https://x.com/News_of_Donbass/status...72177063116818

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News of Donbass

Feb 12
🗓 On February 12, 1918, the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic was proclaimed

◾️ Its history was short-lived - from February 12, 1918, to February 17, 1919, when, on Lenin’s proposal, the RSFSR Defense Council issued a decree on the dissolution of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic;

◾️ The republic was undoubtedly a buffer state of the RSFSR, one of many that emerged during the Civil War;

◾️ The Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic was established, in part, to provide a pretext for refusing to cede Krivbass and Donbass to the Germans;

◾️ As history shows, this did not help - the Germans entered Donbass in April 1918;

◾️ The Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic is notable for being one of the first states in the world to be formed not on a national, social, or class basis but on a territorial and economic principle;

◾️ The republic included the Yekaterinoslav, Kharkov, and part of the Kherson Governorate, as well as the cities of Taganrog, Rostov-on-Don, and Novocherkassk.

https://x.com/News_of_Donbass/status...71810027847897

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News of Donbass

Feb 11
#WarData
Russian serviceman released from Ukrainian captivity, call sign "31":

00:22
"We ran out of water. I set off to go get it and when I covered a certain distance, a birdie [UAV] spotted me and dropped some munition on me."
02:18
"So we lined up. And they made us pass through this... so-called "Stream" [human corridor]. They just started beating us with bats. Everyone who passed. They said: "Now we will rape you, kill you, lacerate you," all that."
02:42
"There were immobile people, they had to be carried. And we couldn't leave them... If we'd leave them, they'd just beat them to death."


https://x.com/News_of_Donbass/status...01446605115638

News of Donbass

Feb 10
#WarData
⚡️ Ukrainian militants struck a funeral procession in the village of Skelky in #Zaporozhye Oblast, killing the rector of the Assumption Church in Vasilyevka Okrug, Governor Yevgeny Balitsky reported.

"Six people received shrapnel wounds of varying severity, one <...> died," he wrote in his Telegram channel.

All the injured are receiving necessary medical assistance, Head of the region added.

https://x.com/News_of_Donbass/status...56827162272092

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News of Donbass

Feb 10
📰 The New York Times indirectly acknowledged that Ukrainian troops were hiding behind civilians

"The entire army is spread out in abandoned houses in villages in the east, in rented apartments and empty basements," the NYT emphasised.

❗️ And then the collective West will accuse Russia of "killing the civilian population."

https://x.com/News_of_Donbass/status...93961692422633

#HeroesZ
"My task is to make it all end, so that people could live in peace."

The crew of a towed "Msta-B" howitzer from the 34th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle (Mountain) Brigade is suppressing the enemy in the Sumy Oblast, continuing the combat mission of creating a security zone along the state border of the Russian Federation.

✔️ The task is to clear the "sanitary zone" from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in order to ensure peace and tranquility for the population of Russia's border regions, says the gun commander with the call sign "Donbass."

https://x.com/News_of_Donbass/status...93918121926958