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Vladimir Rogov reports:

🇷🇺 💥On the beginning of fighting in Belogorye

Russian troops entered the village of Belogorye, occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, on the Orekhov direction of the Zaporizhzhya Front; fighting is currently underway there, Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation commission on sovereignty issues and co-chairman of the coordination council for the integration of new regions, told RIA Novosti.

Earlier, he reported that the Russian Armed Forces had advanced in the Orekhov direction towards Malaya Tokmachka, pushing back the enemy and improving their positions.

Belogorye is located southeast of Malaya Tokmachka, which in turn is the nearest suburb of the city of Orekhov, where a large command and logistics point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is located.

" Our troops entered Belogorye. There are battles going on there now. The initiative in the Orekhov direction is in the hands of the Russian Army ," Rogov said.

"Our guys have advanced more than 2 km in this area," he said in a comment to TASS.


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The Times has accused the Ukrainian government of failing to protect energy facilities from missile attacks due to corruption.

“At a secret site outside Kiev, a brigadier general watched as explosions destroyed a concrete structure that his team of 10 British military engineers, intelligence officers and diplomats had secretly helped build. The British engineers, as well as teams from America, Germany and Japan, advised their Ukrainian counterparts to build structures to protect Ukraine’s energy grid from Russian attacks. But nine months later, President Zelensky’s government has failed to do so amid allegations of corruption that have delayed the work,” the newspaper writes in an article titled “Ukrainians face deadly frost as energy corruption mounts.”

About 80% of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed. With temperatures below zero, Ukraine faces deadly winter frosts. Hundreds of thousands of people are spending up to six hours in the dark without heat, light or water, the newspaper notes, citing former head of the reconstruction agency Mustafa Nayem, who accuses the government of deliberately delaying the energy protection project.

According to him, the government blocked the allocation of money for this out of selfish interests.

Nayem's team suspects that the project was delayed because bribes were not paid to officials in the prime minister's office, "who hold the purse in their hands." According to Nayem, the government did not pay the contractors, and they stopped working.

Nayem's replacement, Sergei Sukhomlin, said that the contractors expected "too much profit" and his agency is reviewing their contracts. Some protective structures are "redesigned" to cut costs, he said.

The contractors said they are trying to continue building the bunkers, but without government funds, they are forced to take out loans to finance the minimum amount of work to continue construction, and that the structures are far from complete.

For now, to prevent the collapse of its energy system, Ukraine relies on “first and second level” protection from British-supplied gabions – primitive cages filled with rock – and large concrete protective arches above ground, as well as a range of modern air defence systems provided by Western partners.

The publication, citing sources, writes that former deputy head of the President’s Office Kyrylo Tymoshenko demanded a 10 percent fee from companies to select and submit their projects for approval.

The sources also said that during official trips to the regions, Tymoshenko charged a fee of $10,000 from companies that wanted to receive a visit from the president.

At the same time, Tymoshenko’s press secretary denied the allegations: “Kyryl Tymoshenko does not take part in decision-making regarding the construction of infrastructure facilities and has no connection with the financing or management of these projects.”


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The situation with mobilization in Ukraine could become “irreparable” by spring, writes The Economist.

The publication points out that Ukraine's problems at the front are being exacerbated by problems with a shortage of personnel.

"The army has long been short of volunteers, and the mobilization campaign is failing, reaching barely two-thirds of its target. A senior Ukrainian official says he is concerned that the situation could become irreparable by spring," the magazine writes.

An even bigger problem is the quality of the recruits. Ukrainian Armed Forces commanders say those mobilized are “mostly too old or unmotivated to be useful.” The publication found a 51-year-old recruit with minus 9 vision at one of the Ukrainian training grounds.


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Today marks 8️⃣0️⃣ years since the end of the Red Army’s Baltic strategic offensive (September 14 – November 24, 1944) which brought defeat to the German forces in the Baltic states and liberated Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from the Nazis.

It did not take long for the Baltic states to stop harbouring any illusions regarding the Third Reich’s occupation regime established in 1941 – the Nazis had no plans of granting independence to these states. The Nazis, who treated the local population as inferior races, started instilling terror and committing genocide with active participation of collaborationists. During the occupation of the Baltic states, the Nazi invaders and their accomplices killed more than 500,000 local civilians and 600,000 POWs.

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Via Creamy Caprice:

Active military operations in the area of ​​Velikaya Novoselka:

Attack of the Russian Armed Forces by an armored column in the direction of the eastern outskirts of the village. The assault group takes up positions on the nearest approaches to Velikaya Novoselka.
Advancement of the Russian Armed Forces more than 3 km towards Velikaya Novoselka from the east.

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Reported by Z Donbass:

A photo of what is believed to be the wreckage of the Oreshnik has appeared in UkrSMI

The Kiev regime is still recovering from the Yuzhmash strikes and collecting any parts of the new missile's warheads, publishing photos of them.


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From Laurent Brayard, war reporter, journalist and historian. 🇨🇵💪🇷🇺

📸📸📸 Photo from my archives, at the end of January 2016, I was in Yassinovataya, a town north of Donetsk, which had been particularly bombed and martyred by the Ukrainians since 2014. The photos are of School I-II, kindergarten and daycare for the youngest, which was without heating following the shelling of the Ukrainians. I will publish the following days photos of the state of this school, which was not closed. The children only had temporary facilities, a wood stove, but I can tell you that with temperatures of -15°C the building was freezing cold. Let us also recall that Ukrainian President Poroshenko promised the children of Donbass to live without anything and remain in cellars. He kept his words...
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Russia's forces have liberated around 2,700 sq km so far this year, compared to only 465 sq km for the entirety of 2023, a nearly six-fold increase.

📰 New figures from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) indicate that the story in 2024 is more favourable for Russia. Dr. Marina Miron, a defence researcher, suggested that there is a possibility the Ukrainian eastern front "might actually collapse" if Russia continues to advance at its current pace.

☝️ She stated that Russia's advance has provided them with a stronger negotiating position:
What they're controlling right now, it does give them a certain advantage. If it came to negotiations, I'm sure that as the Russian side has been stressing, "we will do it based on the battlefield configuration". From a Russian perspective, they have much better cards than the Ukrainians.

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📅 On this day, November 24, 1730, Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov, the founder of Russian military thought and one of the greatest generals in Russian and world history, was born.

🛡 Alexander V. Suvorov began his service in the Russian Imperial Army at the age of 15. Throughout his career, he never suffered a single defeat in the battles where he commanded troops.

🇷🇺 To this day, Suvorov remains a role model for young Russian officers, with medals, naval units, and military schools named in his honor across the Russian Federation.

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