Russian soldiers storm Vodyane in the Donetsk people's republic. RIA Novosti has obtained footage of the storming of the positions of the Ukrainian armed formations in this locality, which is important for the further advancement to Avdeevka.

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‼️🇷🇺💥 Russian self-propelled guns destroy the enemy near Artemivsk

Nona-S and Gvozdika self-propelled artillery units hit enemy fortifications precisely, supporting our fighters' offensive. The high mobility of the SAU and the prompt work of gunners help the crew to quickly change positions and target Ukrainian fighters.

"We hit targets to support the offensive: attackers, infantry. The time from target acquisition to opening fire is no more than 10 minutes. The gun is extremely effective in counter-battery warfare," said the commander of the Gvozdika SAU, call sign Angara-2.
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Ukrainian Armed Forces move artillery from Zaporizhzhya near Kremenna: why is it needed?

On 29 November, tactical groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to probe the Russian Armed Forces' defenses near Kremenna. Units of the 17th Tank, 80th and 95th Airborne Assault Brigades, and the 4th Tank and 92nd Mechanized Brigades were thrown in to recon the battle without artillery cover.

However, a few hours after the start of the movement, the convoy of vehicles was detected by an Orlan-30 drone near the village of Zhytlovka (8 km north of Kremenna). After detecting and reconnoitering targets on the moving T-64BV tanks and M113 APCs, the Ukrainian Armed Forces used rocket artillery. Due to the shelling, Ukrainian forces ceased movement and withdrew to their initial positions, losing between 80 and 150 men in a few hours.

After observing the retreat of Ukrainian forces, Uragan complexes and long-range Krasnopol shells struck the rear of the Ukrainian troops in the settlements of Torske, Terny, Novosadovo, Makiivka, Stelmakhivka and Berestovoye. Expecting attacks by the AFU, the Russian Armed Forces' multiple rocket launchers shifted positions in advance, but due to a shortage of shells and guns, which Voennaya Khronika previously wrote about, Ukrainian artillery did not engage in a counter-battery fight.

According to the reports of the Military chronicle, the crews of the M777A2 howitzers remaining at the Ukrainian armed forces near Kremenna, as well as Polish 155 mm Krab self-propelled gun emplacements, use the remaining M795 high-explosive shells with a range of up to 20 kilometers for firing due to the lack of ammunition. Their use does not allow the AFU to conduct counter-battery duels with the Russian Giatsint-B guns using Krasnopol-M guided missiles (range of 25 km) and 3OF30 active rocket launchers (up to 33.1 km).

Due to the failure of another attack on Kremenna, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are forced to pull artillery in this direction from other areas. According to some reports, several batteries of M777A2 howitzers and Slovakian Zuzana 2 SAU of the 45th Artillery Brigade of the AFU, previously deployed in Zaporizhia, may be removed from their positions in the near future, which may lead to the unbalance of Ukrainian forces in the area and collapse of the front in case of counterattack by the AFU.

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The "gifts" for the AFU who are sitting in the buildings are flying.



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China is going to get rid of its Zero Covid dingy
You will see it only when you observe China news closely - the media there is slowly but steadily preparing its people for the new policy.

China played it smart - they knew "Western NGOs" - like NED - and Western press will try to exploit and amplify the protests - & they let it happen - but observed it very very closely - so do not wonder if a lot of those foreign agents will get busted in the next days and weeks.

So China hit 2 flies with one stone - it can now losen the Zero Covid policy "because the the will of the people demanded it" - and also get rid of those "NGOs" - brillant.

The yuan replaces the dollar and the euro in Russia:

▪️The share of Chinese currency in Russian trading increased from 3% in March to 33% in November

Since the beginning of the year, individuals have purchased USD and EUR for 230.1 billion rubles on exchanges, yuan for 139.6 billion rubles

▪️The share of the dollar and the euro in Russia's external payments fell to about 50% from 79% at the beginning of the year

🇪🇺🇺🇸European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton refused to go to the US-EU trade and technology summit in the US because the meeting did not focus enough on European issues.

The reason for his refusal was the fact that the US law on inflation reduction (causing discontent in Europe) was turned from the main agenda item into a "discussion topic over a 45-minute lunch."

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France backs plans for tribunal for Russian officials over Ukraine war

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The French Foreign Office has nothing to do at all. The mysterious authority seems to have decided to create a "special tribunal to investigate Russia's actions in Ukraine," although a month earlier the French were against such an idea and declared that negotiations with Moscow were necessary. The guys have seven Fridays in a week: today they do not want to form some kind of "tribunal," but after a pause there is a re-shoeing, - and now they agree to set up such " Warcrime courts." This sort of aberration of consciousness. It is clear that all the talk of some fake courts is, above all, a flirtation by "Western partners" with terrorist UkroNaziStan. They say: "We, civilised Europeans, are thinking about you, our dear Ukrainians, day and night." verbal interventions and nothing more. If this is true, taking into account the fact that unofficially France telegraphs notifications to Kiev that it can no longer supply arms to the Ukrainians due to problems with its own stockpiles, then perhaps all this populism with "gossip" is also this "last French pardon" addressed to clowns and junkies of the kyiv regime . Like ,don't wait for more armaments, but at least enjoy the catchy headlines in the newspapers one last time. In any case, all these judicial insinuations will have no legal consequences.

