The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on January 08 2023

Russia claims 600 Ukrainian troops killed in strike on Kramatorsk

Russian retaliation operation. One blow destroyed 600 Ukrainian servicemen

Ukraine denies Russian claim it killed hundreds of soldiers

Retaliation for Makееvka.

In response to the Kiev regime’s criminal strike in the first minutes of January 2023 against the temporary deployment point of Russian military personnel in Makееvka, Donetsk People’s Republic, the command of the United Group of Russian Forces carried out a retaliatory operation.

Over the past 24 hours, Russian reconnaissance assets uncovered and reliably confirmed through several independent channels the temporary deployment of the AFU military personnel in the city of Kramatorsk.

There were over 700 Ukrainian military personnel in dormitory No. 28 and over 600 Ukrainian military personnel in dormitory No. 47.

As a result of the massive missile strike on the said places of temporary deployment of the AFU units more than 600 Ukrainian servicemen were killed. (from) Russian Ministry of Defence

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More than 600 servicemen have been killed in a rocket attack on Ukrainian troops’ temporary deployment sites in Kramatorsk – Russian Defence Ministry

According to the ministry, the temporary deployment points of the Ukrainian military in Kramatorsk were opened during the day. There were over 700 servicemen in dormitory No 28 and over 600 in dormitory No 47.

 
The struggle continues between the Office of the President (Ze/Yermak) against Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny.
Another public emphasis in his evening address was made by Zelensky on the figure of General Syrsky, who is being trained to replace Zaluzny. About this, we and many colleagues in the telegram got inside and did whole analyzes.
All this is done for a reason. The constant PR of Syrsky by Zelensky and the Office of the President as a whole is a long-term strategy to nurture their player to replace Zaluzhny, whom Bankovaya is trying in every possible way to “merge” or set up, to shove some future jamb on him at the front or in the army.
The quiet war and internal intrigues in Ukraine continue, this may eventually play a “cruel joke” in the Ukrainian crisis, when intriguing functionaries play politics chasing ratings and can “break wood”. 

Ukraine has already lost, will not be able to achieve the withdrawal of the Russian army from Crimea and Donbass – Myśl Polska
▪️”Ukrainian goals are unrealistic. No one can even think that Russia, in any case, will leave the Crimea and the” Eastern Corridor “together with the Donbass,” writes Peter White.
He noted that Kiev constantly talks about the proximity of victory, but in reality Ukraine is suffering heavy losses.
Russia, according to White, “is in good economic condition” and is able to finance its own army, while the costs of Kiev are borne by the West.
▪️ Bottom line, Peter White noticed it
the conflict in Ukraine will quickly end if the United States does not supply Ukraine with ammunition for just one week.
“Ukraine has already lost this war, they just forgot to tell it,” he summed up

As 2022 drew to a close, the fascist Ukrainian regime took steps to ban churches affiliated with the Moscow Patriarchate.

A final service was given on 31 December 2022 at the historical church of Kiev-Pechersk.  Kievans crowded the service to farewell their church and pray for its return. Note the resonance and symbolism in the the congregation’s words “Christ is risen, truly risen!”.

On 04 January 2023, faithful and priests were prevented from entering the church, as the holy site was seized by the Ukrainian government.

The main temple of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra was seized by dissenters before Christmas.

Nikita Mikhalkov in one of the episodes of his authoring programme Besogon (casting out demons):

“I came across one prophecy. It was written by monks of Sviatogorsk Lavra. It says that reunification of Russia will happen in exactly six months, as soon as heretics and dissenters seize the Kyiv-Pechersk and Pochayiv Lavra. Most importantly, this prophecy was transmitted in 2014, when one could not yet think of what is happening today.”

Battlefield Ukraine Belarus Invasion rout

Russian aviation arrived in Belarus for tactical flight exercises of the two countries

Russian aviation forces have arrived in Belarus to participate in the upcoming joint tactical flight exercises of the air component of the Regional Grouping of troops of the two countries from January 16 to February 1. This was reported by the Belarusian Defense Ministry on Sunday.