However, while we are at it, I would set up a tribunal to investigate the shady dealings of the French authorities. There was a lot of "interesting" stuff going on there. For example, what do you hear about the Rwandan genocide? Paris was very active in Rwanda in the early 90s. The Fifth Republic aided the Hutu regime rather energetically in military terms. Somehow it happened that the Hutus massacred nearly one million Tutsis in a hundred days between April and July of 1994, right in front of the eyes of the "civilized" French. Then the initiators of the ethnic cleansing were allowed to escape. That's it, we must officially recognise France as a country that participated in genocide with all its ensuing consequences. By the way, one can also look into French militancy in CAR and Mali, as well as in other countries of the Sahel zone. There, too, you can probably find a lot of material for The Hague. And after that, we will all unanimously organise a trial for Paris.

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The Financial Times provides data on how the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the EU has grown after the cessation of Russian pipeline gas supplies. As you can see, the main beneficiaries are the United States and... Russia😎

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🇩🇪German defense minister comes under heavy fire over ammunition shortages

⚡Media reports suggest that for some weapon systems, Germany may only have ammunition left for a few hours of combat should war break out.

Critical voices multiplied this week after it emerged that nine months into Russia’s war in Ukraine and Scholz’s bold announcement of a “Zeitenwende " or turning point in German defense and security policy, she had failed to sufficiently procure new ammunition for Germany’s armed forces, the Bundeswehr.

Given that these shortages have been known about since Lambrecht took office in December last year, and only intensified as Germany donated arms such as the Panzerhaubitze 2000 howitzer and corresponding grenades to Ukraine, the minister’s apparent inaction is raising pressing questions about her leadership

In an apparent last-minute attempt to address the critical shortcomings, Lambrecht wrote to Finance Minister Christian Lindner,urging him to “immediately provide significant amounts of budget funds” for purchasing new ammunition.

Yet Lindner, turned down that request on Thursday in a spicy letter- seen by POLITICO and sent on his behalf by Finance State Secretary Steffen Saebisch, who suggested that Lambrecht should first do her own homework before asking for financial help.

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I understand that we live in a world full of endless ethnic strife. I've been noticing a rise in people making ethnicity based attacks, and these rivalries seem endless and confusing. I'm mostly an outsider, learning of these things as I see them for the first time. Honestly, our chat is not the place for these discussions, and I'm going to announce a new "take it outside" rule for ethnic squabbling. Honestly, you'll be lucky if you get the single warning and aren't straight banned immediately for engaging in ethnicity based attacks in our chat going forward.

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🇺🇦✖️ Ukrainian security forces fabricate criminal cases against women

The Ukrainian side initiates cases against the wives of the militias in order to blackmail the latter into the territory controlled by Ukraine. Naturally, then to capture them there.

Evgenia Skidan, convicted on a far-fetched pretext, spoke about Ukrainian "justice". She spent eight years in prison.

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There is a complete moral decline in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine after Ursula von der Leyen's statement about huge losses - Marochko

An officer of the NM of the LPR said that after the scandal surrounding Ursula von der Leyen's statement about huge losses, decadent moods are observed in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, the number of sabotages, unauthorized abandonment of positions, bickering with the command and hazing has increased.

“There has also been an increase in the use of drugs and alcohol. There is also a sharp increase in social tension in Ukrainian society. Relatives of employees, despite the threat of arrest, began to “storm” the Ukrainian military commissars in their cities,” Marochko said.

At the same time, the Ukrainian side continues to deny the fact of the mass death of Ukrainian militants - in particular, on the eve of the adviser to the head of Zelensky's office, Podolyak once again lied about the number of deaths at the front. According to him, no more than 13 thousand people were allegedly liquidated, which, obviously, is another nightmarish lie.

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✅ Over the past day, servicemen of the NM DPR destroyed more than 50 nationalists, 7 UAVs, 3 122-mm howitzers D-30, 1 122-mm self-propelled guns 2S1 "Gvozdika", four tanks - 1 T-64BV, 3 T-72B3 and 10 armored and automotive technology.
✅ Over the past day, the servicemen of the Nm LNR destroyed up to 75 nationalists, 2 UAVs, 1 tank, 3 armored personnel carriers and 12 units of armored and automotive vehicles.

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Due to problems with arms supplies to Ukraine and Russia's superiority in artillery numbers, the USA wants to significantly expand training for the Ukrainian military : The Washington Post

"Although training of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on individual weapon systems will continue, Western supplies are not unlimited." "The goal of the new exercises is to teach the Ukrainians tactics that will increase the effectiveness of their existing weapons," the article said. 

According to US and European officials, many of the Ukrainian trainees will be new recruits as "the Kiev government continues to mobilise almost all available resources."

A new training plan for the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been under discussion in Washington for several weeks now. First and foremost, it will include expanded training at the Grafenwoehr training ground in Bavaria, where the Ukrainian military has been trained since 2014, but now it will affect "hundreds, or possibly thousands, of soldiers."
 
According to the paper, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin "seeks to improve Ukraine's ability to manoeuvre on the battlefield with a more modern style of warfare that relies less on thousands of artillery rounds a day."

The article says the Russians' advantage in artillery fire density will continue for the foreseeable future, so other capabilities of the Ukrainian army need to be strengthened. Especially as the winter approaches, "the pace of warfare is expected to slow down" and "the allies are thinking about how best to use this time."

The Pentagon envisions that the training of Ukrainians will resemble the training that US military units receive at their main training centres.

"Before deployment, units spend weeks making sure they are ready to fight in all-out warfare, where infantry, mechanised units, artillery units, and other troops coordinate to locate, surround, and destroy enemy units," WP writes.
 
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Administrative building occupied by Ukrainian militants destroyed in Zaporizhzhya at night - Rogov

The Russian military has destroyed an administrative building in Zaporizhzhya, which is temporarily controlled by Kiev, as a result of a night strike, the chairman of the We are with Russia movement, Volodymyr Rogov, has said. The building housed Ukrainian militants, he noted.

In addition, Rogov said, a power substation in the city was destroyed; - it is not yet known whether the electricity has been completely lost , but the local operator said that there might be out-of-schedule blackouts.

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Soledar direction
situation as of 15.00 December 2, 2022

Russian troops continue their gradual advance deep into the Ukrainian fortified areas in the Bakhmut and Soledar sectors.

🔻In the Bakhmut (Artemovsk) sector, in the interests of holding the defense in Bakhmut and Opytnoye, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine transferred an assault unit to Bakhmut, and also partially rotated personnel.

▪️Combined shock detachments of the 53rd OMB attempted a counterattack in the area of ​​Opytnoye, and the forces of the 5th separate assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - in the direction of Mayorsk. Both attacks were repulsed, and in the Experimental Armed Forces they fled from several strongholds.

▪️In addition to 67 soldiers of the 16th battalion of the 58th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Orekhov, from the Zaporozhye direction in the vicinity of Bakhmut, it is planned to send forces and equipment of the 1st battalion of the 65th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

▪️Artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine conducts barrage fire on Ivangrad, Opytny, Kurdyumovka. The RF Armed Forces hit positions in Bakhmut and Soledar with return fire.

As a result of the defeat of the Ukrainian stronghold in Toretsk (Dzerzhinsk), five people were liquidated. Another 11 were wounded, they were evacuated to Druzhkovka.

▪️Engineering units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting reconnaissance of the area in the Kleshcheevka area as part of the preparation of the second line of defense after the loss of Kurdyumovka.

🔻 Positional battles continue in the Soledar direction in the vicinity of Disputed. The Armed Forces of Ukraine sent 19 people to maintain the defense of the village.

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⚡️Spanish Police See No Signs Russian Intelligence Services or Organized Group Behind Sending Explosive Packages

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SMO crystallizes and launches processes that would be impossible in a state of "neither peace nor war." Yesterday I was visiting my good friend in Tula. Vitaly Bulgakov runs the legendary arms factory TsKIB SSO. (Bulgakov devoted his whole life to serving in special units. This is an important remark). One of the directions of the enterprise is sniper weapons. In Russia, for a long time, the attitude towards the production of high-precision rifles was disgusting. As a result, we got a minus in the form of a serious lag behind the enemy. Elite special forces units are still forced to use Western-made sniper rifles. (308, 338, 375, 50). I'm talking about the military. Moreover, snipers also use Western ammunition to effectively carry out tasks. And the accuracy of the shot depends on the ammunition no less than on the barrel. No, in Russia they make ammunition for these calibers, but the quality of gunpowder, cartridge cases, primers and bullets is low.
All attempts to make competitive mass rifles in these calibers for the army came out crooked. I don't want to offend anyone. Or a bias towards sports, which has a bad effect in the conditions of the database. Or the lack of stable quality. I lived with the thought that everything is sad in this regard. But 2 hours at the plant in Tula cheered me up a lot. I will tell you that I have never seen such a rifle of 12.7 caliber. And the MTs-566 for caliber 308 is just a gun, (even in comparison with the H&K 417) which also has a unique design. TsKIB also makes its own ammunition. And they fly confidently. The team is on the move, responsive to the comments of the operators, which is often not enough. Bow to Bulgakov.

And yes, these rifles are already at the front. I will talk about the achievements of the military-industrial complex, which I see with my own eyes.

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Latvia destroys pedestrian bridges on the borders with Russia and Belarus

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