“An aviation component from the Aerospace Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has arrived in the Republic of Belarus today,” the press service of the ministry reported.

The transfer of Russian military to Belarus is intensifying, the monitoring group “Belarusian Gayun” testifies.

Over the past two days, at least 1400-1600 soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces could have been transferred to Vitebsk, observers say. “An additional confirmation is that on the evening of January 6, soldiers of the RF Armed Forces were seen in different parts of the city, walking in groups of several people and visiting shops,” Belaruski Gayun writes.

The military arrived in recent days in trains of 700-800 people each.

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A new Russian offensive is likely to take place in the Zaporizhzhya direction, a GUR(Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine) representative has told Corriere della Sera   

Vadim Skibitsky said that an increase in the intensity of attacks is expected between spring and summer. No offensive is expected from the Belarusian side yet.
Skibitsky also said:
▪️Russia is stepping up pressure on the DPR.
▪️The Russian army will try to stop our counteroffensive in the Kharkov direction.
▪️The Russians are strengthening their positions in the Russian-controlled part of the Kherson Region, as well as in Crimea.
▪️There could soon be a new Russian army attack on Ukraine’s infrastructure amid dropping temperatures.

The defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Soledar is crumbling like a house of cards.

In a few days, the system of defensive positions crumbled, which were occupied by units of the 28th mechanized and 17th tank brigades. During their flight, five more strongholds were abandoned. Many wounded and dead. A sharp cooling significantly complicated the already critical situation. There is nothing to take out the wounded. There are numerous cases of frostbite and hypothermia. No one even thinks about the removal of corpses in these brigades.

Morale fell to a minimum even in units that were considered the elite of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Yesterday, in the Soledar region, junior officers and soldiers of the detachment of the Special Purpose Center “West” (the former 8th separate regiment of the Special Forces of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine) refused to carry out a combat mission.

The Ukrainian command tried to rectify the situation by sending more than 20 units of various Western-made lightly armored vehicles on trawls. However, almost all of these armored vehicles turned out to be technically faulty, and the cold snap made their use for counterattacks completely unsuitable. The manpower reserves in this area at the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are also practically exhausted.

The most savvy Ukrainian military understand the hopelessness of their situation and leave the Soledar area in small groups.

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The previous morning, Wagner fighters knocked Ukrainian forces out of the village of Podhorodne in the northeast of Bakhmut, and the clearing of the area continued throughout the day.

The settlement’s occupation not only deprives the enemy of supply and retreat along the Bakhmut-Slaviansk highway but will also allow the “musicians” to develop an offensive on the northern district of Bakhmut and strengthen the onslaught on the north-east of the city.

The “Orchestra” units are already fighting in the northeastern part of the city on Trudovye Reserve Street. The enemy also used chemical weapons there, resulting in respiratory and mucous membrane burns to stormtroopers.

Assault troops are also advancing toward the waste disposal plant on Fyodor Maksimenko Street.

Fierce fighting continues in the southern suburbs – in the village of Opytne, as well as near the town of Kleshcheyevka to the southwest of the city.

The enemy is trying to hold back the stormtroopers with all its might on the Bakhmut and Soledar lines.

Zaluzhny will obviously try to repeat what he did last spring and autumn. First, at the expense of meat (the losses of the Ukrainian in the spring and summer of 2022 are monstrous), stop our troops, then strike with newly formed and completed brigades. In September, he succeeded in doing this, the monstrous mistakes of the command and the huge shortage of personnel allowed the Armed Forces of Ukraine to win near Balakleya and Izyum, we gave away the border regions of the Kharkov region as a bonus.

Now 3 new corps being formed in Ukraine, which will be equipped with at least Bradley infantry fighting vehicles in an amount much larger than 50 pieces, I also think a couple of hundred more tanks, MRAPS, short-range air defense systems, etc. will be added to them, should, according to Kiev’s plan, break through our front, make a deep envelopment, destroy our troops in the boiler and at least take Svatovo with Starobelsk or Melitopol. It is for this that thousands of crests are now dying near Bakhmut / Soledar, Kremennaya and Svatovo.

The rear of the enemy is working at full capacity (the rear of Kiev is practically the whole of Europe and the USA), the personnel are being prepared at an accelerated pace and most likely by April the corps will be transferred to the direction of the main attack. I really hope that we have drawn conclusions from the defeats of the autumn and this time we will drown the hulls of the Ukrainian in his own blood.

Yes, no matter what the critics say, but Wagner near Bakhmut and Soledar is now doing the most important things, namely, destroying the enemy’s personnel, knocking out his military units and formations. Bakhmut, having become a point of attraction for forces, grinds Ukrainian replenishments in his meat grinder, which, unlike money and even equipment, are not endless.

As an option to stop the war, Ukraine is being offered the “Korean scenario,” said Alexei Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.

(This scenario includes the division of territories without signing a peace treaty and a political settlement, but with the actual cessation of the war, as happened with North and South Korea, which were divided along the 38th parallel).

“We are now being offered the Korean version. The so-called conditional “38th parallel”. Here are such Ukrainians, and here they are not such Ukrainians. Russians will now invent anything. I know for sure that one of the options that they can offer us is 38 parallel,” Danilov said on the air of the telethon.

He reiterated recent claims that Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Kozak is now negotiating this in Europe.

According to Danilov, Kozak “goes to meetings with politicians of the past in Europe and conveys messages through them that they (the Russians – Ed.) are ready for many concessions in order to fix the status quo that exists from today and force us to We’ve reached some kind of truce.”

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In the east of Ukraine, where the fighting is going on, low temperatures have been established. According to the Hydrometeorological Center, it is now in the region of 14-16 degrees below zero.

At the same time, until January 12, it will gradually warm up, but even then at night it will be frost to -9.

This means that the ground will freeze to move heavy equipment.

“We are expecting an intensification of hostilities. Frosts hit, at night down to -17, our heavy equipment will finally be able to move forward faster. But do not forget that the weather still favors both us and the Russians,” the governor of the Lugansk region wrote in his telegram channel Gaidai.

Cold will also cause an increase in energy consumption. DTEK Executive Director Dmitry Sakharuk has already informed about possible blackouts not only during the day, but also at night due to cold weather.

The Ukrainians( officials and supporters of the Kyiv regime) are ready to sacrifice themselves for the Western Empire. They are ready to kill their civilians, destroy their society and infrastructure, and destroy years of development for Biden, Stoltenberg, Nuland, Macron, Soros, and others. They want to drag the entire world into this conflict; they want another world war and a nuclear catastrophe, and they’re proudly giving interviews on Western media about how they are ready to kill everyone on earth. They realise that a nuclear war with Russia can destroy the whole planet, but they say, “But that’s what we face now or later.”
Remember, we and our governments are sending billions of dollars for this disaster, which will ultimately destroy us and our families. 

Special operations, 8 January. Main:

▪️Russia has carried out a retaliatory operation for Kiev’s strike on the Russian military’s temporary deployment site in Makeyevka: a massive missile strike in Kramatorsk has killed more than 600 Ukrainian militaries, the Russian Defence Ministry said;

▪️The Russian military in the areas of special operations observed the ceasefire along the entire line of contact from 12.00 on 6 January until 24.00 on 7 January, the Defence Ministry said, noting that at the same time, the Ukrainian forces continued to conduct intensive shelling of populated areas and Russian positions;

▪️ Fifty Russian servicemen who had been threatened with death there have been returned from Ukrainian captivity as a result of negotiations, the Russian Defence Ministry said;

▪️ Russia’s air force has shot down five Ukrainian air force aircraft in 24 hours;

▪️ Two thermal power plants (TPPs) were damaged as a result of the shelling of Novy Svet and Zugres settlements in the DPR by Ukrainian troops, the JCCC reported;

▪️A criminal case has been opened over the explosion of a gas pipeline in Lutuhyno in the LNR under the article “sabotage.”  The explosive device detonated near a gas pipeline in the LNR, according to preliminary data, had a yield of about 500 grams of TNT equivalent, the regional police said.

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